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The slow and delicate aircraft taking on spy missions

Most military spying is conducted from satellites hundreds of miles above the Earth’s surface.

But there’s a new entrant in the old game of keeping an eye on your strategic opponents, and this new spy is surprisingly sluggish.

Phasa-35 moves so slowly it can appear to be going backwards.

This weird, elongated British aircraft is powered by small electric engines attached to elongated wings encasing solar panels. These capture power during the day and keep the two engines turning at night.

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