One Pound Unmanned Aircraft Perches Like a Bird
The US army must have some serious gadget fans on staff, as evidenced by the news that they just greenlit for production of a 1 pound reconnaissance aircraft that will -they hope – soon be able to not only follow targets, but perch like a bird and perform additional tracking and targeting duties.
The Persistent, Perch and Stare Air Vehicle System (SP2S) is being built upon AeroVironment’s Wasp platform. A similar UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) kicked off the movie Eagle Eye, and was featured in our article <>Top 10 Movie Gadgets of 2008.
What price tag can you put on fun? Apparently $10 million Washingtons.
If tests pan out the program will be refined and expanded. Why do spies get all the cool toys?
Read the full Wasp SP2S Summary.
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