Posted on 09/10/2020 8:43:57 PM PDT by BeauBo
I say again, we are still getting an awesome physical Border Wall system - this is in addition to the bollards - part of an incredible integrated Border Wall "System".
This awesome new capability, casting a dome of detection, identification and tracking over huge swathes of land and airspace, will deploy quickly and cheaply.
The Autonomous Surveillance Towers they are already providing can each cover miles, and a hundred costs only about as much as a single mile of the high end physical wall.
The bottom Line is that this is a powerful new part of an explosive deployment of Technology, that is surging out across the whole Southern Border.
Peter Thiel is an investor in Anduril. Anduril, like Palantir, is named after an object from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings (as is all of Thiel's company names)
10 miles of new Border Wall System per week - but more than that of “Virtual Wall” Technology rolls out each week as well.
The technology provides a deep band of coverage, miles in from the border, and lots of unique necessary capabilities as well (like running down those who do jump the Wall). It also rapidly covers the gaps between stretches of physical Border Wall System, so the whole stretch will be covered much quicker.
These new systems are game changers.
Boeing hosed taxpayers for over $1 billion under Janet Napolitano, with zero oversight, and NONE of it works.
Btw, Anduril founder Lucky was homeschooled, and is only 27 years old. He is worth $763 million from his sale of Occulus.
How are commercial drones regulated and policed?
Recently read about cartels using c4 on drones to deliver explosives. How about drones capable of lighting fires across the West. Or explosives delivered anywhere in the US.
Worried about Antifa using this courtesy of left wing donors and companies.
Virtual walls detect Mexicans AS and AFTER they cross and they are apprehended and welcomed in to begin processing. I want an actual wall that is damned tough to get over.
Looks like Anduril is hiring Diversity & Inclusion Recruiting Program Managers.
What we need is a moat along our border wall, with lots of pirhannas, alligators, and cottonmouths. Warning signs every 100 feet in English, Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese.
Virtual walls stop virtually no one.
Pretty darn awesome!
Now that’s an interesting idea! And of course, a physical wall would be great too.
What now? Trust but verify. No "virtual wall" without a real physical wall (and not just strands of barbed wire).
Super bang for the buck with Anduril - their stuff works!
We can cost effectively scale up to thousands of these drones, and they can carry all kinds of sensors (cameras, heat sensors, sound, RF, radar), and perform all kinds of missions (Patrol, response, tracking, counter-drone, communication relay, jamming cartel comms).
Detection goes way up, and probability of getting away goes way down.
My take is none of these are meant to be used instead of physical walls, they are meant to be used in conjunction with them.
I am also going to guess they can be used autonomously.
I think BeauBo posted an article a while back that showed modular tower units that can be deployed and contain and link to a host of sensors.
I see these drones being deployed autonomously by software alone, being able to fly to a region (perhaps four of them, and they can take up a perimeter in a square moving in unison with each other and keeping the square moving as the target moves, and their sensors linked with each other and with a central location. They can have them parked in a small group near a contested area of fencing with a modular tower controlling them, and all of them data-linked back to humans. Who can put eyes on them and approve missions.
The tower with its powerful array of sensors could issue a mission with coordinates for the drones to take up station and begin streaming all kinds of data back where AI could be used to categorize various types of things.
So the drones would just sit there, if something was seen, one of them could start up automatically and deploy to check coordinates, and if something is seen, the other drones could be called in (to save money, wear, and tear) as needed.
I could even envision a modular bay or holder for the drone, where various payloads could be changed out without human interaction, and drones deployed.
Anduril is Aragorns reforged sword, meaning flame of the West
Were you the one a few weeks back that provide a link to a mobile modular sensor tower? If so, could you post it again if you can find it?
I cant cut and paste the link right now, but I saw the post (from 2 July), by using the search function ofFree Republic (Search in the top left corner).
I searched for the word Anduril, in the category title.
Also, some time further back, I posted another article about a contract award for a lot of rapidly deployable buildings - the size of shipping containers, that fold out/ pop up in a few hours on site.
The speculation was that the Border Patrol might be planning to establish some rural operational bases, for improved monitoring and response in remote areas - perhaps operating some of the new technology, such as tower or aerostat (blimp) basing sensors, and/or a squadron of drones.
Alternatively, those shelters may have been a contingency for housing a surge in the number of detainees, which was at crisis levels back then.
Id guess the FAA has some regulations on drones, and the FCC on the command and data links they radiate.
ISIS used some some modified off the shelf (commercially available) drones to drop small explosives. Some Mexican cartels have used that tactic in Mexico, and more extensively, they have used drones to lookout for Border Patrol, and to carry drugs across the border.
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