[NSRCA-discussion] HONEYWELL RPV

[Bill Glaze]

RPV's are revolutionizing the battlefield, as much as Helicopters did.  A friend of mine who flies/instruct/teaches maintenance was doing so in Morocco a few years ago, when the Yemeni's told him about a Volkswagen traversing a dry lake bed in Yemen.  The VW was loaded with known terrorists.  Ted had a bird overhead, and the VW in sight.  The  UAV had a Hellfire loaded on a hardpoint.  Ted was given the go-ahead to fire.  (Ted was seated in a Command and Control Trailer in Morocco, at the time.)
A wire guided missile designed to take out heavily armored tanks, was used on a VW beetle.
The result was deliciously satisfying.
Bill Glaze
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Gayer 
  To: General pattern discussion 
  Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 1:15 PM
  Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] HONEYWELL RPV


  Back in the early days of this program we had about 10 DA 50s that were never used for anything. I tried to get a deal on a couple of them but struck out. They are probably still sitting there.
  The first engineer in the video is an RC modeler, mainly involved in gliders as  I recall.

  Thanks for sharing the video

  John


  Dwayne Brown wrote: 
    Interesting UAV from Honeywell using some R/C products.  Dwayne



    http://machinedesign.com/video/honeywells-hovering-uav-1115

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