Lockheed Martin's Maple-Leaf UAV Helicopter Is Too Much Fun for Spying

Proof positive that working for a scary-ass defense company can be fun: the Samari mini monocopter. It's a research project to develop an innovative unmanned spy drone, sure. But it also looks like the fun hybrid of a boomerang and an RC copter.

From what the folks at BotJunkie can work out, this device is the latest development in a Lockheed Martin defense project, also dubbed Samari, that dates back several years but was apparently canceled back in 2009. That aircraft was much larger, so...