dan/california Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 It is talking about UAV sensors that sound like science fiction, and would be utterly game changing. http://www.slate.com/id/2200292/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 A variety of technologies to see through walls have been floating around since the 1980ties, mostly to help in hostage situations. I forgot what spectrum they use. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 I hadn't heard of the technology being small enough to mount on UAVs (or at least the small ones), but for a few years now this technology has been in Iraq on at least a trial basis. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luderbamsen Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 I seem to recall the synthetic aperture radar on the Predator being able to penetrate building materials under certain circumstances, and that was years back, so yeah. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuomio Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Radar technology is very different from the normal camera sensors. Camera is a passive device, while radar is active. Radar devices are extremely complicated. I dont think there is any airborne 3d radar capability existing and probably will not be for a while, as the need for such is nonexistent. Military papers will bloat and misinform, because they are used for propaganda purposes, take them with a grain of salt. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan/california Posted September 20, 2008 Author Share Posted September 20, 2008 "is this for real?" implies I know where my salt shaker is. "science fiction" implies I am sprinkling this particular snail madly in the effort to expedite natural selection. Snails that don't melt are deemed to have evolved. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuomio Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 "is this for real?" implies I know where my salt shaker is. "science fiction" implies I am sprinkling this particular snail madly in the effort to expedite natural selection. Snails that don't melt are deemed to have evolved. See-trough is not a problem, its the see-trough-just-the-concrete-not-the-body-behind-it which is a problem. If there is emission coming trough the concrete, then you could detect it. If not, you are shafted. Human body mass posesses no particularly interesting properties, when it comes down to physics. Most outstanding property of functioning human being is the generation of heat and there are vast quantities of military applications, which could utilize this particular property and increase their effiency by 10-fold. We are just not there yet. Anti-grav i can handle, see-trough is past sci-fi. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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