Listening Comprehension Name: A Date: A Grade: A Teacher: Alejandro Buritic Gmez__________________ INSECTS INSPIRE A NEW GENERATION OF AUSTRALIAN WEAPONS

Australian researchers have studied the navigation skills of insects to develop a pioneering weapons-guidance system. The insect-inspired tracking technology has been launched at an air show in the southern state, Victoria. Australian weapons developers have been inspired by the and the ability of bees to avoid colliding with each other in a
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capacity of insects to spot and zero in on food .

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Australia's Defense Science and Technology Organization has been looking at how the existing research into insects' navigation and sight could make weapons more reliable and improve their ability to hit moving . Through its collaboration with several electronics companies, a new system known as 'Bioseeker' has been developed. Project Manager Philip Henschke says the study of insects has been vital. "A variety of insects have a unique capability to find the moving target and that's the particular holy of what we're interested in from a weapons application in defense. What we've actually done is looked at the mathematics of how an insect sees and we've taken that mathematics and from that we've looked at an do what we call a bio-image generation, a map of the movement
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that will enable us to within a scene."

track

This information was then analyzed in special software to create a system designed to find, moving targets. The Bioseeker technology is scheduled to
undergo further

and destroy

final testing, later this year. Its architects believe away from the enemy.

that, if it is eventually used in battle, it will make soldiers safer by taking them Researchers
aim

to produce a low-cost seeker-and-guidance system that could eventually be reduced to the size of
rockets

a coffee cup. Possible applications include placing the technology inside

used on the Australian Army's Tiger

defence

Attack helicopters. The Australian military is relatively small, with about 50,000 personnel. However, the has a reputation for technological innovation. The government in Canberra has said that, by 2020, it hopes to bring into service a and an early-warning aircraft, as well as a range of new helicopters and airborne The Australian military is involved in US-led campaign in Afghanistan.
peace-keeping

force

fleet
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of Super Hornet jet fighters airplanes.

missions in East Timor, Sudan and the Solomon Islands and with the