AAWSAP DIRD, Positron Aerospace Propulsion, March 2010

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Environmental/pollution monitoring.
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Fire detection and monitoring .
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Aerial surveying.
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Weather and atmospheric monitoring.
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Border patrol.
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Emergency communications relay.
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Drug interdiction.
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Law enforcement.
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Highway/road monitoring.
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Search and rescue.
Commercial
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Iceberg patrol/tracking in shipping lanes.
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Railway/pipeline/power line monitoring.
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Commercial fishing reconnaissance/sea-life monitoring.
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Environmental/pollution monitoring.
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Livestock monitoring.
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Mineral exploration.
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Weather sensing.
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Agriculture.
Additional advantages to the commercial airline ind ustry:
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Less propellant means increased payload/passenger per aircraft.
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Global nonstop flights are possible.
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Increase in structural mass allows more electronics/passenger amenities.
RAMJET-ASSISTED MISSILE (RAM)
The BOMARC 440-kilometer (km)-range antiaircraft missile was developed by the U.S.
Air Force in the 1950s to counter Soviet bombers. In the 1960s, the Talas, a long-range
surface-to-air missile, was developed by the U.S. Navy and later converted to the
Vandal missile. Both ramjets (Figure 8) activated at mach 1.
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