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".… ...full story at the register (uk)
from the register (uk) on Fri, Sep 05 2008
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DARPA whirly-wing jet gyrocraft hits noise snags » the register (uk) 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.… |
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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.… |
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Pentagon Launches Secret 'Gandalf' Project » digg Darpa, the Pentagon's far-out research wing, is launching a new, classified effort to find enemies by the phone they use. It's called Gandalf. Announced yesterday by Darpa, the program's program's goal is to employ "set of handheld devices" to track down... |
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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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DARPA in Tom'n'Jerry robo-brain quest » the register (uk) First they came for the mice; and I said nothing Pentagon boffinry chiefs are on the verge of inking a deal which could see US forces equipped with "neuromorphic" imitation brain modules, each potentially as intelligent as a cat.… |
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