Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

The Wasp Micro Air Vehicle

Posted by samzenpus on from the small-pilots dept.

Victor Cheng writes "In developments that bring together a variety of technologies including robotics and digital imaging the Wasp Micro Air Vehicle is one of the Pentagon's latest tools currently in testing of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (although I'm thinking its not going to need a carrier to get this one up and flying). The 13 inch Wasp comes equipped with 2 video cameras, GPS and has a myriad of possible applications. Next time you hear something Buzzing around when you're at a family picnic you might think twice before swatting it could be an expensive action."

2 of 222 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Balance? by Threni · · Score: 0, Troll

    > They keep an army for those rare domestic reasons they might need one,

    That's what defense is all about. Your writing about the middle east makes it sound like the US is doing all it can to calm it down, rather than being by far the major cause of the problems there. Why not look into the last 100 or so years of history in the middle east, paying special attention to Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. You might learn something.

  2. Re:Balance? by Threni · · Score: 1, Troll

    > No doubt that is the reason for hitting Iraq and not N. Korea. But that is what
    > we *should* do.

    But why aren't you doing the same to North Korea? Clue: one of that pair of countries has nuclear weapons. Another clue: What natural resources does North Korea possess which would make it worthwhile performing another illegal occupation?

    > Most of the world is going the way of socialism, and just like comunism, once
    > you find yourselves in a huge mess, with dictators, mass poverty, and mass
    > graves

    America has propped up dictators around the world. It's those dictators which have largely been responsible for the deaths, poverty etc, and it's because of this that the majority of the population both in affected countries and in the rest of the free world dislike American foreign policy. Has this sunk in yet?

    Oh, and America is not noticably more free than Denmark, France, the UK etc.

    > America will be here with the torch of Liberty to show you the way home
    > again, and again, and again...

    Is that why you have laws demanding that libraries etc tell the state which books it's citizens have been reading? Sounds more like communist Russia or China to me! Still, you've got nothing to fear if you're not a Jew..sorry, Muslim.

    You got that torch of liberty from the French. It's not just recent history you're ignorant of, is it?!