Army’s Panopticon Drone Will See Lots of Afghanistan

You’re in Afghanistan. You get word that a flatbed truck ferrying a weapons cache to insurgents is heading through a mountain pass your way. You want to trace the truck’s path — there might be a weapons pipeline that way — as well as its destination. But that means keeping watch over miles and miles of turf.  It’ll require a gaggle of drones and spy planes to monitor such a wide area.