Quantico episode ‘AQUILINE’ was actually a secret CIA project to develop military drones

November 7, 2016 by BollywoodPresents Team

‘AQUILINE’ is the title of one of the episodes of the second season of Quantico (featuring Priyanka Chopra). ‘AQUILINE’was actually a secret CIA project (in the late 60s/early 70s) to develop small, surveillance aircrafts.

Watch: Quantico 2×06 Promo “AQUILINE” (HD); the next task for the trainees is to decide on a drone strike.

A couple of unmanned aerial reconnaissance programs, operated by the CIA during the cold war, were responsible for the increased use of military drones (half-century later), according to newly classified government documents.

The two programs Aquiline & Axilla, were operational during the early 1960s, when mounting losses of U-2 spy planes convinced agency officials of the need for small, undetectable aircrafts capable of conducting limited flyovers and bombing sorties.

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