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New Bird Shaped Drone Shown at Security and Defense Trade Show

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-a-birds-it's-a-plane-it's-big-brother dept.

garymortimer writes "SHEPHERD-MIL, a UAV which looks like a native bird with the same flight performance, will be featured at HOMSEC 2013. This UAV is characterized by the glide-ratio and noiseless motor that make it invisible, silent and unobtrusive in sensitive missions. SHEPHERD-MIL is equipped with cameras and geolocation software. The system is especially suitable for border surveillance missions, firefighting, and anti-drug trafficking operations amongst others."

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  1. Firefighting? by Mr2cents · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would you disguise a UAV as a bird if you want to use it for firefighting? Also, it's just a press release infomercial, some guys want to put their hand in the military money jar so they put some feathers on a remote controlled airplane. Awesome... not!

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  2. Can we leave the birds out of this? by Jeremi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Birds have enough problems without being always shot at on sight because they might be spies.

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  3. Re:Hyphenation by hairyfeet · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And having dealt with crazy paranoid stoners more than once can you guess what is gonna be the outcome? A shitload of dead birds as the paranoid drug runner takes out every bird in the sky "just in case"..

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