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2021-09-01 Science & Technology

Check Out the United States Army's New Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Plane

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 What good does ISR do if you can't act on it.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-01 01:15|| 2021-09-01 01:15|| Front Page Top

#2
The Augmented Reality update is due in a few months.

/sarc

Posted by Dron66046 2021-09-01 01:35|| 2021-09-01 01:35|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ You can see what you want to see, even call a strike on it, and report a humongous victory.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-09-01 01:36|| 2021-09-01 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Just in time to use it against the US population.

Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-09-01 01:39|| 2021-09-01 01:39|| Front Page Top

#5
Maybe good for a 2nd/3rd world situations.
Provided it is not seen by a person carrying a CCP/Russian Mobile Shoulder Fired STA.

But for civilian tracking. The US Intel/Fed's have Internet monitoring sites, Cellular access points and down-looking Sat's that make a KH-12+ look like a toy for many years now.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-09-01 09:18|| 2021-09-01 09:18|| Front Page Top

#6 how many of these did we leave for the Talibs?

Posted by Warthog 2021-09-01 09:41|| 2021-09-01 09:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Considering the 2nd world disappeared 30 years ago, I rather doubt we will be using this drone against the Soviets and their satellite countries.

Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-09-01 11:59|| 2021-09-01 11:59|| Front Page Top

#8 it is also woke trans compliant it can pee fuel in mid air into its own hole pick one or both and refuel itself!

Posted by Sluse Grealet9429 2021-09-01 14:46|| 2021-09-01 14:46|| Front Page Top

#9 this new aircraft would replace the existing platform which is several decades old

https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/guardrail-common-sensor-grcs/

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-09-01 19:49|| 2021-09-01 19:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Slap a Gatling gun on that baby, add some hardpoints for bombs and you got yourself one fine Close Air Support/ISR airplane. The beancounters will think they died and went to Heaven. Multi-role, Multi-mission, baby!

Posted by SteveS 2021-09-01 20:52|| 2021-09-01 20:52|| Front Page Top

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