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Army Examines Black Hornet As Proxy For Future Squad ISR, SA

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, July 30th, 2014

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Army Examines Black Hornet As Proxy For Future Squad ISR, SA

Black Hornet Nano UAS Photo: FLIR Systems

The Army's Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) is looking at Norway's Prox Dynamics Black Hornet, a fit-in-your-hand aerial surveillance device for its Cargo Pocket Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance program (CP-ISR). The CP-ISR program’s goal is to develop a mobile soldier sensor to increase the situational awareness of dismounted soldiers by providing real-time video surveillance of threat areas within their operational environment. NSRDEC engineers looked at existing commercial off-the-shelf technologies and identified a surrogate CP-ISR system, the…

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