DARPA will turn obsolete drones flying in Wi-Fi access point

We all suffer, if urgent need internet, any "quality", but it is not, neither wired nor wireless. Sometimes even a major European city has to look for an access point for a long time.

Well, for lack of military communication can be like death, both literally and figuratively. And the agency DARPA plans to create a wireless network from a few old drones.

These drones, RQ-7 is very actively used during the war in Iraq. Now, most of these devices is without application in military warehouses. And experts military sphere reflect on the possibility of turning into a flying drone access point that provides a large enough area online channel with a capacity of 1 Gb / sec.

Drones above models are large enough to carry the necessary equipment. The military developed a special transceiver equipment operating in the millimeter radio spectrum. In addition, developed and signal amplifiers that operate at half the noise level, compared to the "civil" network equipment of a similar type.

UAV can stay aloft nine o'clock without refueling. Of course, the question arises about the possible scale of the network and on the costs of maintaining the operation of such equipment. But we all know that the military is usually not regret money for their projects, so that in this case the issue price - not the most important.

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Source: habrahabr.ru/post/219331/