[QUOTE][U][B]Coming soon: swarms of mechanized eagles.[/B][/U]
1. A Spanish defense company, Expal, is manufacturing drones camouflaged to look like large birds.
“Nobody can tell it's a spy because it's designed to the exact body shape and feather pattern of [an] eagle,” Sofía Alfaro Marco, branding manager of Expal, told the Guardian. “We can design it to look like any large bird, depending on the location of the client.”
The bird-drone can fly only 33 feet above its target, the paper also reports, compared with the more than 3,000 feet required with other drones. As Joane McNeil wrote:
[I]not really ready for a future of mecha-eagles spying on me [URL="http://t.co/PC9iYoRHXT"]http://t.co/PC9iYoRHXT[/URL] ("did that swoop look glitchy to you?")
— joanne mcneil (@jomc) October 3, 2013[/I]
2. Drone amateurs are testing drone swarms. At GeoDC, a technology meet-up last night in Washington, Harvard researcher [U]John Crowley[/U] described using packs of drones to feed information about thermal updrafts and location to each other. If they can teach drones to swarms, he said, according to [U]a transcription[/U]:
[I]we can cover large areas very quickly. It also turns out that communicating thermals and their location enables these UAVs to stay up for a very long time, because they tell each other where to find the place to give them lift, and that greatly reduces fuel and gives us a lot of airtime.[/I]
3. The United States and Japan will collaborate on a long-distance drone partnership in order to surveil remote islands. Reports the AP:
[I]The drones [...] are designed in part to help step up surveillance around the Senkaku islands, a source of heated debate between Japan and China. Under the plan, two or three will fly out of a U.S. base. While the U.S. has operated unmanned aircraft over Japan in the past, for example during the 2011 tsunami, this would be the first time that drones would be based in Japan.[/I]
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[editline]3rd October 2013[/editline]
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I can definitely see having a drone camouflaged as a bald eagle will help in the Middle East
Drone strikes sure should look impressive now.
Wouldn't they want to not reveal this so people won't be looking for eagle spy drones?
[QUOTE=kiloy;42399724]Wouldn't they want to not reveal this so people won't be looking for eagle spy drones?[/QUOTE]
Paranoid rednecks are going to drive eagles back onto the endangered species list :v:
Also is it that hard to see the difference between an eagle and a drone painted like an eagle?
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/rrQYcaj.jpg[/IMG]
Here it is.
If they painted them to look like Bald Eagles the irony would be fatal.
~[I]so much freedom[/I]~
Eagle drones do seem like they would fit in nicely in Team America.
Get a vulture as a drone and put a gun on it
They should emit commands in a creepy robotic voice, that would be cool too.
Sounds like something out of Bioshock Infinite.
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