Posted on 10/09/2008 4:19:47 PM PDT by Justice Department
Pterodactyls may have gone extinct millions of years ago, but a newly designed spy plane could bring the flying reptiles to life, albeit replacing blood and guts with carbon fiber and batteries.
"The next generation of airborne drones won't just be small and silent," the design team announced recently. "They'll alter their wing shapes using morphing techniques to squeeze through confined spaces, dive between buildings, zoom under overpasses, land on apartment balconies, or sail along the coastline."
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The Reaper can carry a combination of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, GBU-12 Paveway II bombs and GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munitions, to a total of about 1.5 tons. (The Predator, by contrast, can carry just 200 pounds, or a pair of Hellfire missiles.)
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