Drones Within a Drone Riding a Balloon

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 6, 2012 @08:17AM from the unidentifiable-flying-object dept.

smitty777 writes "Given the U.S.'s recent drone issues, what is the new recipe for sending a drone over another country of interest? Simple, just take a balloon and attach a Tempest drone to the bottom of it. Now, attach two more CICADA drones to that. The balloon climbs to over 55k feet, then drops the first drone, which can travel another 11 miles or so. It then deploys the CICADA drones. These unpowered gliders slip past radar undetected and start sending back information. There are future plans to mount many (count hundreds) of the CICADA glider drones to the Tempest in the future. The article quotes the flight engineer describing the process as 'straightforward.'"

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Re:I await the day by MichaelKristopeit501 · 2012-01-06 11:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

capitalization is the tool of the weak minded, used to aid their lacking reading comprehension. its use would do nothing to change the logical meaning of any of the statements that i've made. you're an idiot. you're also an Idiot, an IDIOT, and an iDiOt. you're also an IDioT. you're an IdIOt.
i assume you'll be an idiot some more, but i wouldn't be so ignorantly hypocritical as to suggest or command you to do it some more. you're an ignorant hypocrite.
cower in my shadow some more behind your chosen zodiac pizza based pseudonym, feeb.
you're completely pathetic.