US Army Is Developing Solar-Powered Combat Aircraft

The US Army is looking to the future and its researchers are trying to build solar-powered winged vehicles for combat and surveillance. The new combat aircrafts will destroy the enemy target without any damage to the environment (if that’s possible) and they will also prevent the army from destroying friendly or non-hostile targets.

The solar-powered aircrafts are called Swarming Micro Air Vehicles, or SMAV, and they will create a network which leads to SMAVNET Project at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. SMAVNET stands for Swarming Micro Air Vehicle Networks for Communication Relay, and the Micro Autonomous Science and Technology Center will test this technique.

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