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2005-03-14 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Steve 2005-03-14 8:54:03 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Cool. I was wondering how the micro's were working out. If the troops want 'em, that's good enough for me.

Posted by .com 2005-03-14 10:56:10 AM|| 2005-03-14 10:56:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Kick ass! 80 minutes on a charge, too--not bad at all. Sounds like they need to improve the landing/recovery bit somehow though--like get the troops a big butterfly net or a volleyball net to snag it!

$25,000 / 200 avg uses = $125 per use, which isn't really so bad I guess--and the good parts can be cannibalized. But they can do better!

I expect in a few years we'll be having hunter/killer versions of these gunning down other UAVs as they get lighter and cheaper! Maybe I could be a 'virtual ace' by developing the algorithm to perform Immelmans, barrel rolls, etc. that generates the most kills. ;-)

Posted by Dar 2005-03-14 11:39:25 AM|| 2005-03-14 11:39:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Heh - Each morning, Odin, the father of the Gods, sends his two ravens: Hugin and Mugin out into the world to watch over the land.

Posted by Snung Snuth2112 2005-03-14 12:27:30 PM|| 2005-03-14 12:27:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting observation, Dar, regarding UAV aerial warfare.

That's how it started in WW I. I see no reason why the cycle would not start over.

Posted by Michael 2005-03-14 1:10:11 PM|| 2005-03-14 1:10:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 You're about 5 years too late to make a killing with those algorithms, Dar. A whole lot of work has gone into this field and continues to reach serious prototype / initial deployment capability.

Posted by Unagum Elmang5856 2005-03-14 1:16:49 PM|| 2005-03-14 1:16:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 BTW, you all *do* see how this helps solve the "size of the Army" problem, right?

Doesn't replace the need for boots on the ground. Does change the size of the force needed.

Posted by Unagum Elmang5856 2005-03-14 1:17:59 PM|| 2005-03-14 1:17:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 #6. I wonder what Willie and Joe would think of this new kind of ground pounding?

Posted by GK 2005-03-14 1:51:30 PM|| 2005-03-14 1:51:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 An important point, Unagum Elmang5856. I think Willie and Joe would be thrilled -- ever more pounding, but of the bad guyz, not of their own unhappy feet. And ever fewer are able to deal with ever more.

Snug, where does Bush fit into your cosmology? ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-14 4:28:29 PM|| 2005-03-14 4:28:29 PM|| Front Page Top

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