HyperSphere - continuous surveillance
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HyperSphere - continuous surveillance
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#2The geek inside me loves the idea. The human inside me, however sees this as a +1 for big brother.
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#3> proprietary innovative autonomous MALE UAV airship
I love when companies try to use "proprietary" as a selling point. The point they're trying to convey is "our competitors don't have this", but the point they do convey to savvy customers is "Hoh boy is there some ugly code in here, and we aren't going to let you see it when something goes wrong."
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#4Balloons like this tend to have high drag. These small propellers seem inadequate for keeping the direction in strong or even medium winds.
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#5Soooo...they reinvented a blimp, strapped on some gimballed cameras and are using a proprietary equivalent to ArduPilot?
One of my hobbies is FPV RC planes/quadrotors. People are doing this with planes and quads for a fraction of the cost. Not 100 hour deployments sure, but that's because blimps are boring to fly.
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#6So, does this exist yet or is it just an executive summary and some renderings?
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#7Soooo...they reinvented a blimp, strapped on some gimballed cameras and are using a proprietary equivalent to ArduPilot? One of my hobbies is FPV RC planes/quadrotors. People are doing this with planes and quads for a fraction of the cost. Not 100 hour deployments sure, but that's because blimps are boring to fly.
Actually its a dirigible according to the render (rigid structure) and it has exploited the same "design innovation" that the Australian company [1] did which is that by making is a saucer shape you avoid some of the stationkeeping issues as the vehicle presents a uniform air resistance profile in every direction.
I wonder though who the target market is for this thing which is clearly out looking for funding. Given the scale on the render by a hanger it seems to be quite large, and while being predominantly clear would have it be hard to spot at altitude its overall size and the slow maneuverability of gas filled aircraft suggests it would be an easy target.
It doesn't seem to have the payload to carry a communication substation (another proposed application of long loiter aircraft) thus the market seems like it might be drug lords wanting surveillance around their home base (always a bad idea since its also a flag "here is my home base") or perhaps border patrol.
The good news is that being specialized you only have a few possible customers and you can quickly ascertain if they will buy from you or not thus you won't waste a lot of time.
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#8The following article (in croatian) states that the project is worth 7.5 billion euros. The inventors are saying that they want to keep the project in Croatia, but that there's no interest from the government or anyone else here, so they're forced to look elsewhere for investors. They claim that one particular european country has already shown interest and considers the project important to protecting its national interests. The project was also exhibited in London and on Google's campus.
http://dnevnik.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/doznajemo-hrvatskoj-iz-ru...
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#9So, does this exist yet or is it just an executive summary and some renderings?
According to croatian news portals, there's a fully functional smaller scale prototype.
More in this news report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDKyRy43NxQ