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MacGyver at Scale: Winning Future Air Wars of Rapid Technological Adaptation
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What we know
During a recent training exercise in the western Pacific, a small group of engineers single-handedly saved the day. In the scenario, adversary covert forces used first-person view drones to intercept American helicopters that were shuttling between austere forward island airbases.
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MacGyver at Scale: Winning Future Air Wars of Rapid Technological Adaptation
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