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It's only a few weeks into the new year, yet there's plenty happening in "UAV land" already. I expect another year of innovations, novel developments and groundbreaking firsts in unmanned aircraft.
This month's question: What’s a Skyborg? The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has awarded contracts to Kratos, Boeing and General Atomics to prove their approaches to the UAV program.
All three have fielded existing, company-developed drones which are intended to fly alongside and be controlled by the latest frontline U.S. fighter aircraft. The idea is to have expendable force-multiplier unmanned aircraft support the capabilities of high tech, hugely expensive aircraft in order…
