UAVs do battle with the troops

April 23, 2006

'The US military has tested a system that helps soldiers to move faster and further into enemy territory while maintaining contact with their commanders via a UAV-enabled communications network.

The system, developed by Northrop Grumman and the US Office of Naval Research, uses a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) UAV to send voice, data and video messages to troops in the battlefield.

Soldiers at the spearhead of military operations can often move much faster than the support units that provide them with communications infrastructure.'

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