The U.S. Air Force’s Rapid Dragon program has carried out its first live fire test on Dec. 16 and the Air Force Research Laboratory has revealed how the project got its name.
Rapid Dragon is a literal translation of the Chinese word 急龙. It was an ancient crossbow that appear from 950 AD. Called 急龙车 by literary writers, it can fire off 12 crossbow bolts using a single trigger.
As for the first live fire test, it was executed from a MC-130J flown by an Air Force Special Operations Command operational flight crew. The next test will be from a C-17 in Spring 2022.
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