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LOCUST Launcher Fires A Swarm Of Navy Drones

Birthed into the sky with all the fanfare of a soda bottle pop, the drone swarm took flight from its metallic silos. One drone every second, until the whole swarm is airborne. Pop, pop, pop, this is the future of war, according to the Office of Naval Research. "LOw-Cost Unmanned aerial vehicle Swarming Technology", or LOCUST, as the program is known, is an evocative acronym, immediately bringing to mind biblical retribution against Pharaoh and countless other famines wrecked by the flying, grain-hungry insects. The military program is modestly less sinister.

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