Ultra-Endurance Dirigible Airdrome for MAV Swarming
It's time for the US military to consider swarm micro air vehicle robotic warfare.
I propose an ultra-endurance long-range dirigible type blimp situation.
I'd like to see this aircraft in the shape of a flying wing, perhaps no faster than 65 knots, before the coefficient of drag goes hyperbolic.
The blimp would be filled with micro air vehicles or MAV's, perhaps 1500 of them, small model airplane type UAVs which could loiter over the battle space, flying hand grenades if you will.
Not all of them would have explosives.
Some of them would have very inexpensive microelectronics, digital video cell phone like devices to take aerial pictures.
Even some others would go and loiter, perhaps even stop on a tree branch and wait, maybe days, feeding information as needed, and soaking up a little solar energy to keep the batteries going.
Why do I believe we need this? Because I don't believe a two-bit terrorist is worth a $.
42 machine gun round, that's why.
And they certainly aren't worth risking a human life or an American soldier to go and hunt them down.
Once the ultra-endurance dirigible "airdrome" concept reaches its destination it would climb up to altitude and continue circling around.
It would also have solar cells, and it could stay up there for days, just hanging around giving a bird's eye view of the battle space perhaps a 10 mile range, as a mother ship.
When it was time to go home, the ultra-long-range dirigible airdrome would then fly very slowly and at a low level allowing the in-flight pickup of all of the MAV's through a suction method.
The MAVs would line up in front of its path, and as they got close it would suck them in to the cargo hold.
The ultra-endurance dirigible airdrome would then fly back to the base, perhaps 2000 or 3000 miles away land on a normal short runway where all the MAV's would go down a repair assembly-line to make sure they worked good again.
Anything that was in the battle space and broken for some reason, those electronics would dissolve, therefore there is no way the enemy could learn how to make them, or use them for their own purposes.
After all we don't want those microelectronics be used for IED's for instance.
Well, that is the blimp airdrome concept for MAV swarming in the battle space.
Please consider all this and think on it.
If you'd like to look at some drawings and sketches I do have those available - got clearance?
I propose an ultra-endurance long-range dirigible type blimp situation.
I'd like to see this aircraft in the shape of a flying wing, perhaps no faster than 65 knots, before the coefficient of drag goes hyperbolic.
The blimp would be filled with micro air vehicles or MAV's, perhaps 1500 of them, small model airplane type UAVs which could loiter over the battle space, flying hand grenades if you will.
Not all of them would have explosives.
Some of them would have very inexpensive microelectronics, digital video cell phone like devices to take aerial pictures.
Even some others would go and loiter, perhaps even stop on a tree branch and wait, maybe days, feeding information as needed, and soaking up a little solar energy to keep the batteries going.
Why do I believe we need this? Because I don't believe a two-bit terrorist is worth a $.
42 machine gun round, that's why.
And they certainly aren't worth risking a human life or an American soldier to go and hunt them down.
Once the ultra-endurance dirigible "airdrome" concept reaches its destination it would climb up to altitude and continue circling around.
It would also have solar cells, and it could stay up there for days, just hanging around giving a bird's eye view of the battle space perhaps a 10 mile range, as a mother ship.
When it was time to go home, the ultra-long-range dirigible airdrome would then fly very slowly and at a low level allowing the in-flight pickup of all of the MAV's through a suction method.
The MAVs would line up in front of its path, and as they got close it would suck them in to the cargo hold.
The ultra-endurance dirigible airdrome would then fly back to the base, perhaps 2000 or 3000 miles away land on a normal short runway where all the MAV's would go down a repair assembly-line to make sure they worked good again.
Anything that was in the battle space and broken for some reason, those electronics would dissolve, therefore there is no way the enemy could learn how to make them, or use them for their own purposes.
After all we don't want those microelectronics be used for IED's for instance.
Well, that is the blimp airdrome concept for MAV swarming in the battle space.
Please consider all this and think on it.
If you'd like to look at some drawings and sketches I do have those available - got clearance?
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