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The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, put a Lockheed Martin/Boeing/DARPA RQ-3A DarkStar autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle on display in late August. The air vehicle, an FV-3, is the third of four DarkStars built. It was never flown, as the program was terminated in 1999. FV-3 is on permanent loan from the National Museum of the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. DarkStar, along with Predator and Global Hawk, formed the first generation of US Air Force unmanned reconnaissance vehicles in the mid 1990s. It was designed to be fully autonomous: take off, achieve target area, operate sensors and transmit imagery, and return and land without human intervention.
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