DARPA Moves on Revolutionary “WIGE” Seaplane for Marine Cargo Transport
Breakingdefense.com reported that Pentagon’s premiere research agency is moving forward with an effort to build an unusual kind of plane—a marine craft that flies using the “wing-in-ground-effect” (WIGE) principle that, if successful, will rival the lift of the Air Force’s storied Globemaster, but cost half the price. That’s “if the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency can get right what the Soviet Union got wrong.” Dubbed the “Liberty Lifter,” DARPA says the seaplane will serve as...
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