Having identified a solution to issues that have so far prevented the successful airborne recovery of an unmanned aircraft under DARPA’s Gremlins program, Dynetics plans to resume flight tests in the ...

Dynetics believes it gained enough data from a July flight test of its X-61A Gremlins unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to next time achieve a closer soft docking to the recovery aircraft than the 38 m ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Dynetics are shifting their focus in the Gremlins programme to aerial recovery of the X-61A demonstrator after completing the device’s ...

A seven-year-old DARPA program has passed a historic milestone in aviation autonomy, showing for the first time that a small, intelligence-carrying drone can be recovered inflight by another aircraft.

DARPA’s Gremlins program is targeting additional tests of the X-61A vehicle later this year after meeting several primary objectives during risk reduction flights at the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving ...