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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched the Aerial Dragnet program, which “seeks innovative technologies to provide persistent, widearea surveillance of all [unmanned aircraft] operating below 1,000 feet in a large city”
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AUTHOR: Gerard Frawley
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The rise of the drones
Could there be applications here in keeping airports safe from rogue drones? darpa
It is definitely a deliberately provocative front cover heading designed to attract attention – ‘the rise of the drones’. The Air Force dislikes the term ‘drone’ mainly because of the media headlines about drone strikes taking out Taliban insurgents that impliy that drones are autonomous robots, all-seeing omnipotent machines that find and destroy their targets without human input.
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