DoD Contracts Out Work On New Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

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unhappycamper summary of this article: "The Vulture II project" is underway. One may question why we need to build an autonomous UAV that will stay up for five years. One (especially this one) may ask why are we contemplating flooding the skies with $160,000 Hellfire missiles.

This is just the latest known instance of the Department of Death and the Military Industrial Complex searching for new ways to spy on and kill people around the globe.

Personally, I would rather see those bucks go into jobs or libraries or infrastructure. Or anything useful.




N.M. university to help develop new UAV
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Oct 1, 2011 15:08:20 EDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico State University has landed a multimillion-dollar contract to help develop and test a new unmanned aircraft designed to stay aloft for five years.