Sentences with phrase «for aerial reconnaissance»

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A Russian military spy plane cruised the skies over Washington today, with plans for New York City and New Jersey — in a perfectly legal bit of aerial reconnaissance that nonetheless appeared to be an attempt to troll Trump.

It's also useful in cosmology and charting the far reaches of the Milky Way, weather prediction and climate change modeling or even aerial reconnaissance missions for national defense.

Such abilities could be particularly useful for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the lightweight aircraft the military increasingly employs for low - altitude reconnaissance.

However, the Department of Defense is now cultivating another type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for use in combat planning, designed to soar high above the battlefield for so - called ISR (intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance) missions.

The military already uses unmanned aerial vehicles for reconnaissance or to attack enemy targets, and DARPA has sponsored several contests in recent years to determine the feasibility of developing autonomic ground transportation.

The most uniform of the recent paintings (below), in seductively calming beige, gray, and white, suggests satellite reconnaissance for military targeting across an unfolded Mercator projection — or, less ominously, global aerial views of irrigation systems.

Chris McCaw builds his own large - format cameras and outfits them with powerful lenses typically used for military surveillance and aerial reconnaissance.

Regional datasets based primarily on ship reports and aerial reconnaissance are the primary inputs for the earlier part of the 20th century.

In those days, the main uses of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)-- aka drones — were military, either for reconnaissance or for attack.