| The United States Soldiers have a new useful tool in | | | | clicking at a 90-degree angle until it slows down. |
| the battles space, one which allows them extended | | | | The Wing is attached to the fuselage with a center |
| battlespace situational awareness. A bird's eye view | | | | bolt and is aligned with the fuselage for firing into the |
| via robotic unmanned aerial vehicle or UAV, which are | | | | air. It is shot out of a tank almost straight up as it |
| launched by hand and fly around like a little remote | | | | arches slow down and return to earth the relative |
| control model aircraft taking pictures of the ground | | | | wind slows down and the spring loaded wing pops into |
| below and the enemy too. They are almost impossible | | | | place and then it has altitude, and can glide trickle |
| to shoot down and many can fly for hours protecting | | | | charging the battery and using solar to keep the motor |
| our troops. | | | | going. |
| I propose a new model of the UAV. A micro-air | | | | Instant altitude and distance at the speed of a round, |
| vehicle commonly called an MAV, which can be | | | | then use the same guidance system for the mortar |
| deployed faster, quicker and reach it surveillance area | | | | rounds we now have to steer it to a single mission |
| immediately and efficiently. How about a UAV, which is | | | | target and home in on enemy? If you have great ideas |
| the size of a hand thrown UAV but the wing is folded | | | | which can help our troops in Iraq then let's hear them, |
| along the fuselage while being launched and is shot into | | | | as my brother is a US Marine and we need to be |
| the air. The forward momentum keeps its wing from | | | | thinking here. |