Technology is much more advanced nowadays, why not use that? I would envision a robotic arm that automatically collects UAVs when they approach sufficiently close to the mothership. The arm can be rather large and can be extended through rear loading bay.
> Technology is much more advanced nowadays, why not use that?
Is it though? I mean, it ostensibly is, at least on paper. Not so much in practice, though.
Maybe there is a cycle of expansion and contraction? In the 50s-80s we've pushed tech across all domains as far as we could, doing miracles. Then it got all scaled back in an attempt to optimize the most common use cases to be cheaper. If so, I can't wait for the next expansion phase.
Re:Gremlins
by angry_octet on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:53AM
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That was a film cannister, not hundreds of kilos of carbon fiber aircraft (and weapons).
Fly straight up, cut engines, fall ballistic. Maybe even add a parachute. The US recovered spy satellite footage in the 60s this way, with payload falling from space and being caught in-flight. So it should be workable today as well.