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Robotic Aircraft To Supply Troops

Posted by samzenpus on from the battle-platform-soon-to-come dept.

Cowards Anonymous writes "PC World reports on a prototype driverless aircraft designed to shuttle hundreds of pounds of supplies to soldiers in war zones. Dubbed a flying Humvee by Frontline Aerospace's CEO, the robotic vehicle can fly 600 to 1,000 miles carrying a full cargo of 400 pounds. It's about the size of a large SUV, weighing in at 2,400 pounds and measuring 21 feet long and up to 26 feet wide."

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  1. Re:My eyebrows are raised... by Tokerat · · Score: 5, Funny

    But, there's like, 12 cup holders in here...

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  2. Usual high flying business cruft by inflex · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone bothered to look at the massive composite photo they created with a few soldiers running out to the CG generated drone? You'd think for $4 million a pop they'd at least spend another $1000 to make the photos -look- realistic.

    I see quite a lot of these sorts of getups happening, someone gets some specs, waves their hands about, generates some crappy CG and utters a price of a few million. Couple of years later there's nothing really to show for it except some rudimentary framework and an empty office.

    Only wish I had gotten in there first ;)

    1. Re:Usual high flying business cruft by CopaceticOpus · · Score: 4, Funny

      Holy crap, the picture rocks:

      http://www.frontlineaerospace.com/images/stories/press_images/VSTAR_Resupply_1.jpg

      I can't even tell if it's supposed to be in the air or not. If it is, those two dudes are about to get crushed/pixelated to death.

      This is my new desktop background.

  3. Re:Carryall by negRo_slim · · Score: 3, Funny

    Melange = Oil, Interstellar travel = grocery runs to Wal-Mart...

    Hence why Iraq was important.. or something, where am I?

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  4. Sounds familiar by hyades1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I seem to recall that they had something like this before. Quite a bit faster. Very good at getting its cargo to the waiting soldiers. A bit rougher on the payload, perhaps (and the soldiers).

    I believe it was called a Cruise Something-or-other.

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  5. Well, I for one... by Agent__Smith · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, I for one would like to welcome our new automated remote controlled food toting flying overloards...

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    "It seems that we are at the age where life stops giving us things, and starts taking them away..." Indiana Jones
  6. Large SUV ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's about the size of a large SUV ... measuring 21 feet long and up to 26 feet wide.

    Yes, that's exactly the size of my Jeep.