| After visiting the Denver RC Modeler Club one day as | | | | Command center such as this: be sufficient. Now the |
| they practiced for the national finals in PHX that year, | | | | aircraft or UAVs would be vertically stacked on the |
| we attempted a touch and go landing on our Blitz | | | | center in the back. Like a pez dispenser, when it was |
| Mobile, which is a 74 foot long NASCAR type truck | | | | time to launch the first ten or twelve would be |
| and trailer. Probably nothing more than a Fighter Pilots | | | | pre-assembled and in the spring activated dispenser, |
| son from the cold war wanting to re-invent the aircraft | | | | which raises them to the roof and then they would |
| carrier concept on a almost nano scale? We were | | | | launch. They would fly to 300 feet, satellite would ping |
| successful on doing a touch and bounce on the top of | | | | them for GPS verification and they would be released |
| the trailer without too much difficulty. It appears that a | | | | to autonomous flight. All the rest of the beginning |
| tractor trailer rig specially designed with panels on top | | | | sequence would be turned off and no frequency |
| which folded out ward to extend the length of the flat | | | | would be emitting or received only a blip every so |
| surface on top would be adequate to launch and | | | | often from satellite to pin-point position. If off track the |
| recover many hundred small UAVs. These UAVs | | | | satellite would send re-positioning data for 1-2 seconds |
| could be launched one after another to form swarms | | | | and turn off again, terrain following would be sound |
| for surveillance or to overwhelm the enemy. We did | | | | waves from the UAV itself or from satellite, or even |
| not have any automous UAVs with us on this day of | | | | abort sequence to divert the aircraft straight down to |
| testing and proving concept, but we did use a model | | | | self destruct. After the first few are launched other |
| aircraft, which was large enough to prove it will work. | | | | units could be quickly assembled and put in the pez |
| Here is the unit we used: today the units are much | | | | dispenser elevator for the next launch sequence. One |
| more agile and better suited for such a mission. We | | | | command center could carry up to 200-400 flying |
| also on that day launched the model airplane from the | | | | machines. UAVs. Do you think this could work? Think |
| top of the truck with relative ease. Meaning an Army | | | | about it. |