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Nanotube-reinforced carbon fiber Piranha USV ...The US Navy and Coast Guard are facing a looming budgetary crisis with little relief in sight," said James Hasik, principal at Hasik Analytic, a defense industry consulting firm that has been working with ZPM to refine the USV's operational concept and marketability to military customers. "A cost-effective unmanned vessel like the Piranha, with its range and payload, could provide the numbers and capabilities to significantly augment the current fleets, and help to control the seas from the Caribbean to the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, and the Horn of Africa."...
39 posted on 09/27/2010 6:43:00 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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Good evening hedgetrimmer. This Piranha USV is a slick looking craft!

Looking forward to learning more about it!


48 posted on 09/27/2010 6:50:04 PM PDT by AZamericonnie (I can see November from my house!)
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Good evening, hedgetrimmer....now that is really something. Unmanned and fast and it can do so many things. Thanks for sharing.


166 posted on 09/27/2010 10:49:16 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ RIP Brian...heaven's gain...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~)
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