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DARPA's deep-sea sleeper drones fly out of the ocean

Submitted by Bob-45 on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 00:05
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Graham Warwick
Aviation Week
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:19 CST

Arguing it is costly and complex to send large numbers of warships to forward operating areas - and that the energy and logistics needed to deploy lower-cost unmanned systems over oceanic distances limits their usefulness - DARPA has come with another idea.

That idea is to pre-deploy "deep-ocean nodes" in forward areas years in advance. These would be commanded from a safe stand-off distance to launch to the surface and release waterborne or airborne unmanned systems to disperse and provide ISR or "non-lethal effects" over a wide area in contested environments.

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If They Spent Half The Time

Submitted by skippy d on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 01:38.

Coming up with ways to end hunger, pain, and suffering, or learning how to give love and peace worldwide, oh what a world it could be. Instead all they do is focus on death, greed, power and destruction. What evil bastards they all are.

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Skynet Baby

Submitted by Tman2000 on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 01:01.

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Really. All the crap. Present

Submitted by A-B--B-A on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 01:48.

Really. All the crap. Present day and in centuries gone by. What a load of crap. What a joke. Terrorists, terrorists, oh, my! Yes, they who fabricated the terrorists meme are the terrorists. Sickening. Those people need to be put away, leaving the rest of us, 99% of humanity, to live our lives.

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police state strides forward

Submitted by legalizeliberty on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 00:37.

What next?
Flocks of drones looking like pigeons?

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I have a retention pond

Submitted by bierdegarde on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 00:33.

In my subdivision. Should I be worried?

and THAT is supposed to be cheaper?

Submitted by NY4RP on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 00:32.

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This is basically like

Submitted by Virginian on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 00:29.

This is basically like putting missiles in Cuba. Except the missiles are unattended and someone can come in and scoop them up.

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Good grief

Submitted by Michael Nystrom on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 00:16.

What will they think of next? How about one big giant padlock for the earth. Just lock the whole thing up so nothing bad will ever happen again.

Sheeh.

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Reading this news should wipe

Submitted by A-B--B-A on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 01:11.

Reading this news should wipe away the last dot of doubt that all the crap in the world is a freaking farce. Our government has loooong been corrupted. Government is little more than a charade to curry favor for cover. Michael, I agree with you and Charlie Brown.

GOOD GRIEF.

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