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Skywalker used at Westpoint!

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Tactical UAV design earns cadet team multiple awards

 

Mike Strasser, West Point Public Affairs

WEST POINT, N.Y., May 11, 2011 — Soldiers sometimes operate in remote locations where maps are either outdated, or lack adequate resolution. Mission success could weigh heavily on whether a unit relies on low-quality resources or waits indefinitely for higher-quality imagery.

A team of West Point cadets worked on this problem and developed a senior capstone design project which garnered three awards in recent weeks. Class of 2011 Cadets Mike Weigand, Anthony Rodriguez, John Rollinson and James Raub built STITCH, or “Supplying Tactical Imagery to Command Headquarters,” a low-cost, lightweight, fully autonomous unmanned aerial system.

 

http://www.suasnews.com/2011/05/5497/tactical-uav-design-earns-cadet-team-multiple-awards/

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  • I'm still waiting for Afghans to try to make flying IEDs. Note the try. Although a claymore is only 3.5lbs...
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    They got a few complete Skywalker kits to play with, and was not send from HK, but very near. hehe.

    I guess it's just to know what possibilities is out there.

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    I love it. Just now US front line troops will be ordering low cost military gear directly from a cheap supplier in Hong Kong directly to their fire base on an Afghan mountain top...
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