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Title: SPAWAR launches Drones over San Diego aka: Predator B's
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NBC SanDiego
URL Source: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/9372518/detail.html
Published: Jun 15, 2006
Author: gothink3
Post Date: 2006-06-15 23:32:34 by gothink3
Keywords: drones, SPAWAR, Predator B
Views: 213
Comments: 5
New Tool In Maritime Surveillance Launched Image Quality Good Enough For Court, Companies Say SAN DIEGO -- Drones launched off the San Diego coast Wednesday demonstrated how new imaging technology will make shipping lanes safer. Images: New Tool In Maritime Surveillance Launched The new technology, created by Lockheed Martin and General Atomics, allows drones to patrol hundreds of square miles of ocean, NBC 7/39 reported. The imaging technology is so advanced that it can identify people on-board ships. Lockheed Martin and General Atomics say the image quality is good enough to be used in a courtroom prosecution. "We can take very good high-quality pictures and (get) information from ranges and distances where they don't know they're being observed," said Jim Courtright, of Lockheed Martin. "We can also do electronic signature comparison. If there are radiating radars, we can tell who they are and where they are." Drones equipped with the new technology are being called Predator B's. The drones launched Wednesday were controlled from the SPAWAR complex on Pacific Highway. Lockheed Martin says the technology has applications from everything to homeland security to search and rescue.
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#1. To: gothink3 (#0)
Thanks for posting, welcome to 4 I don't suppose these drones could lookout for illegal crossings.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. – James Madison
I sure as hell hope someone with a hacktorate is wiring together a good performance model airplane with a long loiter time and simple pattern recognition software to consider these drones "prey" when the need arises...
"To wield onself -- to use oneself as a tool in one's own hand -- and so to make or break that which no one else can build or ruin -- THAT is the greatest pleasure known to man! To one who has felt the chisel in his hand and set free the angel prisoned in the marble block, or to one who has felt sword in hand and set homeless the soul that a moment before lived in the body of his mortal enemy -- to those both come alike the taste of that rare food spread only for demons or for gods." -- Gordon R. Dickson, "Soldier Ask Not"
We should have an almost endless supply of geeks for this kind of thing, when the need arises.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. – James Madison
hi, gothink. welcome!
I suppose we could follow old-dude's example and start building our own V-1's. "I'm pretty sure that I have you out-gunned"
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#5. To: Axenolith (#2)
I sure as hell hope someone with a hacktorate is wiring together a good performance model airplane with a long loiter time and simple pattern recognition software to consider these drones "prey" when the need arises...
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