Smithsonian Gets Military UAVs

NetworkWorld is reporting that a new exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is featuring some of the military's more prominent UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). In addition to the vehicles themselves, a large number of supporting technologies are also on display. "Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used by all four military branches for missions ranging from reconnaissance and surveillance to attack and each branch is represented in this exhibit: Predator, DarkStar, X-45A (Air Force); Shadow 200 (Army); Dragon Eye (Marine Corps); and Pioneer (Navy)."

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Re:Slashdot on a military roll

[Anonymous Coward]

The Nazis would have steamrolled Gandhi.

No need, already been done, sorta

[Anonymous Coward]

http://diydrones.ning.com/

The have tips, hints, and plans, even include where to get the gps and other nav boards, and software with autopilot capability. Its all pretty interesting stuff. If I had free time Id probly try one myself.

Tm

Re:Slashdot on a military roll

[turgid]

That reminds me, Gandhi had a contemporary who advocated India joining up with Nazi Germany in WWII to defeat the British. He had quite a sizable following.

Goodness only knows what would have happened had Gandhi not been successful.

Re:Slashdot on a military roll

[shmlco]

"Anyway in a ST world France wouldn't exist anyway since if you weren't willing to do service in the military you pretty much were bred out of the human race since "Civilians" were only allowed to have 1 child per couple."

Got a reference for that one? As I recall, in the book you needed military service in order to gain your franchise (the ability to vote). Everyone had to serve for a limited period in som fashion (e.g. public service), but only military service conferred the vote.

So if you wanted a say in how the country was run, you had to prove that you had its best interests at heart by also being willing to die for it.

The ulimate "put your money where your mouth is" clause.