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Unmanned sailing craft with hydrofoils and retractable sails.

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Unmanned sailing craft with hydrofoils and retractable sails.


Reminds me of Waterworld....just about as plausible....
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Unmanned sailing craft with hydrofoils and retractable sails.


To expensive and complicated. A mass produced UAV will be cheaper,
faster, and less vurnable. We have a UAV air wing moving into Ellington
field here right now.

Will have a dozen of these:
http://www.magazine.noaa.gov/stories...uav-tarmac.jpg

Flying the border, and checking shipping in the Gulf.

Joe

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http://www.harborwingtech.com/html/a...nstration.html

Unmanned sailing craft with hydrofoils and retractable

sails.

To expensive and complicated. A mass produced UAV will be

cheaper,
faster, and less vurnable. We have a UAV air wing moving

into Ellington
field here right now.

Will have a dozen of these:

http://www.magazine.noaa.gov/stories...uav-tarmac.jpg

Flying the border, and


dropping green cards?




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Wait till the drug runners get wind of that thing. They'll steal it. They'll reprogram it. They'll fill it with cocaine and
make giant profits....


Cheers,
Ellen

 
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