Air Drones launched and controlled as autonomous GPS UAV robotic aero droids could perform as virtual eyes and ears as well as providing; life saving medical assistance, weapons delivery systems, tank killers, information gathering, radiation sensing, ground penetrating radar, thermal imaging, early warning systems. Air Drone All Weather Crusader is a UAV Virtual Weapons & Information System proposed as a Blackhawk Extended UAV shield for urban situations like Mogadishu without exposure to trouble or danger.

Air Drone UAVs deployed with US Army and Marines Blackhawk helicopters would extend the Blackhawk crew’s shield of protection with an array of sensors including radiation and gas, autonomous night tracking and thermal imaging, and the ability to fly into an urban warfare situation like Mogadishu Somalia, maintain a stealth low profile close to the ground and get a real time visual of the situation without ever exposing an American soldier to unknown danger or risk and have the extended shield of protection also deliver an aerial robotic attack.

This could all be accomplished from a Blackhawk helicopter flying nearby collecting information, and not needing to even confront the enemy with the Blackhawk, but rather orchestrate a lethal attack from a pair of hovering Air Drone Crusaders arriving from out of nowhere like a swarm ready to delivers a virtual flying fortress and disappear back to the Blackhawk’s to be retrieved or to AAR Mobility Command and Control UAV Stations dropped in the night before miles away to coordinate perimeter control and surveillance of covert airstrip.

Air Drone Crusaders can work autonomously with a UAV operator and technician payload coordinator or as a contingency that operates directly with the Blackhawk crew and could be operated from the Blackhawk or as part of a system that integrates the Blackhawk’s weapons system and extends those to become the Air Drone delivery system. The Air Drone UAV relationship with the Blackhawk crew could be further integrated and enhanced with the addition of the UAV command station in the Mobility Systems container with either the command station UAV operators or the Blackhawk pilot and crew being able to control the UAV mission and integrate it into the Blackhawk’s arsenal and shield of protection and also integrating the IAV information up command to networks of other UAV command centers and Blackhawks or central command.

You are likely aware of the widely publicized success of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as the “Predator” used by the U.S. Air Force in Afghanistan and Iraq. These vehicles have been effectively utilized to gather intelligence, track terrorists and fire missiles at enemy combatants. Although not as well known, much smaller devices are launched by military units many times each day. Devices such as the “Raven” and “Dragon Eye” are fully operational UAVs weighing less than six pounds with wingspans under five feet.