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Fahey, Jonathan

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Forbes Asia vol. 5 no. 12 (Jul. 2009), page 40-43.
Topik: Spy Equipment; Airplane; Iraq; Afghanistan; US Military

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A maker of tiny spy drones used in Iraq and Afghanistan is trying to add lethal firepower and altitude to its profitable business. Aerovironment, a monrovia, California company, set the world record for altitude in 2001, when it flew a gangly, remote-controlled, solar-powered plane with a 250-foot wingspan to 96,863 feet. The sky is dark up there, and the air is thin, just one-hundredth the density of air at sea level. Profits are thin there, too. AeroVironment hoped to make that plane, called Helios, into a cheaper version of a telecom satellite. That hasn't panned out yet. So the company instead makes most of its money closer to the ground, selling planes with 4-foot wingspans that fly at 500 feet. Small enough to fit in a soldier's backpack and outfitted with cameras that feed real-time video in color of infrared to a handheld screen, these drones have quickly become cherished equipment to soldiers searching for terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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