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From blimps to bugs, an explosion in aerial drones is transforming the way America fights and thinks about its wars.
Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds. Read the full article by ELISABETH BUMILLER and THOM SHANKER on the New York Times web site, where Wright-Patterson AFB was recently featured.
Please see the last paragraph for mention of AFIT's Advanced Navigation Technology (ANT) Center. Chang W. Lee for The New York Times has provided images in a slideshow. Pay special attention to slides 10, 11, and 14.