Raytheon recently tested the MALD Cargo Air-Launched System, a complex of racks attached to the cargo ramp of an airlifter, on a borrowed C-130. The racks could allow the Air Force to deploy cloud-like swarms of the smart, man-size missiles. In doing so, the MALD (pictured above) would become America’sfirst true swarming drone, and a potentially powerful countermeasure against ever-more-sophisticated enemy air defenses.
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