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General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: Webbot on July 03, 2010, 06:40:16 PM
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Always good for us UK guys (and Euro folk) to blow our own trumpet.
USA is paying us 350 million to provide air surveillance equipment for Iraq - see homepage with vids at http://www.hybridairvehicles.net/ (http://www.hybridairvehicles.net/) and their co-winner for UAVs at http://www.bbsr.co.uk/ (http://www.bbsr.co.uk/)
Enjoy
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I posted this ages ago :P
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=9169.0 (http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=9169.0)
Interesting though . . . how many did the US buy, and was it just to 'try them out' or a serious purchase?
I'm not sure how much these cost, but $350m sounds like just three, plus a few years of full support and parts . . . (just a comment, not insulting you tea monopolizing British hehe :P)
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350million is probably in pounds so maybe closer to 700million US dollars.
Not really related but a British inventor also got commissioned for a design for cutting down barbed wire using exposives and sharpened metal. Wish I could provide a video to it as its very cool but simle in design