Aircraft Carrier Helicarrier
The leadership of the Pentagon is hatching plans to create flying aircraft carriers-special transport aircraft, on board of which thousands of inexpensive combat drones-"gremlins"will be placed. The development of the project is entrusted to the research unit of the Pentagon DARPA.
According to the publication The Economist, in accordance with the project, the mother plane in the mission area will first launch a swarm of thousands of Gremlin drones controlled by the operator, and after its completion will collect them back. To collect the drones on board the aircraft, a special tape covered with an adhesive substance will be used, to which they will alternately stick. However, no one has yet managed to implement such a landing technique in practice. At first glance, flying aircraft carriers seem unnecessarily complex compared to their marine "counterparts". However, the military has recently expressed concern about the ever-increasing range of anti-ship missiles, in some cases already exceeding the range of carrier-based fighters, which makes aircraft carriers generally useless. According to the head of the Gremlin program, Scott Verzhbanovsky, swarms of relatively cheap UAVs are able to sow chaos in the enemy camp before they are destroyed.
