Boeing’s R and D Project for an Ultra Endurance UAV Pays Off!
The Boeing company being the innovative company that it is, has invested in very interesting project. They have taken it upon themselves to develop a new high altitude ultra long range unmanned aerial vehicle platform for surveillance. This platform can be used for both military and commercial operations. It might also save our next in the event of a major disruption in satellite communication.
A recent article in Forbes, in the aerospace news section entitled: “Boeing gets $89.3 million military contract” which originated on the Associated Press on September 15, 2010 tells it all, in case you are not familiar with any of this.
Indeed this is a very good use of Defense Funds, and Boeing’s newest ultra-endurance type UAV is potentially a huge game changer, it is a perfect platform in case of Electronic Attack of satellites, or a massive Solar Storm or Flares that take out our satellites. Remember if they go everything changes, life as we know it, everything from using your credit cards at retailers, gas pumps, etc.
No satellite radio, TV, overseas communication curtailed to a large extent, really problematic. Such an unmanned system by Boeing could save our necks, literally, so, kudos goes to Team Boeing, and to our DOD for recognizing the obvious and funding this project. YES, I am very serious about this one.
Can you even imagine if one-day, all of humanity lost all satellite communication – ouch! I mean, double Ouchy-wow-wow. That would be a day to remember, when all of modern technology basically came to a crawl. And worst of all, it could happen, as many of our satellite assets will not survive a severe solar storm, like the one which was documented in the 1800s – it happened before, and who is to say the next one wouldn’t be worse?
Well, in this case The Boeing Company can merely launch a 1,000 of these units and the next day, we’d be up and running. Business continuity is paramount and mankind’s biggest governments and biggest corporations need these types of assets ready to go and deployable within 24-48 hours to prevent long-term chaos from such a disruption.
We cannot merely lay-down and die or go into crisis mode every time there is a disruption, whether it be an electronic-impulse attack in space, a purposeful downing of US satellites, or the solar flare from hell. We need several locations with 1000s of these Boeing unmanned aerial systems, pre-configured, paid-for, and ready to go. This can be done.
Corporations and governments already have back-up plans in their IT departments, and these satellites are key infrastructure to that communication system. Companies and governments operate globally, we are connected, and we cannot afford disruptions. Please consider all this, as our think tank is, and we have a plan.
