Air Force Making Bugs That Fly, Spy ; Wright-Patterson Involved in Development of Tiny Intelligence- Gatherers.

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WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- Imagine an unmanned aerial vehicle the size of a bird or even an insect, equipped with flapping wings so it could fly between buildings and even into rooms to gather intelligence about the United States' enemies.

Air Force Research Laboratory scientists have created a micro air vehicle team with goals of demonstrating the concept of a bird-size UAV by 2015 and a bug-sized one by 2020. The vehicles may not be ready for deployment by then, but they would be intended to support the Air Force's goals of being able to locate, target, assess and engage any potential enemy anytime and anywhere -- even inside a room, said Doug Blake, deputy director of the laboratory's air vehicles directorate.

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Air Force Making Bugs That Fly, Spy ; Wright-Patterson Involved in Development of Tiny Intelligence- Gatherers.

"You can envision scenarios where a thing I want to find would be i...

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