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Originally Posted by therise21 sounds like an easy target if anyone has an air force. |
There is more to the story than is posted. The hover on these beasts is from 60,000 to 100,000 (I thought it to be 300,000 but I'm not sure). Whichever is the upper hover altitude most of our enemies do not have the weaponry or aircraft to reach that altitude. Our basic ceiling is somewhere around 50,000 IIRC. In any case not many, if any, of the military groups of the world do not currently have SAM's to reach 60,000 let alone 100,000 feet.
It will not be a target, but it will be useful if they can find a renewable powersource to keep the electronics fired up for the extended loitering time they want.
My concept is that it is a good unmanned sensor to use. If they aren't too expensive to mass manufacture we can have big brother in the sky. I would also speculate that some of the sensors/video systems might be able to read your watch from where they might be floating.