>From: Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net>
>
>LOCKHEED MARTIN DEMONSTRATES NEW RECONNAISSANCE CAMERA:
>
>Lockheed Martin has demonstrated in flight tests a new reconnaissance
>and mapping camera that it says offers significantly sharper images even
>when the aircraft is flying at high speed. The Ultra High Resolution
>Framing
>Camera uses on-chip electronic image stabilization to freeze an image,
>according to Lockheed Martin Fairchild Systems, Syosset, NY. It said
>the camera can capture a single image covering a square mile of ground
>with enough resolution to identify the tires on individual vehicles. The
>camera, installed in a pod carried beneath an F-16, produced crisp
>pictures from an altitude of 3,000 feet while the aircraft was traveling
>at 550 mph, Lockheed Martin said. (Aerospace Daily)
Sounds like Mike Lorrey is going to need a *much* bigger gun :)
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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