Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Here Comes The Drones (The Minituarized Versions That Is)



U.S. Air Force Developing Terrifying Swarms Of Tiny Unmanned Drones That can Hover, Crawl And Even Kill Targets -- Daily Mail

* Air Vehicles Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, is already developing prototypes of tiny drones that can hover
* The Micro Air Vehicles will work in swarms to provide complex surveillance of a battlefield
* They can also be armed with incapacitating chemicals, combustible payloads or even explosives 'for precision targeting capability'

The U.S. Air Force is developing tiny unmanned drones that will fly in swarms, hover like bees, crawl like spiders and even sneak up on unsuspecting targets and execute them with lethal precision.

The Air Vehicles Directorate, a research arm of the Air Force, has released a computer-animated video outlining the the future capabilities of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs). The project promises to revolutionize war by down-sizing the combatants.

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My Comment: The possibilities are endless .... but I can easily see the day when miniaturized drones will do the scouting, locating the enemy, and exercising lethal force for the soldiers who are on patrol, at their FOBs, or waiting for the enemy to show up.

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