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2004-03-26 Israel-Palestine

IDF unveils new miniature surveillance planes

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Posted by CrazyFool 2004-03-26 12:48:26 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Actually, the American Border Patrol, a private group, has built and deployed three UAVs so far, and they're proving effective in identifying unlawful border crossers. The big problem is getting Border Patrol agents to do something about it. Now if we could get about 5000 former Marines and Army types organized into a "Retired Militia", sanctioned by the US government, and give them a bounty of say, $25 a head for all they catch and detain, maybe we could STOP the stupidity on our southern border.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-03-26 6:03:09 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-03-26 6:03:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Anonymous TROLL 2004-03-26 8:24:18 PM|| 2004-03-26 8:24:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Any Old Crows around here will remember those Bekah Valley drone deployments in the early 1980s. During that time I crashed a few Mirassou library tastings with Messieurs Addington and Campbell in attendance. Trust me, way back then America already had the ability to alias inbound aircraft return signatures so that they resembled patchy fog or a flock of birds. Even early stealth fighters had the radar cross-section of a BB

Israeli RPV (Remote Piloted Vehicle) preflight sorties up the Bekah back-fed nearly realtime telemetered recon of source guided lock-on frequencies, tracking system light-ups, target painting wattage and vital jamming bandwidths. Even today, few low-grade militaries can afford the agile frequency-hopping VCOs (Voltage Controlled Oscillators) needed to outwit advanced targeting systems.

Israel's new generation of miniature drones benefit substantially from Sony Walkman era rare earth magnets and selectively plated printed motor windings. Compact multiaxis laser gyros are a bit of help as well. But these mini-drones are merely Hollywood style flying minicam platforms that have been repackaged into small form factor composite material micro-aircraft.

The most significant evolution of all is occurring in the area of hovering reconnaissance. Third generation miniature drone technology is a modern day equivalent of early mosaic array stare-down satellite technology at a mere fraction of their original cost.

Posted by Zenster 2004-04-05 9:40:59 AM|| 2004-04-05 9:40:59 AM|| Front Page Top

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