With its nine cameras, they can keep an entire city in mind: The U.S. Army is testing a new type of drone that can monitor dramatically larger areas than previous models. The flying Super Spy will bring significant benefits to the military in the Afghanistan war. Berlin - Unmanned aircraft to film entire villages - you can see where people gather, such as from building to building, run through the whole city.Soldiers who are sitting far away from the scene are able to track these images live on small portable devices, between different locations back and forth between them - and adjust their decisions in the war on it. What sounds like science fiction, will be for the U.S. Army in a few weeks reality.
The Air Force is currently testing a new unarmed high-tech drones monitoring system - called "Gorgon Stare" - that should be in place this winter in the war in Afghanistan. The Washington Post reported, citing army officials on the details of the new technology: The system with nine video cameras attached to remotely operated while on an airplane or an airship.
Soldiers can therefore monitor the recording of an entire town on a device the size of a iPads, they can choose between different sections. In all, with "Gorgon Stare" 65 different images to different users can be sent. Technically, it's a huge development: The drones, with the U.S. Army currently operates, video recordings represent only a camera from a cut in the size of one or at most two buildings.
With the recent drones you see the war "as if through a straw," told the Washington Post, a military. "Now we can see everything." Military members praise the new super-drone, because it is so the enemy was no longer possible to understand, observe exactly what place the American forces.
More and more ground forces might in future be replaced by the high-tech drone. With the new technology to grow the opportunities, but also the amount of data. The challenge for the Army will be to filter out huge amounts of image material, the relevant passages. The Air Force will use therefore the know-how of TV channels, which must also handle large amounts of moving image.
Just as a sports reporter in the U.S. channel ESPN can live and quickly access a suitable, archived image series of actions on the football pitch and show the audience - that's how one analyst in Afghanistan in the future with the new system, the bombing of the last month in a specific Street View.
The military has, therefore, the technology of ESPN and a reality show studied. Analysts caution against assuming intelligence on the enemy continue to move only from video recordings. Without accurate knowledge, the only soldiers could get on the floor, the pictures are not worth much.
It would take more of the human classification of the observations. The U.S. military has long insisted on more modern technology, one must adjust the speed of the war. In fact, the need for surveillance drones in Afghanistan has increased rapidly. The deployment of unmanned aircraft, the U.S.
military have doubled in the past year, quadrupled since 2009. "Gorgon Stare" will not fly, but only in war zones, even in natural disasters could get the new technology used. The Home Office check the new technology, an industry representative, according to the Washington Post. "
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