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Laser Powers Lockheed Martin's Stalker Drone For 48 Hours

Posted by samzenpus on from the power-up dept.

garymortimer writes "Lockheed Martin (LMT) and LaserMotive, Inc., recently demonstrated the capabilities of an innovative laser power system to extend the Stalker Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) flight time to more than 48 hours. This increase in flight duration represents an improvement of 2,400 percent. Stalker is a small, silent UAS used by Special Operations Forces since 2006 to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions."

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  1. Re:Finally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    a reason to have sharks with friggin laser beams on their head.

    repeating this tired old meme for brown-noser points is why you're a sheep-like fucktard.

    oooh nooo that sounded negative (and the FUCKIN TRUTH) let's mod him down because we only want fluffy bunny posts here. ball-less soul-less sons of bitches.

    after the first few hundred times or so it stopped being funny. you really think it's sooo hard to move on to greener pastures instead of repeating the same old jokes over and over again to feel like a member of the culture? why not invent new culture? why keep reiterating the old shit? aren't most of you geeks? don't you see the stagnation here?