Thanks for pointing that out though, I wasn't aware that most people considered that term to mean that.
I have a huge interest in drones (as I'm sure many of us do) and think it would be really neat to have a personal drone that can follow us around, can do random tasks, and maybe even defend/guard us if necessary. I doubt someone would mug a person with a drone following them.
Wow, the heli-blimp looks like something I would have built in Kerbal Space Program (A game which lets you build spaceships and planes). Its a bad idea, and it looks like they thought adding a lot of cross-beams would make it stable. "Guess and Check" might have worked for HS Calculus, but it's not a good way to build a flying machine on a Navy contract.
Blimps are making a comeback apparently. I think the goal is to use them as a central relay for communications and to put a bunch of cameras and sensors on them. Possibly even release smaller drones and allow drones to refuel or recharge on them, kind of like a "mothership".
Yeah, those are cool, and a really good idea. Some great outside-the-box thinking, "let's put blimps everywhere!"
They're a lot larger than I thought after seeing that photo you linked to. I always assumed they were the size of a small car or even smaller.
I think they're also combined with the boomerang shooter detection system, and probably other sensors to give troops as much data as possible (wind speeds for shooting would probably be helpful).
