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Pentagon announces hypersonic drone

Washington, USA - A brand new fighter jet

In the current alert possible terroristic attacks provoked, researches which want to realize more and more sophisticated arms go on. Through the US Defence Department Darpa (Defence Advanced Research Project Agency), Pentagon announced on Monday the project of a hypersonic drone. It is a plane able to fly without the pilot, and is a descendent of Predator, protagonist during the wars in Afghanistan...

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Rome, Italy, 08/14/2003 10:46
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