Upgraded video gives UAVs "constant stare" over 1.5 square miles
By next year, the Pentagon plans to dramatically upgrade the video capabilities of its most advanced UAVs, allowing a single aircraft to monitor "nearly everything that moves within an area of 1.5 square miles," according to the Los Angeles Times. Reaper aircraft currently equipped with a single video feed soon will carry 12 and eventually could boast 65. By 2011, a single UAV will be able to monitor three square miles, allowing the U.S. to "project power without vulnerability," according to one Pentagon official.
Los Angeles Times | 11/02
This story published in AIA dailyLead on 11/04/2009
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