Military Robotics - Airborne
This is the second part of a two part episode on military robotics: UAVs or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles RQ-2 Pioneer: Israeli/American recon UAV RQ-1 Predator: American high endurance recon UAV, armed with Hellfire missiles RQ-4 Global Hawk: American high altitude recon UAV USV or Unmanned Space Vehicles Key Hole Series: Visual Recon Satellites Mentor Satellite Series: Audio communications espionage device Lacrosse Satellite Series: Visual Recon, can see through clouds and 10 feet of dirt GPS Satellite Series: Used by troops to pinpoint their locations Anti-satellites: Armed with nuclear weapons, used to bring down other satellites Anti-Anti-Satellites: Satellites armed with missiles to bring down anti-satellites SDI Laser Satellites: Satellites that shoot down incoming missiles For more information, read:http://science.howstuffworks.com/military-robot.htmhttp://www.spawar.navy.mil/robots/How to Make War by James F. Dunniganhttp://www.npr.org/news/specials/obits/reagan/timeline.htmlMilitary History Podcast is sponsored by Armchair General Magazine and by International Research and Publications Corporation
