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TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Bat plane

By TigerHawk at 4/15/2008 07:16:00 AM

Bat Inspired Spy Plane : A six-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a bat would gathers visuals, sounds and smells in urban combat zones and transmit information back to a soldier in real time.

Smells? "Sarge, the bat is picking up obvious jihadi armpit stench! Should we call in a strike?"

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7 Comments:

By Charlottesvillain, at Tue Apr 15, 08:33:00 AM:

The only thing missing is the Green Goblin riding on it.

By Anonymous, at Tue Apr 15, 09:35:00 AM:

My gosh, that's just the cutest military hardware I've ever seen. I love the little tailhook!

By Anonymous, at Tue Apr 15, 10:23:00 AM:

Strike force, away!

By Anonymous, at Tue Apr 15, 11:33:00 AM:

Too bad that's just some clever CGI and not an actual photo

By D.E. Cloutier, at Tue Apr 15, 11:47:00 AM:

The original bat-plane press release from the University of Michigan is here:

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6409

By Anonymous, at Tue Apr 15, 02:08:00 PM:

You laugh, but "stinky Arab horde" is in fact a recognizable scent. There are similar stories from Vietnam. Ever see "We Were Soldiers?"

By Who Struck John, at Tue Apr 15, 03:02:00 PM:

I suspect the scent they are looking to detect is explosives. Think of it as a flying bombsniffer.