US military developing insect surveillance drones

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PressTV.ir

Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:58PM GMT

File photo shows an insect-sized spy drone.

File photo shows an insect-sized spy drone.
 
Reports indicate the US military has poured huge sums of money into surveillance drone miniaturization and is developing micro aircraft which now come in a swarm of bug-sized flying spies.
 

According to various internet sources, a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in conjunction with the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Arlington, Virginia, is helping develop what they are calling a micro aerial vehicle (MAV) that will undertake various espionage tasks.

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