ARGUS: World's Highest Resolution Video Surveillance Platform by DARPA

[Camilo]

http://youtu.be/QGxNyaXfJsA (about 5 min. video)

"It is Important for the Public to Know
that Some of these Capabilities Exist"

The ARGUS array is made up of several
cameras and other types of imaging systems.
The output of the imaging system is used to
create extremely large, 1.8GP high-resolution
mosaic of images and video.

The U.S. Army, along with Boeing, has
developed and is preparing to deploy a new
unmanned aircraft called the "Hummingbird."
It's a VTOL-UAS (vertical take-off and
landing unmanned aerial system).

Three of them are being deployed to
Afghanistan for a full year to survey and
spy on Afghanistan from an altitude of
20,000 feet, with the ability to scan 25
square miles of ground surface.

FreakyVidsDaily
January 27, 2013

[Bill Ryan]

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Many thanks for this. Here's the video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA






Edit to add: Just watched this. Everyone should see it. Just 4 mins long.

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[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

This is pretty scary considering the old drones already cost $250,000,000 apiece including R&D and are capable of providing millions of square feet of surveillance per week.

DARPA is going to reach a point where they will need only a handful of drones and we are going to have all this leftover junk like after vietnam.

But they won't stop churning them out, just like Boeing/LockheedM/NG

thank you very much for this vid/thread. used to follow the drone thing a bit and as a USAF vet I can't say i approve of them at all.

edit: maybe the drones will have more use than the Fail Liner (Boeing)

[ghostrider]

the detail in the Arugus is scary, they can watch you walk the street from a camera way up there, while still looking at the whole area ...