The miniaturization can revolutionize the exploration and intelligence. (As I have said many times before)

"Glider over Mars"
David Hardy
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Above is the picture what is painted by artist David Hardy, and it is a portrait of the glider, what flies above the Martian canyon, and this made me think, that what that kind of small size solar-powered glider can give to the scientists and military intelligence. The small size automatized gliders, what uses the solar power could operate years in the Martian or any planet atmosphere, and I think that this kind of device can operate without touching the planet surface. The only thing what is needed is to connect the big balloon in that glider, what makes it possible to stay flying in the atmosphere.


The thing works like when the glider's batteries become weak, the balloon, what should keep it airborne will open, and then the tube will drop to the lower level of the atmosphere, where capillary phenomenon will bring the gas thru the small turbine, what gives electricity to the computers. This kind of turbine-
 the generator combination should reload the batteries of that small remotely controlled vehicle, what is actually the jetpack, what is equipped with the computer and remote-control electronics.


When the batteries are full, the compressor will suck the gas out from the balloon back to the bottle, and the drone can continue its operations. In the earth atmosphere, that kind of miniaturized drones can be used as the intelligence, surveillance and even for attack missions.


They can patrol some areas and send data to the authorities about the actions, what people are doing in there. They can look for missing people, but in the military world, they can do very many things, what big aircraft can do, but they are cheaper for produce. And the reason, why Cesium-batteries are not suitable for this kind of drones, is that if they were shot down, the high radioactive Cesium will go to hands of terrorists, who might use them to build the "dirty bomb", what means the device, what delivers radioactive material to the air, and "dirty bomb" can poison many people.


Those long enduring drones can slip into the hostile airspace, and search for the action in that area. They can also point targets to the attack aircraft, and if we are honest, can be equipped with the warheads. In this scenario, the same drones, what sends the data for intelligence officials, can be used as the missiles, what eliminates interesting targets. The drones can be equipped with detectors, what search the radio-messages, and they will use to eliminate the radios from the battlefield. Those targets might be radar antennas, aircraft, ammunition storages, command systems, and of course the vehicles what carries the leaders of the enemy.

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