An AT&T flying COW drone demonstrated at the carrier’s Bedminster, NJ, facility and in Redmond, WA aims to help speed disaster recovery efforts. While readers may be familiar with using the COW acronym to mean “cellsite on wheels,” this COW is a “cell on wings.”

The Flying COW was created by AT&T in connection with FirstNet, the nationwide mobile broadband first responder network, funded in part by the U.S. government, that AT&T is building nationwide. The Washington test was conducted by University of Washington engineering students and included LTE test traffic.