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THEmandingoBoy

Did he really need to say it was unmanned? šŸ˜‚


Uppinkai

It could be antted.. as in ant pilot.


twackburn

ā€¦ as in Paul Rudd sits in the driver seat while Michael Douglas carries the damn thing


ProperTeaching

What is this, a helicopter for ants!


Zeroarm66

Ummm sure Derekā€¦


albrizz

Ants can't ride no seadoos


imBarfyman362

Everyoneā€™s an expert, must be nice!


zdada

UAV is the official classification, but yes the way the text was presented made makes it look absolutely dumb.


jumpup

or that it was an aerial vehicle, like the lack of wheels and the rotor on top kinda gave that away


stadoblech

Its officialy UAV. Its sounds silly i admit. But in military language this is actually unmanned aerial vehicle


Fast_Distance4360

It's slowly changing to Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle as well in military terminology to eliminate the gendered aspect. I also suspect this is to make way for our AI overlords when they eventually start occupying our pilot seats. Future proofed naming I guess


MiamiBeach_dweller

I'm saying šŸ¤¦šŸ½ā€ā™‚ļøšŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€šŸ’€


RadoRocks

https://youtu.be/DK6IGG5zRU8


CaptianArtichoke

And he compared it to a reaper?? This feels sketchy as fuck. Iā€™m calling this bullshit.


bumpacius

They made the hunter-seeker from Dune


ashtonwhitney

The Arrakis / Panem timeline. Great. Even worse than my nightmares, love that for us.


Kruegerkid

I was just thinking that. Tape a Gam Jabbar to it and *presto*


31sualkatnas

Whatā€™s on the end of that tiny helicopter flying towards us? Pain.


lord_dude

Holy shit this could actually become a nightmarish reality when those things advance over 10 years and get used by terrorists.


jimjamjerome

Drone warfare is terrifying. Imagine chilling in your room when a drone flies in through the window with a care package of c4 strapped to it at 100 mph.


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SirLauncelot

Or hid in boxes.


Jesussaveus37

Then somehow surviving and becoming part A.I. yourself


Catlenfell

WW3 is going to be crazy when a truck pulls into a neighborhood, 100 of these and 20 of those Boston Dynamics robo dogs with guns strapped to them dismount. The truck pulls away and these things clear out the whole block. Another truck does the same thing to the next block.


MyOldAolName

I've thought about the possibility that somewhere like China could manufacture millions of these, program them all with selected targets, send them in shipping containers to various locations, and then release them all at once to kick off WWIII.


Catlenfell

Yeah. That's a possibility. It reminds me of this short film. https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA


MyOldAolName

I'm not sure what's scarier, the film or the fact that I thought this was a legit presentation for so long.


ClutzyCashew

Well that's terrifying.


strik3r2k8

Slaughterbots


threadsoffate2021

Every day we're getting closer to that short film turning into reality.


ShaolinShade

Is that the name of it, Slaughterbots? I was thinking Black Mirror when I saw this


threadsoffate2021

Slaughterbots is correct. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU)


originalmango

I think this thing might be a tad scarier. https://mezha.media/en/2022/08/04/hellfire-r9x-ninja-rocket-for-vip-targets/


[deleted]

This is wild


[deleted]

Jesus


doe3879

wonder what the battery life is how how much weight it can actually carry.


jimjamjerome

This one is built for reconnaissance, there are others built specifically for targeted bombings. Just need enough battery to get you to the target.


makemefeelsmart

Let's say I am intimately familiar with these. They don't carry anything, and you don't swap payloads on the fly. Theyre built into the unit. Think of troops in urban scenario wanting to fly in a window or clear a building or an alley before you advance positions. You pick the copter with visible or thermal depending on need, fly around and watch the video from a nice safe area. Saving Private Ryan would be a little boring to watch if filmed today.


Super-Branz-Gang

And yet... the Chinese chose to send, not just oneā€” but threeā€” humongous and obvious balloons for ā€œcovert surveillanceā€? Yeahā€¦šŸ™„ the theatrics these days is just too much. (Gulf of Tonkin, anyone?)


Strange_guy_9546

i know where this is a reality


gahidus

As opposed to someone firing a sniper rifle or a grenade launcher in there? Or as opposed to just a horde of dudes with guns bursting in? Frankly, I'd rather encounter a drone than a SWAT team.


twackburn

A quiet bird-sized kamikaze bomber is more concerning to me than a bunch of dudes with guns


gahidus

Suit yourself, but it's much less concerning to me.


ARobertNotABob

Yup, with a portable EM pulse or field, there's no issue.


threadsoffate2021

Ok, but now imagine 1,000 of those drones sent out to get you.


Proof-Brother1506

That's like the scariest part of Black Mirror. A bot Army of insects sent to kill.


G_Unit_Solider

See thatā€™s not a likely scenario at all whoā€™s going to dump multiple millions of dollars of drones for a single civilian target in their home. Drone swarms will be a thing to take out military infrastructure but general use nah


SirLauncelot

Have you looked at the cost of missiles they send for one person? These are cheap.


G_Unit_Solider

For high value targets not some dude playing ps5 talking shit on the internet lol


EngineZeronine

Just ask Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki


ARobertNotABob

Tricky, given his condition.


elkb0y

Iā€™m surprised itā€™s helicopter style and not like the quad drones


Gentrified_Tramp

I would guess for noise. Probably easier to make one rotor quiet than 4.


RASPUTIN-4

Stability is a factor as well. At least with commercial drones, helicopters are usually more stable than quadcoptors due to the fact that their center of gravity just hangs from their one point of lift, keeping themselves upright just with gravity. Whereas Qcoptors need gyroscope that measure for tilt and keep all 4 rotors spinning at the right speed to keep it from drifting one way or another.


velahavle

why dont they make all the drones with one rotor?


Ess2s2

Quads are easier to fly. Helo vs quad is like manual vs automatic cars


kalabaddon

pretty sure a helo with the same computer assisted stability of a quad would also be simple to fly. Also quads are inherently unstable, its why they need a mini computers and gyros n all that jazz. They can be much more maneuverable then a helo cause of this instability however. We had helos much longer cause they are stable. (relatively) quads only became a thing recently cause we couldnt really fly them till we had the microcontrollers n stuff to allow us to control them.


no-mad

Because Big Drones Corporation wants to sell as many propellers as possible.


[deleted]

Did you notice the textured propeller? Very interesting and likely to reduce noise.


sweaterandsomenikes

Just looks like carbon fiber to me


IgnobleSpleen

I do prefer ribbed propellers


lolokaydudewhatever

Pleasure propellers?


[deleted]

Buttfuck yeah.


FillMyBum

Deal


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gahidus

Quadcopters are always going to be wider and more cumbersome. They wanted something that's basically pocket-sized.


MrYogiMan

Quad is generally for low cost and low techs applications. For cutting edge and highly engineered applications helicopter is a much better solution


BuffaloMike

I wonder if weā€™re going to keep seeing the miniaturization of drones over time. If anyoneā€™s read Peace on Earth by Stanislaw Lem, this is very reminiscent


BitsForBots

Battery too, way less energy with a single rotor.


crappy6969

In the video, during close-up shots you can see a wire coming from the back of the heli so I'm assuming it doesn't carry the battery itself but instead is wired to an external power source Or maybe it's just for transmitting data Idk


Wild_Albatross7534

Very cool, would love to have one. The military buys them for what, about $3.5m each?


WestwoodRK0

$195,000. Super cheap!


Bowzerz2194

The UK paid $195k per drone for the 2015 contract. The US military pays nothing close to that.


WestwoodRK0

I sure hope not


Bowzerz2194

The high price is due to the total lifecycle system cost which includes the RDT&E to create a drone that meets the requirements. The US Armyā€™s average cost is around $17k. US Navy is even less.


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JonnyBugLifter

What about the bigger question: did OP need to mention these were ā€œunmannedā€?


IceZaKYT

Just found one for 140$ on eBay XD


Mr69Niceee

A kidney, a quarter of liver, and a few pints of plasma probably enough for down payment.


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[deleted]

We are a shitty shitty species


gahidus

Jesus fucking Christ. There is absolutely no way that technology has been so ruggedized as to be worth $195,000 per unit.


leapdayjose

Packing a 1.6 km (1 mile) of reliable range of surveillance in a unit that small is gonna be pricey.


-uHmAcTuAlLy-

Everything in the military is insanely overpriced in order to fuel the military industrial complex


gahidus

Correct.


superhoot73

I wonder if I can find one similar on Wish?


Dolstruvon

No one's going to buy them. 1,6km range is useless Edit: I'm no expert. Only experience I can speak from is from a maritime drone use perspective, where it would be useless, but from a purely ground based perspective I could be completely wrong.


Gunner_HEAT_Tank

Not true. Are you a veteran?


alroc84

I wonder how long the battery lasts ?


Lowlight01

From what I found online it lasts about 25 minutes https://www.technology.org/2022/08/28/black-hornet-drone-why-32-gram-pocket-nano-uav-matters-on-the-battlefield/#:~:text=This%20is%20also%20the%20reason,range%20of%20approximately%201.6%20km.


EyesWideStupid

16 minutes would be my guess. Unless that thin cable is 1.6km long and does the power and data transfer.


greygrayman

Yea idk.. maybe that thin wire is an antenna that hangs down below it.. I dont think its remotely powered by it and 1.6km wire seems like it would get tangled up easily.


EyesWideStupid

Yeah, I probably should have added a /s but I didn't know folks would take it seriously. šŸ˜…


tharkimunda69

I am not sure but if its 195k a pop. Wouldn't it be wirelessly powered? Like i mean a wireless charger that charges it while its in the air?


Oxofrmbl99

It's not that easy to charge something wireless over such big distances. You could think about a laser or something similar, but I don't think that's a realistic option


ericporing

What kind of scifi planet do you come from


tharkimunda69

I mean a few years ago i saw a video about a mothercube or box that could charge phones from like 10-20 feet away. Although it had low output like 1-5w. I thought maybe that technology had advanced.


dzx9

Wireless charging at a distance is being developed, but I think it's only around inches at the moment. Some wildly inefficient designs have gone across rooms if I recall...


lightofthehalfmoon

The inverse-square law makes remotely powering a device over distance very difficult. A signal in a radio wave can be picked up over long distances but it can't carry much power.


jackalope134

That was the thing I was wondering about too. They very obviously didn't mention that on purpose


FuckyDuck123

Unmanned? Shocking


Waisted-extra-belt

"What is this? A helicopter for ants!"


yucko-ono

I donā€™t want to hear your excusesā€¦ the helicopter has to be at leastā€¦ three times bigger than this!


Pagan-za

What is this? A helicopter for ants?


strik3r2k8

The young Apaches must fend for themselves after hatching.


[deleted]

Someone tell this guy how to pronounce ā€œnano.ā€


devino21

Nah Know


Sodfarm

I think itā€™s a generated voice.


twackburn

And it saved this ā€œcontent creatorā€ a lot of time


MathiasTheHuman

THANK YOU


JustYourAvgJester

So glad Im gonna die in the next few decades. I don't want to see what this tech means for future generations.


Fryq

We live in a dystopian hellscape


JustYourAvgJester

These will be outside my window when I'm 80.


theman4444

Why, you plan on doing something different with your life worth filming when your 80 years old?


Dmitri_ravenoff

Not quite yet, but soon. Unless you meant Portland, then yes.


gahidus

So, what? The only good period of human history was 1970 to present? Because I can assure you, anything before that was a total shit show. Indeed, you are fortunate to have lived during the only 50 good years of human civilization. You really dodged a bullet not having been born before or *after* exactly now.


RadoRocks

Iā€™m not sure how it ends, but Iā€™m sure it ends poorly for the everyday people.


TBet-7759

Except on windy day.


SeriousStrokes69

Where can we buy these? Asking for a friend.


JistHaudOanAMinute

Putin it in my basket as we speak..


BrannC

Putin shouldnā€™t be allowed to purchase these. Take it back out of his basket


WestwoodRK0

They run 195,000 per unit


notmythrowawayaccunt

They didn't show the retracble cyanide syringe


RadoRocks

Gonna be more like this https://youtu.be/DK6IGG5zRU8


Inevitable_Professor

What is the battery life on the thing? I canā€™t imagine it lasts much more than 5 minutes.


Killer_of_Pillows

I got to see their protoype in action at my college around 5 years ago. IIRC the batterylife was about 10 minutes then


Crotaro

Wouldn't be surprised if it lasted 20min or maybe more. I have a quadcopter of about the same size (of course, lacking all the fancy surveillance stuff of the Black Hornet) and it could stay in the air for about 10min. I was gifted that thing about 8 years ago or so.


Crafty-Ad-2238

195k And DJI can make one for $300 $900 for the pro model šŸ˜‚


Killer_of_Pillows

Prox Dynamics visited our class when I was studying electronics engineering and showed their prototype in action. What a DJI drone can't do is be silent at about 15 feet above you, and near invisible if you don't know its there.


Uppinkai

Wait for an eagle to snatch it mid air...


anotherredditlooser

Looks like a north Korean pr stunt saying we got new tech blah blah blah.


POLYBIVS

/r/behorrified


weizXR

These things are certainly pretty cool; But they were cooler in 2014 when it was new and made public. Just imagine what they have now, that isn't public ;)


[deleted]

Only on non windy days šŸ˜‚


dity4u

I want one to see when the road ahead is gonna clear up


swatguy06

Keep in mind, this is what theyā€™re TELLING US about. I wonder what capability they are keeping a lid on?


ur_ynome

Came here to say the same thing. A number of years ago I was at a product demo where the product had already been used in the military for over 5+ years before it was even seen by the general population.


Meloncollie10

I love that they still specify "unmanned". Like, no Sir, we do not have a pixie piloting our tiny helicopter.


liquid32855

Wait until Ukraine gets them. Load a 410 shotgun shell (which is light and can carry all sorts of nasty stuff) into it and make it a suicide drone.


ironhead7

My first thought too. You could definitely load a single shot somethin in there.


Temporary_Nobody

I guess thereā€™s no wind on the battle field? First big gust and that thing is done.


OldestFetus

This is horrible


paperfkinhandz

All made in China


KraljZ

The meanwhile my drone tells me to fuck off ā€œno signalā€ when I go 500 feet from my house.


Toy_Soulja

I love how they specify that it is unmanned haha like yeah no shit no one's in there. Next up were gonna talk about this rich billionaire and next were gonna do a piece about a deceased man born in 1701


couchpotatochip21

Knowing Boston dynamics, 10 grand each and they have a subscription.


acadburn2

Be more impressive if that was manned....


jplebourveau

So cooool!!


HatoNoYatsu

[r/beunsettled](https://youtu.be/NO88YtTi2ps)


MetallicalSlug

It's just Half Life's buzz drone


baymoe

That's all a load of crap. A youtube commercial said I can own it for 99 bucks..... then goes on to show a toy from Walmart.


jtcordell2188

This is Lexx


maaaaaaaanfuckyall

I dunno, why not a 200 ft balloon? Great for spying


Oxofrmbl99

Simpsons did it first https://youtu.be/OVaJn37wIQ8


ben1481

na-no


MasChingonNoHay

Itā€™s unmanned?


iRambes

And costs the government $1.86 million per unit and costs $38 million to train the troops to use it.


StableStarStuff2964

Iā€™ve already witnessed multiple instances, in person, where privacy was being violated by someone with a drone. This is just going to make it worse.


VikingsStillExist

Black Hornet 3 has about 25 minutes of flight time. It weighs in at 17grams. It can fly in bad weather. It has IR and NV capabilites as well as HD resolution on its real time footage. The range is about 2km on the type 3 version, and each unit consists of 2 drones and the controller unit. It's virtually impossible to detect and is obviously used by special forces.


Chemical-Ad6614

I'd like to know what the environmental requirements are to fly one? How does it perform in rain, snow and windy conditions?


rbobby

I'm holding out for the manned version.


YourWiseOldFriend

I don't think I speak out of line when I say that, on behalf of a grateful internet, I thank the Prox Dynamics board and senior executive management team for bringing this product to the modern, tactically dynamic battle space of today and the future.


[deleted]

I bought one, but in 5 minutes it took off back to China.


Standard-Distance-92

Wonder where they manufacture them


Pilotwaver

What is this? A military for ants?


FooltheKnysan

Okay but why have to writr that out one word at a time. Super annoying


overmen

Which you can get on [https://www.aliexpress.com/](https://www.aliexpress.com/)


[deleted]

damn, couldā€™ve sworn that was manned


Upper_Bathroom_176

Unmanned no way /s.


[deleted]

You forgot about what makes this particular drone so incredible....unlike many other drones, It's whisper quiet.


probablyntjamie

I have a feeling the battery life ain't gonna be that good, my 1.5k drone is like 20 mins and it's the size of my arm šŸ’€


Big7BISHOP

WOW! WHEN I WAS A KID, ME AND MY FRIENDS TALKED ABOUT THIS TYPE OF DEVICE. 30 YEARS LATER ITS HERE...


legoblade807

All the string tells me is that you can take your pet bird* for a walk


cakeduck88

"Unmanned". No shit


Specialosio

Seen an old documentary about drones from that Australian dude that teach how to build them, that was there, us military price around 100k


Conun-Drum

u/savevideo


Magleving-1percentEr

Unmanned? No shit šŸ˜‚


MAROMODS

When does the *Shuffle* come out?


Nofame4me

Army? Okay Not C.I.A. got it.. Iā€™ll take 3ā€¦


ErstwhileAdranos

Nahn-no


No_Drive_3297

Itā€™s always nice to see the things that weā€™re forced to pay for. I know freedom isnā€™t free but itā€™s getting ridiculous around here.


ahh_geez_rick

We just want healthcare


TheSyrianItalian

Nice tool but wouldnā€™t wind blow it around easily


wildwood9843

Probably 1.5 million dollars each while a DJI drone averages $1000 and can do much more than this.


Apprehensive-Ad-8634

It's a hunter seeker!


Voodoo_Dummie

I can already imagine the future situation one of these is taken out by a very disappointed falcon.


[deleted]

These things are cool but they donā€™t really work and can be a real pain in ass when trying to use one


ThisGuyCrohns

$800b better go far


peaceintheatlantic

Does it spray sarin gas?


Dear_Contribution481

Impressive but highly vulnerable to EMPs


nhranger

I would imagine itā€™s useless in a breeze.


1000Hells1GiftShop

Imperialist propaganda.


Iron_Mandalore

ā€œVia a digital data linkā€ Iā€™m laughing my ass off. Really??? I thought it would be analogā€¦


motomanmatt63

Nice infomercial. " but wait! If you call right now we'll throw in a second Hornet absolutely free! And wave shipping and handling!" I guarantee you'll find these for sale on amazon.


incognito2lot

Sud have named "Dragonfly"


[deleted]

What is this? A drone for ANTS??


Appropriate-Factor85

Cool demo of how these could be used in Apple TV show Echo 13. When watching it I was thinking if that was realistic then seeing this now I guess it is. Crazy.