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  • Watch a Cargo Plane Snatch a Drone Right Out of the Sky Mid-Flight

    Watch a Cargo Plane Snatch a Drone Right Out of the Sky Mid-Flight

    Andrew Liszewski

    Last month, an unpiloted X-61 Gremlin drone was successfully retrieved by a specially modified-Lockheed C-130 cargo plane while both were still flying. The achievement, which you can see a video released last Friday by DARPA (the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency), promises to dramatically increase the operating range of these types of aircraft.