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Friday, July 20, 2012

Monster Machines: The Fire Shadow Loiters For Hours Before Attacking Its Target


The Fire Shadow is an unmanned flying machine that can loiter unnoticed, hovering over an area for six hours, waiting to receive a kill order on any designated moving or static target — and then fall on it like a suicidal bird of prey to destroy it.

This video shows exactly that, hitting a car full of imagined terrorist in real life footage.

According to missile systems manufacturer MBDA, this bird of death is a high precision, low cost flying missile that can be launched by a soldier from the ground, just like any other small unmanned air vehicle.

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