Bug drone for UK army that weights 196g, has 40 mins autonomy and 2km range

Post by dash2 » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:23 AM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #99

CamperBob2 wrote: post #60

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It's hard to express how awesome the Mini is. IMO it's an underappreciated technological achievement at the once-in-a-hundred-years level. Only a few years ago, it was hard to get a decent digital camera for $400 and change. The Mini is a decent camera that also happens to fly. When that realization hit me, it reminded me of the first time I saw a $29 DVD player for sale at WalMart. Some incredible things had to happ…

"The BAE drone probably costs $50,000 apiece" That may be a little high. UAVTek's site says they beat the FLIR Black Hornet 3 bid[1]. Estimates based on US Army budget requests say the Black Hornet 3 is coming in between $15k and $16k per unit[2]. Probably still 5 figures though. [1] https://uavtek.co.uk/news/uk-mod-acquire-latest-nano-drone-t... [2] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26359/the-pocket-sized...

Post by knolax » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:34 AM UTC

Post by ajsnigrutin » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:48 AM UTC

Sideloader wrote: post #105

Hmm...from a tech porn perspective it’s a cool little gadget. But given the shadow surveillance and police state that was erected post 9/11 and how often “national security” outfits have been caught playing fast and loose with the laws of the land, there is a good chance that bugs like this one will be eventually be used to illegally spy on domestic dissidents and whistleblowers. Governments in most western countries…

Post by StreamBright » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:53 AM UTC

secfirstmd wrote: post #132

jjeaff wrote: post #130

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>Governments in most western countries have thrown out habeas corpus and have given themselves the right to indefinitely ‘disappear’ anyone they arbitrarily deem a threat to national security. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden come to mind. Neither of those seem to be examples of habeas corpus being thrown out. Neither were "disappeared" and the court systems were used against Assange and nothing has happened to Snow…

Whoa that's a bit of a US Centric broad brush there. "Most Western Countries" - there's more to the West than the US, UK and less than half a dozenish who have or are doing that. I'm Irish and the vast majority of the EU and other Western Countries (however that is defined) aren't in the business of disappearing people.

Post by paganel » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 8:22 AM UTC

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #145

Sideloader wrote: post #105

Hmm...from a tech porn perspective it’s a cool little gadget. But given the shadow surveillance and police state that was erected post 9/11 and how often “national security” outfits have been caught playing fast and loose with the laws of the land, there is a good chance that bugs like this one will be eventually be used to illegally spy on domestic dissidents and whistleblowers. Governments in most western countries…

Drones are fucking loud, and the video stream can be detected while transmitted via the air (with an sdr card or something similar). Signals can also be jammed, and combined with gps jamming, the drone will "get lost", and probably land at its current location (and hopefully not just drop out of the sky when the batteries are empty). And this is not james bond level of knowledge and equipment, but something a better…