The CIA’s amazing bots

[wraggster]

When you have a virtually unlimited budget, you can pull off some amazing things. This has become most evident recently as the CIA has been showing off some of its old tech. That dragonfly you see above is near life-size and actually flies. They hired a watch maker to build a tiny internal combustion engine to run it. That alone is pretty amazing, but this thing was actually flying in the 70′s. Upon further inspection of the wings, we actually have no idea how this sucker is supposed to fly. Despite our skeptical viewpoint, you can see a tiny clip of it flying after the break. You can also catch a video of “charlie” the robot catfish.
[via Botjunkie]
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[VampDude]

There was mention of something like this in Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory.

I think it flies via being shot, the CIA have been playing with flies and other insects for the past three or more decades.