As part of the Air Force’s Skyborg initiative, a new, unassuming player takes flight – the Gremlins. These compact drones, born from DARPA’s visionary Gremlins program, with their sleek profiles with elongated wings, are launched from the belly of a colossal mothership.These Gremlins are designed for more than just a single sortie. After executing their missions with precision, they return to their aerial point of origin, not to rest, but to be re-armed and redeployed. This remarkable capability of mid-air recovery and re-launching, once deemed near-impossible, is now a reality, thanks to the ingenuity of programs like Dynetics and the strategic foresight of DARPA.Equipped with an array of payloads, from sensors to electronic warfare systems, they are not just tools of reconnaissance but also of tactical dominance. As they swarm the skies, they locate and engage their objectives with one last ace up their sleeve; smaller, but no less impressive…–