Comments on: Axe-SPAN: Videojournalist David Axe Vignette on Predator & Reaper Drones

By: Should have gone to Specsavers, Gorgon stare does not work. | sUAS News

Should have gone to Specsavers, Gorgon stare does not work. | sUAS News — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:34:21 +0000

[...] is bad. Real bad. The Air Force is counting on Gorgon Stare to help its squadrons in Afghanistan meet “insatiable” demand for overhead full-motion [...]

By: Air Force’s ‘All-Seeing Eye’ Flops Vision Test | Geek Association

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:20:26 +0000

[...] is bad. Real bad. The Air Force is counting on Gorgon Stare to help its squadrons in Afghanistan meet “insatiable” demand for overhead full-motion [...]

By: War Is Boring: Unmanned Systems: Air Force Squadron Experiments with Reaper Radar

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:14:01 +0000

[...] KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Nestled in a remote corner of the NATO-run airfield in this violent southern province of Afghanistan is a nondescript row of trailers ringed by earthen barriers. Inside one of the trailers on a cool November morning, two flight-suit-clad officers bend over keyboards, flat-screen displays and control sticks. This is the standard Ground Control Station for the U.S. Air Force’s MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The officers represent a typical flight crew — a pilot and a sensor operator — assigned to the forward-deployed 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron. [...]