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Rapid Dragon
Our Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office’s Rapid Dragon is taking palletized munitions to the next level. Watch to learn more about how this system is testing the feasibility and operational advantages of airdropping long-range, palletized munitions form exiting airlift platforms. Lockheed Martin courtesy video, shown at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber (ASC) Conference.
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Led by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office Rapid Dragon is a palletized munitions experimentation campaign exploring feasibility and operational advantages of airdropping long-range palletized munitions from existing airlift platforms, such as the C-130 and C-17, without aircraft modifications.
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