Hybrid drone takes off like helicopter and fly like plane

Futuristic hybrid drones with both a helicopter and airplane mode are set to revolutionise warfare, experts claim. Engineers have unveiled an ambitious new concept for adaptable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which are so agile they can take off and land like a helicopter and still fly like plane. Experts believe the drones of the future, which will alternate between fixed-wing flight and rotary-wing flight, could be deployed by soldiers in the next few decades. The new technology concept – named Adaptable UAVs – can alternate between the two different flight modes in the same mission. When in rotary wing mode the UAVs can be launched and recovered from battlefields and can also hover and achieve vertical take-off and landing.