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I don't have too much to say but you're on to something. I was at the Humtech conference in May and the Navy came in and said basically they're the only ones wh
by thenipper 11y ago
I don't have too much to say but you're on to something. I was at the Humtech conference in May and the Navy came in and said basically they're the only ones who can do what they do.
It'd be nice to have a non military option for that kind of operational support. The place where I work now can do some of that, but it's hard to convince donors to invest in those sort of "someday we'll need this" resource.
- rdl 11y agoThe nice thing is this gets easier all the time with tech, in that it requires a smaller footprint and thus physical security on the ground. I could run UAV communication relays, satcom, etc. over Syria right now, from bases in Kurdistan, with no personnel physically at risk, for <$10mm/yr.
- thenipper 11y agoDefinitely! There is a startup non-profit called Uplift Aeronautics[1] that was talking about doing something like that. It was going to be a UAV 'train' that dropped supplies into Syria using randomized paths so to make it hard to shoot down. [1] http://uplift.aero/ http://uplift.aero/
- vijayr 11y agoTheir wiki page seems broken http://uplift.aero/wiki http://uplift.aero/wiki