Engineer Huang Shuilin hopes that the Swift Gazelle will become a widespread feature in Chinese daily life. It’ll probably also be a bit part of the PLA arsenal. The PLA, if it chooses to take a leaf from George Jetson’s book, would likely use flying cars for mountainous operations, air cavalry, Special Operations, and search and rescue. If the Swift Gazelle proves successful, China could take off in an area where America’s flying military car projects have been unable to advance past the testing stage. The DARPA military research agency has funded various similar projects, such as the Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) in 2009 and Advanced Tactic’s Black Knight, a flying small truck that also has side mounted rotors, which flew in 2014. You may also be interested in: China’s Robot Dog Takes a Walk China’s New Military Robots Pack More Robots Inside, Starcraft Style Chinese Autonomous Tanks: Driving Themselves to a Battlefield New Your? Are Weaponized ‘Crab Walkers’ the future of Chinese Land Warfare? “Da Gou” China’s Own Big Dog Robot China Shows off Cannon-Fired Drone New Inflatable Chinese Drones: Battlefield Balloons?
