{"id":5934,"date":"2010-06-15T07:23:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T13:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:16:09","slug":"gorgon-set-to-fly-over-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/gorgon-set-to-fly-over-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorgon Set to Fly Over Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gorgon Stare<\/em> is a 1,000 pound sensor that will enable a wide area to be monitored across a variety of spectrums, day or night, likely including both visual and infrared.\u00a0 It is currently set to be deployed to Afghanistan<\/a> on the MQ-9 Reaper<\/em>.\u00a0 Rather than having a single operator operate a single camera pointed at an area just a few miles (or feet) across (as, say, the Predator<\/em>), the idea is that this sensor will capture a huge area, and users can simply choose that which they want to see.\u00a0 Think of it as “Google Earth” — only live<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The ARGUS<\/em> may eventually supersede Gorgon Stare<\/em> with, as its namesake implies, far more — and more detailed — “eyes.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Think “religious freedom” advocate Michael Weinstein will consider this an endorsement of Greek mythology by the US military, and a “propaganda tool” for American adversaries?\u00a0 Given Weinstein’s selective outrage to date<\/a>, it’s probably unlikely, though the fact it fits so well\u00a0into his dogmatic rants\u00a0demonstrates how ludicrous his claims actually are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gorgon Stare is a 1,000 pound sensor that will enable a wide area to be monitored across a variety of spectrums, day or night, likely including both visual and infrared.\u00a0 It is currently set to be deployed to Afghanistan on the MQ-9 Reaper.\u00a0 Rather than having a single operator operate a single camera pointed at an area just a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58,633,632,634,85,2,5218,7,352,95,53],"class_list":["post-5934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-argus","tag-gorgon-stare","tag-greek-mythology","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-predator","tag-reaper","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}