Fire Scout and UAV news.

[Lightbringer]

You know, I don't mind using tech to keep soldiers out of harm's way, but I also worry about leaning too heavily on machine crutches. Like the passengers in Wall-e or the Dahleks, we are going to end up as gelatinous blobs unable to even wipe our own bums without our machines to do it for us if we don't watch out.

-Light

[tkobo]

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/K_MAX ... s_999.html
Im starting to really like this one also,but it is a tad bit bigger from what i understand...

@light -They will just have to increase the calisthenics

[tkobo]

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Securi ... 298909671/

"This was a great opportunity to witness the pairing of the LCS with Fire Scout because it represents what the Navy will use for future littoral security missions,"

[tkobo]

http://www.popsci.com/technology/articl ... real-thing
You were worried about skynet before, know true fear now.Skynet now has it "air-pooping" squadrons.....They will swoop in and poop on you , and theres nothing you can do to stop them

[Rhyus]

Thats amazing although a bit worrying at the same time.

[tkobo]

http://www.popsci.com/technology/articl ... y-position
Now the seagull pooper squadrons will be able to target specific people Better start saying nice things about skynet ....because it still remembers all those bad things you said about it

[tkobo]

this is taking this further off topic,but word is the navy has set up the fast track purchase for 80 -100 unmanned carrier launched stealth bombers.The purchase is to be completed by circa 2018 to 2020.

Word is the uav has already been picked,but opinions on which one vary.It could be the sea avenger,which is an advanced version of the predator.

[tkobo]

http://www.reuters.com/news/video/story ... =187012362
Is the other uav speculated for the above 80-100 purchase...

[tkobo]

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/North ... d_999.html

...new single-day flight record of 18 hours...

[tkobo]

http://www.dodbuzz.com/2011/05/17/navy- ... cout-uavs/
Turns out the nay wants firescouts so much, they are buying them from the army

and

http://www.azorobotics.com/news.aspx?newsID=1451

..MQ-8B Fire Scout UAV developed by Northrop Grumman on April 12th 2011 set a single day flight record of 18 h while flying for anti piracy missions ...

[tkobo]

Navy contract for circa 168 has been finalized,and a new upgraded version is in the works also.

[tkobo]

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Helic ... s_999.html
Firescouts are being used in lybia,and one has been lost.Also some other news in the article.

[tkobo]

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/X_47B ... r_999.html

[stephen]

Here are some european ones:

The EADS Barracuda
http://air-attack.com/page/75/EADS-Barracuda.html

And Dassault nEUROn
http://air-attack.com/page/73/nEUROn-UCAV.html

[tkobo]

an article i recently came across claimed over 50 nations now use uavs,and over 30 were now designing their own.