| Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs are all the rage | | | | allow the MAV to be protected by its own wings. I |
| and what started out as a military endeavor as drones | | | | propose we launch Lady Bug shaped MAV like the old |
| decades ago is now a technology which can be used | | | | wide mouth WWII vintage flare guns. Send them up |
| for just about anything. The newest thing in UAVs is | | | | and as the friction of the air heats up the wings they |
| miniaturization, that is to say building UAVs, which are | | | | start to open and by the time the Lady Bug bullet |
| smaller than radio controlled model aircraft. In fact so | | | | shape reaches the top of the arch of its trajectory, the |
| small that they could fly along side a hummingbird or | | | | wings pop open and it flies away already at altitude. |
| dragon fly and make you do a double take. They call | | | | Then it can fly around, give you a bird's eye view pick |
| these tiny UAVs; Micro-Air Vehicles or MAVs. If you | | | | a target and then ask the shooter to press Y or N on |
| look at a Lady Bug sometime you will find that it is a | | | | their little handheld PDA device like a 1.5 way old |
| really unique design. It is a little round bug most of the | | | | Alphanumeric Pager. Y for yes, kill that target or N for |
| time then extends its wings to fly. What if we | | | | no, keep searching for a new target. Once it is given |
| designed a Lady Bug Micro-Air vehicle and copied | | | | the green light to attack target it will simply fly over to |
| nature's design? There are many advantages to | | | | the target and then explode. This could be a very |
| launching a Lady Bug shaped MAV. | | | | good innovation for our troops to protect them from |
| By using the design of the Lady Bug which nature | | | | the enemy. Think on this. |
| developed over some 200-million years or so, we can | | | | |