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Technicalreporter Posted: Tue, Jan 20 2009 11:21 AM

Under a US Air Force contract, a team lead by System Dynamics developed an autonomous munition-deployed micro air vehicle (MAV) for bomb damage indication applications. This video is of the airborne deployment of the MAV. Contained within a modified MK20 bomb it is released from a Saab Draken and 35s after release a parachute-equipped dispenser housing the MAV is ejected from the MK20. The parachute decelerates the dispenser to release the camera equipped MAV. The MAV autonomously stabilises and enters a holding pattern to acquire a GPS signal.

 
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