US army equipping soldiers with fleet of bird-like drones

The robotics company says US Army Rapid Equipping Force (REF) earlier this month awarded them $4.5 million in federal contracts to deliver 36 models of the drone to the US Department of Defense by December, RT reported.

The company’s Maveric unmanned aerial vehicle is a small drone that can be launched by hand and resembles birds.

The small UAV utilizes flexible wings, weighs about 2.5 pounds, and can speed up to 55 knots in the sky, which enables it to blend into its surrounding, Army News Service wrote. REF project manager Tami Johnson told Army News Service that the Pentagon’s request “called for a small, subtle capability that could be employed by a single soldier. ”Allen McDuffee at Wired’s Danger Room noted this week that the current fleet of US drones can be easily spotted and targeted in the sky. The solution is to forget about the military look and “make them look like birds,” McDuffee wrote. Read More:

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