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DARPA’s Gremlins Test Flight Pushed Back Due to California Earthquakes

DARPA’s Gremlins Test Flight Pushed Back Due to California Earthquakes
The DARPA/Dynetics Gremlins test vehicle. (Image: Dynetics)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The first test flight of an autonomous vehicle built by Dynetics for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Gremlins program has been pushed back to later this year due to earthquake damage sustained at the Naval Air Station China Lake in California. The Gremlins team had scheduled its first flight of a test vehicle for early September, but must wait for the range to become available again following two earthquakes July 4-5, said Tim Keeter, Dynetics…

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