DARPA’s Shepard plan will adapt IARPA’s ultraquiet ducted-fan Wonderful Horned Owl (left) into a stealthy hybrid-electric powered unmanned aircraft.

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Number of X-planes have ever led instantly to an operational plane. Several of the systems they pioneered have uncovered their way into output plane but normally immediately after a hole of numerous many years, even decades—an interregnum regarded as the “valley of demise.” Shepard to fly stealthy hybrid-electric powered unmanned…