Pentagon retrocopter sent back to drawing board DARPA*, the Pentagon warboffinry outfit for whom the only field worthwhile is the left one, is having some problems with its "Heliplane" programme.… ...full story at the register (uk)
from the register (uk) on Fri, Jan 11 2008
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DARPA looking to verify imported military chips » the register (uk) Unscrewing the inscrutable DARPA*, the mad-as-a-bottle-of-crisps Pentagon warboffinry operation, has struck again - this time awarding a $13m contract to the University of Southern California to develop technology which will ensure that imported... |
| 26 Sep 07 |
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DARPA code teams compete on same K9 robot » the register (uk) Multiple-personality droid dog; mad science indeed DARPA, the Pentagon research bureau which likes to put the battiness back into battle-boffinry, is pressing ahead with its robot dog/packmule/mini-Imperial-Walker programme.… |
| 05 Sep 08 |
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DARPA funds radical disco-copter concept » the register (uk) Spinning-platter switchblade chopper takes wing Pentagon boffinry chiefs, not content with the existing panoply of wacky new whirly-copter concepts, are to fund still another radical rotary wing project - the "DiscRotor".… |
| 02 Jun 08 |
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DARPA's Heliplane retrocopter project in trouble » the register (uk) Fails to slip surly bonds of credit market Efforts by Pentagon tech chiefs to revive a long-neglected rotary wing aircraft type appear to have stalled, as the main contractor announced financial problems and sweeping layoffs.… |
| 19 Sep 07 |
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Hypersonic plane project confirmed by DARPA » the register (uk) Retro 60s tech unlikely to melt much tinfoil The US Air Force (USAF) has inked a deal with DARPA* - the famously luncheoning-elsewhere Pentagon boffinry outfit - to collaborate on a "combined cycle hypersonic vehicle that could take off and land like a... |
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