The soldiers of 16th Combat Aviation Brigade, 7th Infantry Division's Task Force Raptor officially uncased their colors during a Transfer of Authority ceremony at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan ...

Back in 2016 we saw researchers take inspiration from birds to produce a feathered drone with unique capabilities. The team has continued refining this design to introduce more moving parts ...

Using light materials, they created raptor-like bones and joints to make the wings and tail and fashioned them onto an equally light body and then covered them with foam feathers.

U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor, tail number AF-07-4146, went skidding down the runway on its belly at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada after a botched takeoff attempt in April 2018.

"Raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 28 October 2020. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 10 / 201028143122.htm>.