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Military Funds Tiny Flying “Spy Hummingbird”

Posted by moezilla on November 30, 2009

“It looks like a hummingbird!” But it’s an unmanned military aerial vehicle with a 5-inch wingspan for which DARPA is providing a second round of funding!

The ’spy hummingbird’ weighs just 10 grams (about the weight of two nickels) and can perform “controlled hovering flight” using only an on-board power source and flapping its two wings…

This article appeared in the latest edition of H+ magazine.

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  • Polymorpheous
    guess i'll just have to shoot every hummingbird i see!
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