Re: Drones (UAVs)

> > proposal to use small tracked RPVs for a variety of
> > miltary applications.  The author
> > calls them "demons", if I remember correctly, and
> > suggests at one point that they could be
> > used as (among other things) tank killers.	*How*
> > they are supposed to do this escapes me
> > at the moment.
> 
> Launch projectiles 100m up into the air, with a
> self-forging fragment warhead.  Zips right into the
> top armor and blows the tank up.  It's how Hornets
> work, and they are smaller than a trashcan.

These "demons" were -- again, if I remember correctly -- about the size
of a toaster.  I
could easily be misremembering, though...I haven’t looked at this little
book in years. 
Maybe they were supposed to function as mobile mines, or something like
that.

Well, I’ll find out in another hour or two.

John Crimmins
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