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[email protected] September 17th 06 04:36 AM

Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessel
 
http://www.harborwingtech.com/html/a...nstration.html

Unmanned sailing craft with hydrofoils and retractable sails.


katy September 17th 06 06:07 AM

Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessel
 
wrote:
http://www.harborwingtech.com/html/a...nstration.html

Unmanned sailing craft with hydrofoils and retractable sails.


Reminds me of Waterworld....just about as plausible....

Joe September 17th 06 02:55 PM

Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessel
 

wrote:
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 checking shipping in the Gulf.

Joe


Scotty September 17th 06 04:05 PM

Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessel
 

"Joe" wrote in message
ps.com...

wrote:

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?





Ellen MacArthur September 17th 06 08:21 PM

Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessel
 

wrote
| Unmanned sailing craft with hydrofoils and retractable sails.


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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