Aces_High
Member
Hello everyone!
Before I get into my idea, I'd just like to give a little background information, so you all understand where I'm getting my ideas from. I'm currently enlisted in the United States Army. I've been serving for 7 years, and I am a combat veteran with about 2 3/4 years experience serving in Iraq. Additionally, I'm in my junior year at the American Military University where I am pursuing a degree in National Security, specifically Intelligence Analysis.
So, with that out of the way, here is my suggestion for a show;
Real-world R/C applications;
What sort of real world scenarios could RC craft be used for? The modern battlefield is becoming increasingly complex. Unmanned vehicles have assumed many roles on the battlefield, from detonating bombs, to aerial reconnaissance and strikes, to ground based weapons systems. Additionally, stateside, drones have been used to patrol large areas of land that would otherwise require large, costly, maned operations.
Such technology is, at best, extremely expensive. But what if you, in this case the Flite-test crew, were tasked to design a drone. What application (rescue, attack, patrol, supply drops etc) would you design your craft for? Would it be rotary or fixed wing? How big or small would it be?
I have my own personal ideas that I will be working on over the winter, but I'm curious to see what the community, and Flitetest could come up with. I know the CarbonFlite guys are working on a search and rescue assistance craft, and I applaud them for that! (Really, you guys are doing great work!)
So, what do you guys think?
Before I get into my idea, I'd just like to give a little background information, so you all understand where I'm getting my ideas from. I'm currently enlisted in the United States Army. I've been serving for 7 years, and I am a combat veteran with about 2 3/4 years experience serving in Iraq. Additionally, I'm in my junior year at the American Military University where I am pursuing a degree in National Security, specifically Intelligence Analysis.
So, with that out of the way, here is my suggestion for a show;
Real-world R/C applications;
What sort of real world scenarios could RC craft be used for? The modern battlefield is becoming increasingly complex. Unmanned vehicles have assumed many roles on the battlefield, from detonating bombs, to aerial reconnaissance and strikes, to ground based weapons systems. Additionally, stateside, drones have been used to patrol large areas of land that would otherwise require large, costly, maned operations.
Such technology is, at best, extremely expensive. But what if you, in this case the Flite-test crew, were tasked to design a drone. What application (rescue, attack, patrol, supply drops etc) would you design your craft for? Would it be rotary or fixed wing? How big or small would it be?
I have my own personal ideas that I will be working on over the winter, but I'm curious to see what the community, and Flitetest could come up with. I know the CarbonFlite guys are working on a search and rescue assistance craft, and I applaud them for that! (Really, you guys are doing great work!)
So, what do you guys think?