{"id":8928,"date":"2021-11-08T08:57:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T11:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=8928"},"modified":"2021-11-08T08:57:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T11:57:43","slug":"darpa-recupera-un-dron-gremlin-en-el-aire-por-primera-vez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=8928","title":{"rendered":"DARPA recupera un dron Gremlin en el aire por primera vez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Por primera vez, la Agencia de Proyectos de Investigaci\u00f3n Avanzada de Defensa (DARPA) recuper\u00f3 un veh\u00edculo a\u00e9reo no tripulado X-61 Gremlin en un C-130 en vuelo, marcando un hito en el esfuerzo del ej\u00e9rcito de EE. UU. para desplegar enjambres de drones desde una nave nodriza.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 jQOUvm body-paragraph body-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 For the first time, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recovered an unmanned X-61 Gremlin air vehicle to a C-130 in flight, marking a milestone in the U.S. military\u2019s effort to deploy swarms of drones from a mothership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 jQOUvm body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The first successful midair Gremlin recovery took place Oct. 29 at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, DARPA said in a Friday release. The agency noted that this flight test \u2014 the fourth deployment of the Gremlins \u2014 involved two of the small drones, which successfully carried out all formation flying positions and safety features.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 jQOUvm body-paragraph body-paragraph\">While one Gremlin was recovered, the second was destroyed during the flight tests, DARPA said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 jQOUvm body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The Gremlins team then refurbished the recovered drone and flew it again within 24 working hours, the release said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H4T6Vr4a1hY\" width=\"784\" height=\"442\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>DARPA hopes the program \u2014 named for the imaginary, mischievous creatures that World War II-era pilots blamed when their aircraft or equipment malfunctioned \u2014 will one day allow the military to launch groups of small sensor-laden drones from bombers, cargo planes or smaller aircraft such as fighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 jQOUvm body-paragraph body-paragraph\">DARPA envisions the motherships will stay out of range of enemy defenses, but the drone swarms would fly into danger and conduct missions such as intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance or electronic warfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 jQOUvm body-paragraph body-paragraph\">After the mothership collects the drones and brings them back to base, ground crews would get them ready for another flight within 24 hours, DARPA said in a 2018 report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 jQOUvm body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The agency hopes each drone would have a lifetime of 20 flights. The agency said flying these relatively disposable drones would allow the military to accomplish missions much more cheaply and with less maintenance efforts than relying on nonexpendable systems meant to fly for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 jQOUvm body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cThis recovery was the culmination of years of hard work and demonstrates the feasibility of safe, reliable airborne recovery,\u201d Lt. Col. Paul Calhoun, the Gremlins program manager in DARPA\u2019s Tactical Technology Office, said in the release. \u201cSuch a capability will likely prove to be critical for future distributed air operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 jQOUvm body-paragraph body-paragraph\">Previous attempts to conduct airborne retrievals of the Gremlins were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2020\/12\/11\/the-first-nine-attempts-to-retrieve-swarming-gremlins-drones-failed-heres-whats-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unsuccessful<\/a>. In October 2020, DARPA kicked off a series of flight tests in which it tried, but failed, nine times to recover three Gremlins. DARPA said at the time those attempts were each inches away from working, and all Gremlins safely parachuted to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 jQOUvm body-paragraph body-paragraph\">DARPA released a video of the successful recovery that showed the Gremlin latching into a docking bullet that extended from the C-130, folding its wings into its body and then being gripped by a recovery arm that took it into the C-130.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 jQOUvm body-paragraph body-paragraph\">This time, four flights were conducted, during which hours of data \u2014 including information on air vehicle performance, how contact worked during the airborne retrieval, and the aerodynamic interactions between the Gremlin and the C-130\u2032s recovery bullet \u2014 were collected, the release said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 jQOUvm body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cAirborne recovery is complex,\u201d Calhoun said in the release. \u201cWe will take some time to enjoy the success of this deployment, then get back to work further analyzing the data and determining next steps for the Gremlins technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 jQOUvm body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The Gremlin drones are made by Dynetics, a subsidiary of Leidos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuente:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/unmanned\/2021\/11\/05\/darpa-nabs-gremlin-drone-in-midair-for-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>https:\/\/www.defensenews.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Por primera vez, la Agencia de Proyectos de Investigaci\u00f3n Avanzada de Defensa (DARPA) recuper\u00f3 un veh\u00edculo a\u00e9reo no tripulado X-61 Gremlin en un C-130 en&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8930,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions\/8930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}