DARPA is launching ICARUS a project to develop drones capable of vanishing into thin air after delivering their payload to remote regions.
The agency envisions a number of scenarios to use the device. Troops can deliver food and medical supplies to difficult-to-reach disaster affected regions and not worry about recovering the vehicles.
The single use drones can also shuttle supplies to remote military units and vaporize without a trace.
“Vanishing delivery vehicles could extend military and civilian operational capabilities in extenuating circumstances where currently there is no means to provide additional support,” said VAPR and ICARUS program manager Troy Olsson.
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The agency envisions a number of scenarios to use the device. Troops can deliver food and medical supplies to difficult-to-reach disaster affected regions and not worry about recovering the vehicles.
The single use drones can also shuttle supplies to remote military units and vaporize without a trace.
“Vanishing delivery vehicles could extend military and civilian operational capabilities in extenuating circumstances where currently there is no means to provide additional support,” said VAPR and ICARUS program manager Troy Olsson.
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