Sea Power, April 1st, 2003
The sea services muster unmanned aerial vehicles for growing list of missions
Somewhere in the Middle East, a unit of Marines is preparing to head into a village. Not knowing if they are about to hit friend or foe, one of the Marines pulls a five-pound piece of equipment out of his backpack.
It is called the Dragon Eye, and is about the size of a buzzard. The Marine hooks this unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, to a slingshot, and off it goes. The Dragon Eye soars over the village, its cameras and antennas beaming images of the village back to a handset the size of a small laptop. Armed with t...
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