Sanctions Or Not, Iranian Competition Yields Successful UAVs

garymortimer writes with word of the result from a high-tech student competition that doesn't come with sponsorship from DARPA or Mobil — far from it. Instead, the sponsors include "military and non-military organizations" within Iran. "In this competition, participants must provide a UAV equipped with a camera to search a 10 square kilometer area for at least 40 minutes to find 3 square meter marks on the ground with different English letters on them. Finding ground targets and reporting the geo location are criterion for choosing the contest winner." (This article updates another from last year, which gives some more details about the competition.)

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Re:if you were stuck in Iran..

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is it not accurate to compare? For example, I don't see Iran invading multiple foreign countries, killing tens or hundreds of thousands of people, or capturing, imprisoning, and torturing people from many countries without even minimal evidence of wrongdoing. How is hanging several homosexuals worse than this? Maybe the difference is that the US doesn't oppress white people, so it's ok.

So the more people you kill and torture

[Anonymous Coward]

the better it is? The numbers of atrocities by the USA is higher than that produced by Iran.

Or do you simply not care what happens to humans, *unless* they're gay?