As the Pentagon gears up for the possibility of a war with China over Taiwan, it’s grappling with a thorny problem: how to get supplies across thousands of miles of water to U.S. forces battling an enemy with an arsenal of long-range missiles designed to destroy lumbering American cargo planes and ships.
Grid Aero believes it has a solution: split up the cargo across a fleet of cheap, small, autonomous airplanes and make it a losing proposition economically to shoot them down with $1 million to $2 million anti-aircraft missiles.
Plenty of Silicon Valley startups are trying to pitch the Department of Defense on new ways of moving troops and…
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