Denali
07-28-14, 15:24
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/07/26/tiny-drones-deploy-for-us-allies/?utm_source=foxnews.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_module
Norway’s Prox Dynamics PD-100 Black Hornet Block II Personal Reconnaissance System is a tiny drone helicopter that can fit into the palm of your hand. The company says it is the world’s smallest operational unmanned air system.
It may look like a toy remote control helicopter on the wish list of kids young and old, but it’s serious combat tech. Black Hornet is about four inches long and one inch wide. And this little guy is astonishingly light. It only weighs just over half an ounce - that’s like the weight of three sheets of paper.
The entire system, including two Black Hornets, a base station that can fit in your back pocket, a controller and a screen, weighs under three pounds.
This drone technology has become extremely frightening, it's one thing on the battlefield, and an entirely different thing in the hands of politicians and their various para-militarized police agencies who will gleefully loose it upon their various city-fiefdoms citizens, as invaluable tools of safety & policing concerns. In a nation where the police have become heavily para-militarized, and a source of continual fear and mistrust, this is exactly what they should not be allowed to be laying their hands upon....
Despite its size, the Black Hornet can spend approximately 30 minutes in the air. The operator can pilot it, but you can also plug in the GPS coordinates and the drone can fly itself using auto-pilot.
The drone has built-in GPS, internal sensors and more. The system is very easy to operate - similar to using an Xbox or PlayStation. The basic training course to become a Black Hornet operator takes only two days.
Given its tiny size and lightweight, the company says that Black Hornet does not pose a threat to other aircraft.
What is it used for?
Black Hornet is a very sophisticated military tool with three cameras tucked into a very small unit – a pretty impressive engineering feat.
Three HD cameras packed into an object four inches in length, and one inch in width, what a wonderful place we have made of this world, it reminds me of a device that was used in "Frank Herbert's Dune," a small airborne device called a hunter/seeker that was used to both spy on and then assassinate its intended targets.
Norway’s Prox Dynamics PD-100 Black Hornet Block II Personal Reconnaissance System is a tiny drone helicopter that can fit into the palm of your hand. The company says it is the world’s smallest operational unmanned air system.
It may look like a toy remote control helicopter on the wish list of kids young and old, but it’s serious combat tech. Black Hornet is about four inches long and one inch wide. And this little guy is astonishingly light. It only weighs just over half an ounce - that’s like the weight of three sheets of paper.
The entire system, including two Black Hornets, a base station that can fit in your back pocket, a controller and a screen, weighs under three pounds.
This drone technology has become extremely frightening, it's one thing on the battlefield, and an entirely different thing in the hands of politicians and their various para-militarized police agencies who will gleefully loose it upon their various city-fiefdoms citizens, as invaluable tools of safety & policing concerns. In a nation where the police have become heavily para-militarized, and a source of continual fear and mistrust, this is exactly what they should not be allowed to be laying their hands upon....
Despite its size, the Black Hornet can spend approximately 30 minutes in the air. The operator can pilot it, but you can also plug in the GPS coordinates and the drone can fly itself using auto-pilot.
The drone has built-in GPS, internal sensors and more. The system is very easy to operate - similar to using an Xbox or PlayStation. The basic training course to become a Black Hornet operator takes only two days.
Given its tiny size and lightweight, the company says that Black Hornet does not pose a threat to other aircraft.
What is it used for?
Black Hornet is a very sophisticated military tool with three cameras tucked into a very small unit – a pretty impressive engineering feat.
Three HD cameras packed into an object four inches in length, and one inch in width, what a wonderful place we have made of this world, it reminds me of a device that was used in "Frank Herbert's Dune," a small airborne device called a hunter/seeker that was used to both spy on and then assassinate its intended targets.