Springtail Military Applications

Trek Aerospace has met and consulted with the armed forces and their advisors to understand their current and future operational requirements.  We have discussed how Springtail may be employed to closely support advancing ground operations, increasing the effectiveness and lethality of small combat teams.  Many future operations will be conducted where an enemy is often located in densely populated areas among civilians and city infrastructures.  These situations call for specific, and often narrow, rules of engagement, making these operations particularly difficult.  Springtail can greatly increase the networking effectiveness of the ground soldiers allowing them to penetrate populated areas with reduced disruption and casualties, both military and civilian.

Swarming

An article by RAND^®, appearing September 29, 2003, in Aviation Week and Space Technology^®, stated that “swarming is a big part of the answer” to updating military tactics in a “world (which) keeps moving into the age of networks”.   The article further states: “Networking means much the same for the military as it does in business and social-activist setting, not to mention among information-age terrorists and criminals; monitoring the environment more broadly with highly sophisticated sensors; expanding lateral information flows; forming and deploying small, agile, specialized teams; and devolving much (but not all) command authority downward. But it also has a doctrinal implication that these other types of actors are learning faster than the U.S. military: It’s a good idea to become more adept at ‘swarming’.”

 “Swarming is seemingly amorphous but carefully structured, coordinated way to strike from all directions at a particular point or points ... it will work best – perhaps it will only work – if it is designed mainly around that deployment of myriad small, dispersed, networked maneuver units.”

Peacetime Aid

Military applications using Springtail are not limited to times of war.  Every nation needs to continually tighten security at home, on foreign bases, and embassies.  Springtail would enable security personnel to respond quickly to intrusions detected by surveillance sensors in remote locations faster than land-based vehicles.  Our unique single manned aircraft, gives security forces a tool that allows them to  decentralize their forces as a safety measure, and use their individual Springtail aircraft, to come together as a coordinated force quickly whenever a threat is detected.