Project Butterfly
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The young couple figured out a way to make it work.{{Cite|AT|13}} | The young couple figured out a way to make it work.{{Cite|AT|13}} | ||
| - | Since the Navy officially | + | Since the Navy officially canceled the project by that point, |
| - | the resulting | + | and the new approach was radically different from Butterfly, |
| - | + | the resulting design was named '''Monarch'''; | |
| + | and the first prototype was called '''Swallowtail''' (both names of butterflies). | ||
| + | The new system was acquired by the US Air Force.{{Cite|MC|28}} | ||
Current revision as of 03:45, 22 October 2011
Project Butterfly was a project at Lambdatron for US Navy. The name didn't mean anything, it was just randomly assigned by a computer in the Pentagon. The idea was to use a powerful and narrow radio beam to disable enemy aircraft or missiles.
After a couple of years with little success, the Navy canceled the project. As a result, both the Navy and Lambdatron ended up losing money with no results; but even more, the company was losing some reputation as a result of the failure.
In May 1999 Stan Warshawski assigned Tanisha Chladek and Jon Chladek to work on it, as a last ditch effort to salvage the effort and the firm's reputation.
The young couple figured out a way to make it work.AT13
Since the Navy officially canceled the project by that point, and the new approach was radically different from Butterfly, the resulting design was named Monarch; and the first prototype was called Swallowtail (both names of butterflies). The new system was acquired by the US Air Force.MC28
