A Drone Helicopter That Can Land On a Moving Truck

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 20, 2011 @11:12PM from the perfect-for-the-next-terminator-movie dept.

garymortimer writes with a story (the accompanying video is worth watching) of an unmanned helicopter than can automatically land on a moving surface. Though it's shown landing on a bed of a moving truck, the real purpose is for sea-based use: "This automatic system for take-off, landing and deck-landing of UAVs is the fruit of the joint expertise of Thales and DCNS. Thales is responsible for the positioning system and its interface with the UAV system, the supply of a UAV demonstrator system and slaving of the flight path along a trajectory. DCNS is responsible for predicting the vessel motions, the harpoon system as well as the interface and integration with the vessel."

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Re:More war by Anonymous Coward · 2011-11-21 00:20 · Score: 0, Redundant

You are just jealous that the US's war-based economy is better than your war-based economy (given your user name, I'm assuming you are Russian). US military expenditure is 4.7% GDP; Russia's is 4.4%.

once they have enough robots to kill people all around the world, why do they need you at all?
The US has enough bombs to blow up the world already, what makes you think having robots will change anything?