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Anonymous ID: 8ef167 July 11, 2022, 7:46 p.m. No.16720001   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0026 >>0123 >>0210 >>0372 >>0432 >>0517 >>0555 >>0607

>>16719239 LB

nline flight tracking data shows that the operators of the extreme-endurance, high-flying Airbus' Zephyr S unmanned aircraft that is currently conducting a very-long-duration sortie flew routes over the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona today that traced out the number 26, the letters USA, and what appears to be the outline of the contiguous United States. Another part of its flight path took the drone over the Yuma Test Range and the resulting design may be intended to depict the Liberty Bell or the symbol for the mathematical constant pi. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/airbuss-zephyr-drone-looks-to-have-just-broken-a-huge-aviation-record>>16719950

Anonymous ID: 8ef167 July 11, 2022, 8:05 p.m. No.16720151   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0172 >>0257

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What else the Zephyr S has done and is still set to do in the course of this likely record-setting flight is not entirely clear. "This experiment is intended to test the UAV's energy storage capacity, battery longevity, solar panel efficiency, and station-keeping abilities," a spokesperson for the Army's Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing/Space (APNT/Space) Cross-Functional Team (CFT) office, part of Army Futures Command, previously told The War Zone, adding that the main focus has been on using the unmanned aircraft as a sensor platform. As we noted in our initial story on this drone's flight activity, the involvement of the PNT/Space CFT could also point to its potential ability to support future alternative navigation networks, as well as to act as an airborne communications and data-sharing relay node.