I know the journalist, his name is Espen Steingaard and works in Norwegian broadcasting. He had to shoot and edit the whole shit very quick. He edited the capture in his laptop and added a voiceover. The nearest wc became his office for 20 minutes.
"Paul is the drone's target. He is going to hide. About 1km away, at the top of small cliff" Next to the stone shaped as a cube behind the tree with no leaves among a forest, where no other tree suffers from leaf-loss. Yeah, this is indeed "reconnaissance". :D
Lol, "hes hiding about 1km away, on top of a cliff due northwest from us, at exactly these coordinates we've put into the drones GPS, let's see if we can make him out from the three pixels our three cameras provide!"
PeyoteIguana That thing performs way better than a mall helicopter. It's closer in performance to collective pitch hobby micros but seems a lot simpler mechanically as well. If you've ever owned one of those things you know that keeping them running is like working on a watch and are incredibly hard to fly (they are basically full scale helicopters in micro form). This thing seems to have the performance without the associated mechanical complexity and difficult control.
+GremlinFPV Have you tried Naze32 mini with 10dof and MAX7Q GPS? 2g GPS modules are available. You can have longer video range with a 200mW module,also only a few grams if you choose the right one.
The point of this drone is that it is SO small, and therefore stealthy. The design principle of making the target weight a priority, rather than down-scaling, is correct. Kudos to these engineers. Now if thermal imaging can be brought aboard, it will be an incredible platform. And Cheap. And available to all. Shazbot!
@@Faddnn What do you mean "you can't compare?" Of course you can. There is absolutely nothing technologically challenging or especially advanced about this thing and there is no way in hell they're worth 10k a pop. That's a farce but then most military spending is.
@@gblan 1. You hear the cheap drone hovering over you. 2. The military drone is much lighter and smaller. 3. The military drone is mad by only high end components. 4. The software/hardware is much more advanced and comes with more features 5. The military drone is made to opperate in combate situations. I mean, there is a reason why military all over this world sign contracts with these guys and not with a toy manufacturer.
@ronnie doorzon It like asking why your not buying a RTX 2060 instead of the PNY Quadro... These drones do not have the same requirments when it comes to safety, they are not the same size and if you are not aware they keep updatting the military drone as well. This version is not the same as the current.
Oh yeah I would definitely buy this, I just gotta hope my enemy is standing still in an open field waiting for me to come so I can find him. Best invention ever
mPky1 There is no way these things purchased in bulk will cost 200k and building schools and hospitals are state funded projects, these will not take away from them at all.
20 min is a lot of time for a small heli like this! The toy market last 7 - 8 min. My big drone last 15 - 20 min. and that cost is over $500 bucks. But I can get battery upgrade for 25 min.
Very cool, but I'm a bit confused about the price. Nearly $200,000 for the whole setup? I realize that this is a piece of military hardware, but I could build something similar (not as small) for less than five thousand dollars out of an Align Trex 700 or 800e with GPS, autopilot, first person cameras, electronic stabilization, a higher operational ceiling, and could potentially carry weapons. Tack on another 10-15 thousand and I could throw in a thermal camera.
***** FPS russia had a quadcopter that had a UMP45 on board. it was also tough as shit as he shot it several times before it would crash...but i have no idea how much it is.
where did you found for 20k hely?? haha, tell me, i am going to buy. but..please you do research, the cheapest lightweight hely costs 500k. 20k maybe hang-glider?
Vitia Mironencko Once again if you do your research you can own a helicopter that seats 1 person for 20k. This is still qualified as a helicopter because it does indeed have two rotor blades. I could see how you could confuse that for a hang-glider.
- imagine a hive of a dozen of hornet patrolling & searching ...remote controlled with artificial intelligent autonomous computer that observe any movement or change & send it to the commander ... compare the cost with a dozen of guarding & soldiers & vehicles ... also compare the stealth , casualties if scouting or patrolling soldiers targeted by enemy also who could you target or even observe a small drone like that , the speed , postilion of watching (eyesight )... etc - I will no talk about locality & personal errors
Excellent job to cram so many features into such a small package. Bravo!👏 I was thinking that the white body would be a bit conspicuous though, maybe area appropriate camo is used in the field?
Those are just cheap toys, nowhere near capable of what this thing can do. You'd be lucky to get enough range with one of those "mall" toys to actually fly it out of the mall, from the place where the Indian salesman was! 😂
Таких дронов можно по-идее будет перехватывать (в малом корпусе скорее всего не будет сильного шифрования канала), либо просто засорять эфир, чтобы они потеряли управление. Также никто не говорит, но ведь источник управления может быть обнаружен по источнику сигнала и устранён, об этом почему то никто не говорит, видимо, расчёт, что использоваться будет против сил не имеющих таких технологий.
I'm glad he designed this. I have about 12 tiny helicopters And 7 tiny whoops , the whoops all have 5.8 F.P.V. cameras 😎👍 The kid down the street , has even more of them than i do 😀
A lot of people can build a quad-rotor out of self contained, modular parts that can do autonomous flight and surveillance for a fraction of the cost. All these guys are doing is taking already existing technology and soldering it onto one PCB.
In the beginning, the announcer with the muffled voice said the 'target' was hiding over a kilometer away. But at the end, he said the helicopter traveled 1300 meters. If they found the target, was directly overhead of him, and traveled back, while he was over 1km away, the helicopter would have had to travel over 2000 meters round trip. Therefore, I call bullshit.
@1:02 "It quickly reaches a top speed of about 20 klicks". A klick is jargon for kilometer, so the top speed 20 kilometers? That makes no sense. Did the narrator mean it can move at 20 kilometers per hour or was he saying the maximum distance on one charge is 20 kilometers?
Seriously? If any government wants this, they should just go to amazon. Hope they have prime! Anyways, I could get something with higher resolution for less than 1000 dollars.
Awful video quality, poor maneuverability, probably poor flight time and much too noisy. I guess it's good enough for government work.At any rate it's government-priced.
uhm... hobby grade mini helicopters with the same maneuverability can only fly 6-10 mins at a time.. its it slower and heavier than the black hornet plus the black hornet have 3 cameras on it
RC4ddict What are you talking about. Look ate the rotor and head design. It looks like those first small rc heli like Picooz. This can fly only forward, can't fly backward, hover etc. Cheap modern 4ch rc heli like v911 is beating this black hornet in every aspect.
shodanxx folks are forgetting that quadcopters require more electricity. this thing is sophisticated enough to be as performant with a traditional copter design. it needs to be skinny and small so as to be undetectable and so the war fighter can fit as many as possible with the least amount of wait in his kit.
tewkewl even if it's undetectable from your eyes we all do have ears right? ..listening to something like this is obvious, better do something about the motor noise, either make it total stealth or make it sound like birds or something
Micro transmitters could transmit to beacons on the GSM network (phones). The system wouldn't have to return to home as that would be wasting a lot of power. Better to get as much surveillance out of the little beast and when it runs out of power, it'll crash and self ignite. Alternatively, the receiver would be within a few miles that would have a helix antenna for long range reception (10Km etc).
digitalbroadcaster What a great military strategy! Install GSM towers and cell phone base station buildings around the enemy location before spying on them! Alternatively, we can place a 50 pound Lithium Ion battery on that little sucka so it can transmit 10 km!
do you know how much money is poured into developing the $5 optical mouse that we can get on ebay these days? Do you know how much money 3M used to develop the sticky note which only costs you a few bucks for a 100 of them? Making something never exist before and bring it into reality is gold. Well... despite of the fact that if the design will be profitable and become popular or not. Not to mention aerodynamic is hard. Aerodynamic is hard math and engineering.... the "worst" kind of engineering....
Well, low volume production and r&d mockups will cost more on paper. Think how much the first iPhone before they went into production cost. All of the development time for iOS, the touch screen, camera, battery, processor etc would be lumped into that single unit. Mass producing them though after all of that is setup means 50 bucks a pop. I'm fairly certain the negotiated price to keep them out of the hands of the enemy also has something to do with their inflated value. Force the enemy to develop their own by keeping the price artificially high. It's a tactic, not an abuse.
other than its large range ... i dont know why it costs so much. even so, 10K is way to much to develop such a thing. put in consideration that a lot of tiny helis are sold out there.
i would like to see more video on how well it flys outside - B/c bring out 1 of them micro copters from the mall & it will fly away & never comes back.
"Each one costs tens of thousands of dollars" Yeah, if you sell to the military you can charge tens of thousands of dollars :) Since I build stuff like this I know how cheaply they can be made.
Most drones don't come with night vision, thermal imaging, have secure communication links, etc. they do more than shot video and take pictures. They are not toys.
rainbowsixODST You can get thermal imaging for about $200. Once the market reaches,the chinese makers will make ir imaging a basic functionality of toy drones. Secure communication is also basically encryption and path issue which the Chinese are well capable of. Norway has no technology and cannot even make ships. Europe does not have advanced communication technology and is getting economy aid in such from Korea.
Yup right, Norway cant build ships, they must be the worlds worst shipmaker. www.km.kongsberg.com/ks/web/nokbg0238.nsf/AllWeb/98A8C576AEFC85AFC125811A0037F6C4?OpenDocument
Wow! Since this is so easy and cheap why are there no videos posted here from you idiots that think you can build one of these for less than a $100? I don't understand how you think this is a toy. Yes you can buy rc heli's with gyro's on the cheap.....but guess what, they are basically garbage. So good luck following this one on the trip he demonstrated. Decent hobbygrade rc helis can cost up to $1000 and the real good ones can easily hit ten grand and take many man hours to build. There are none with these capabilities this tiny. A run of the mill gps unit is $300 and 3 times the size of that pd-100. A lithium polymer battery small enough to fit in there and power all the systems for this thing would be at least $200 alone. In the RC FPV world, something that fly's that far on a gps auto fn pilot costs minimum 4 figures and they are HUGE compared to this little guy.
I didn't see a target hiding on top of the cliff. I saw one out in the open looking up. But at 3:59, any one of those trees would have sufficiently hidden any person.
Imagine a team of search and rescue people using a half dozen larger versions of these to scour a valley for missing hikers. They could search the whole area in minutes without leaving the vehicle area. When the hikers are spotted, the team heads in the proper direction to make the rescue. The camera resolution would need to be increased to provide much better video, and bigger batteries for longer flight time. It needs to be more quiet if used for surveillance. How about a larger 5 bladed rotor with better blade design to make it silent?
Can it fly in windy conditions? Can it follow target? What about automated runs? Monitor an area assigning its own path ways. Can return to recharge when needed. Can it recover from crashing? Does it have thermal-vision? Current camera looked like crap. What db level does it have atm? Sounded pretty loud to me. Anyway. These kind of drones can be prevented with an electric-bubble aka electric-net. In combination with other protections Drones are not really a threat. Still a fun geeky technical challenge though. Very expensive but fun.
So this thing cost tens of thousands of dollars, and they were impressed it could go barely under 1km while getting what appears to be like 240p live feed. Fast forward 7 years to 2020 and you can buy a DJI Mavic mini 2 drone for like $400 and you can fly it up to 10km while having full control through a HD live feed. Technology is wild.
Why does the voiceover sound like it's recorded in a toilet?
have you ever heard of flushing meadows sound studio?
Paul Bolger Bitch Bitch.
I know the journalist, his name is Espen Steingaard and works in Norwegian broadcasting. He had to shoot and edit the whole shit very quick. He edited the capture in his laptop and added a voiceover. The nearest wc became his office for 20 minutes.
Because it is! He’s full of shit.
Paul Bolger maybe it was!
I love how they add helicopter buzzing sounds even though the thing is so quiet you can’t even hear it from two feet away
That guy on the cliff sucks at hiding.
That’s a insane hiding spot standing in the middle of a opening in the woods with a 20ft shadow
LOL the target was standing out in the open looking at the heli with a smile. what a tough target it was
tough with nokia camera quality.
Hey Now The DJI FPV motion controller
Damn this guy is the reason we now have awesome cheap mini rc helis. cheers bro.
"Paul is the drone's target. He is going to hide. About 1km away, at the top of small cliff" Next to the stone shaped as a cube behind the tree with no leaves among a forest, where no other tree suffers from leaf-loss. Yeah, this is indeed "reconnaissance". :D
Lol, "hes hiding about 1km away, on top of a cliff due northwest from us, at exactly these coordinates we've put into the drones GPS, let's see if we can make him out from the three pixels our three cameras provide!"
Of course the military would pay 30 grand for an Air Hog.
PeyoteIguana That thing performs way better than a mall helicopter. It's closer in performance to collective pitch hobby micros but seems a lot simpler mechanically as well. If you've ever owned one of those things you know that keeping them running is like working on a watch and are incredibly hard to fly (they are basically full scale helicopters in micro form). This thing seems to have the performance without the associated mechanical complexity and difficult control.
***** not really neither
+GremlinFPV Have you tried Naze32 mini with 10dof and MAX7Q GPS? 2g GPS modules are available. You can have longer video range with a 200mW module,also only a few grams if you choose the right one.
I dunno, does airhog sell helicopters with three internal cameras, one of which is infrared?
Tuna Funk the Dutch military just bought a few for 40 grand each.
The point of this drone is that it is SO small, and therefore stealthy. The design principle of making the target weight a priority, rather than down-scaling, is correct. Kudos to these engineers. Now if thermal imaging can be brought aboard, it will be an incredible platform. And Cheap. And available to all. Shazbot!
We were really impressed by this when it came out.
2020: Now we have the DJi Mavic Mini...
This is still better for what it is ment to be used for. You cant compare a cheap commercial drone with a drone made to meet millitary needs.
lmao
@@Faddnn What do you mean "you can't compare?" Of course you can. There is absolutely nothing technologically challenging or especially advanced about this thing and there is no way in hell they're worth 10k a pop. That's a farce but then most military spending is.
@@gblan 1. You hear the cheap drone hovering over you.
2. The military drone is much lighter and smaller.
3. The military drone is mad by only high end components.
4. The software/hardware is much more advanced and comes with more features
5. The military drone is made to opperate in combate situations.
I mean, there is a reason why military all over this world sign contracts with these guys and not with a toy manufacturer.
@ronnie doorzon It like asking why your not buying a RTX 2060 instead of the PNY Quadro... These drones do not have the same requirments when it comes to safety, they are not the same size and if you are not aware they keep updatting the military drone as well. This version is not the same as the current.
"They've located their target HIDING on the top of the cliff"
I don't think HIDING is the way to put it.
for tens of thousands of dollars I'll just buy a DJI Phantom, rig it with and HD camera and also mount a mini gun to finish the job. LOL.
Lekadol Si the new dji drones have ranges up to 7 kilometers
Buy dji mavic 2 with flir thermal camera. For way less
@@robertjarrard4541 Mavic Mini. 400 bucks US.
Do you even know how much a minigun weights ?
@@TheNefastor It could be a really really minigun. It would sting, maybe put an eye out.
Oh yeah I would definitely buy this, I just gotta hope my enemy is standing still in an open field waiting for me to come so I can find him. Best invention ever
1km range would detect enemies fine. I think.
The latest model of black hornet got much quieter, lighter and compact now.
could you point us to a video?
@@galgogergo th-cam.com/video/rm_xMuo2Ong/w-d-xo.html
Meh it’s more gimmicky and fad filled now. Not really a good package.
Also the buzzing is fake sound effects added.
@@kishascape do you have any reference to what you're saying?
Arnold Helibus was the first successful indoor helicopter. I had one as a child.
This is what you call a force multiplier. Individual squads in an infantry platoon could have these. On demand battlefield intelligence is priceless.
Every soldier could have one of these.
mPky1 There is no way these things purchased in bulk will cost 200k and building schools and hospitals are state funded projects, these will not take away from them at all.
Don't let your chilren grow up to be soldiers.
Incredibly compact UAV
'Target' was hiding? Yeah..sure...more like standing in the middle of open field, far from trees. Which enemy does that?
I like how it’s just 5 years ago and now we have better stuff as civilians
And way cheaper!
20 min is a lot of time for a small heli like this! The toy market last 7 - 8 min. My big drone last 15 - 20 min.
and that cost is over $500 bucks. But I can get battery upgrade for 25 min.
We can thank those people for making this world such a beautiful place to be...
"pocket sized" base station 0:53
this needs to be combined with 3d video technology and some lightweight VR glasses for the operator.
Very cool, but I'm a bit confused about the price. Nearly $200,000 for the whole setup? I realize that this is a piece of military hardware, but I could build something similar (not as small) for less than five thousand dollars out of an Align Trex 700 or 800e with GPS, autopilot, first person cameras, electronic stabilization, a higher operational ceiling, and could potentially carry weapons. Tack on another 10-15 thousand and I could throw in a thermal camera.
350.00 for your thermal camera if you buy the flir one and tear it apart.
You can get one for like, a grand, but it wont have the resolution of a military grade thermal cam
... of course you couldn't build one that small that could carry conventional weapons. How many conventional weapons are that small?
have you ever built a helicopter?
*****
FPS russia had a quadcopter that had a UMP45 on board. it was also tough as shit as he shot it several times before it would crash...but i have no idea how much it is.
"Far out and high up." Well spoken.
far out and high opp*
God i hate the narrator's voice
"listen to how science-y i am!"
+Morgan Blair sounds like hes speaking into a tin can lol
+Morgan Blair that's because he's a Cylon not a human.
+Morgan Blair That's how you know the people that made this video are hacks that all need to be fired.
My sentiment, exactly... It was cool for all of 5 seconds, then it just kept going...
Would you rather hear a rasta voice?
Interesting little UAV-Drone... Nano tech is growing.
See you in the skies.
Thats a high quality camera..
how does it turn without banking?
don't worry china will copy this too soon
Higor Polo and with a 80% less quality
err.. a product has to hit an acceptance level BEFORE china copies it. No paper-economy will WANT to copy this LOL
ive got one. its a piece of shit. worse than wltoys. and if you know wltoys, that's saying heaps.
SaintMeran lol!!! Then why did apple outsources it's work to China.?
You tards do not understand everything is being produced in China....highest quality products to lowest.
$195,000 ill just buy a full sized helicopter LOL
the cheapest helycopter in the world costs about $500 000. lol?
Vitia Mironencko There are helicopters as low as 20k I suggest you do more research before you become an expert.
where did you found for 20k hely?? haha, tell me, i am going to buy. but..please you do research, the cheapest lightweight hely costs 500k. 20k maybe hang-glider?
kole726 i forgot, you have to get expansive license for fly, but if in your country you can fly without license, then yeah, only 20k for hely
Vitia Mironencko Once again if you do your research you can own a helicopter that seats 1 person for 20k. This is still qualified as a helicopter because it does indeed have two rotor blades.
I could see how you could confuse that for a hang-glider.
Hiding standing up in a 30 ft clearing on top of a hill that they new he would be amazing
Great job, Congratulations
the narrator sounds like he's in a box..
A very impressive implementation.
The system is only available for government agencies; www.bssholland.com/#!en/products/nano-uas-pd-100-black-hornet.html
+BSS Holland Then don't make a TH-cam video about dummy.
+WankersCramp69 everybody know that obama browse youtube
+BSS Holland why does the government get all the cool stuff give me a drone and ill do a vlog.. for a pay check of course
Which explains why it's overpriced. I've seen better built by everyday people.
- imagine a hive of a dozen of hornet patrolling & searching ...remote controlled with artificial intelligent autonomous computer that observe any movement or change & send it to the commander ... compare the cost with a dozen of guarding & soldiers & vehicles ... also compare the stealth , casualties if scouting or patrolling soldiers targeted by enemy also who could you target or even observe a small drone like that , the speed , postilion of watching (eyesight )... etc
- I will no talk about locality & personal errors
Excellent job to cram so many features into such a small package. Bravo!👏
I was thinking that the white body would be a bit conspicuous though, maybe area appropriate camo is used in the field?
4:03 Yeah... "hiding"
I wonder if this has gimbal on it
Yep thats definitly a pocket sized base station
Wow, this is 2013 drone.
I see these things flying around in my local mall all the time. Usually flown by some Indian dude.
Stupid
Those are just cheap toys, nowhere near capable of what this thing can do. You'd be lucky to get enough range with one of those "mall" toys to actually fly it out of the mall, from the place where the Indian salesman was! 😂
@@mickmuzzmkmz1628 That thing can't do nothing, professional drones now a day are way better for 5% of the price!
@@joeltauficlaracastro8478 But "professional drones now a day" are 20 times bigger and have 20 times worse software.
@@deldrise9169 Nope.
Everybody gangsta till the black hornet starts flyin
Таких дронов можно по-идее будет перехватывать (в малом корпусе скорее всего не будет сильного шифрования канала), либо просто засорять эфир, чтобы они потеряли управление. Также никто не говорит, но ведь источник управления может быть обнаружен по источнику сигнала и устранён, об этом почему то никто не говорит, видимо, расчёт, что использоваться будет против сил не имеющих таких технологий.
можно, поэтому оно еще и не в деле. хотя тут и сказанопро gps и автоматику на неудачный случай
Vitia Mironencko так gps уже тогда теряется смысл: перебежали противники в др. место и всё, данные не актуальны.
***** вот когда террориста из какой-нибудь школы понадобится достать, то подобный дрон и пригодится
Vitia Mironencko если у террориста нет средств противодействия (что маловероятно, но нельзя исключать), то да, согласен.
Bhh- hy
Very nice drone
Darth Vader narrating this??
Curious about THAT battery tech. And what, ocusync 8.0? :p
particularly important, battery life =)
I'm glad he designed this.
I have about 12 tiny helicopters
And 7 tiny whoops , the whoops all have 5.8 F.P.V. cameras 😎👍
The kid down the street , has even more of them than i do
😀
A lot of people can build a quad-rotor out of self contained, modular parts that can do autonomous flight and surveillance for a fraction of the cost. All these guys are doing is taking already existing technology and soldering it onto one PCB.
Balle Klorin They do just search : How to build a drone it is quite simple
Found the target hiding. Yes out in a open area. Im a quad pilot myself so i uderstand what your talking about. Very cool heli though. Well done!
In the beginning, the announcer with the muffled voice said the 'target' was hiding over a kilometer away. But at the end, he said the helicopter traveled 1300 meters. If they found the target, was directly overhead of him, and traveled back, while he was over 1km away, the helicopter would have had to travel over 2000 meters round trip.
Therefore, I call bullshit.
Zordon was a narrator?
Or you can just use a racing drone and employed a fpv pro drone pilot to find the target
But they need to spend those 195,000/Piece , You know ;-)
With much better resolution too.
@1:02 "It quickly reaches a top speed of about 20 klicks". A klick is jargon for kilometer, so the top speed 20 kilometers? That makes no sense. Did the narrator mean it can move at 20 kilometers per hour or was he saying the maximum distance on one charge is 20 kilometers?
Dear Santa...
Looks like it uses coils/magnets for the cyclic control?
What is wrong with the narrator audio
I tried to be cool once.
soundcloud.com/the-looking-men/be-cool
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Excellent job by our friend's company
Seriously? If any government wants this, they should just go to amazon. Hope they have prime! Anyways, I could get something with higher resolution for less than 1000 dollars.
But something with two cameras and one FLIR camera, that can fly in mountain terrain and works for 90 minutes on average?
@@odinlindeberg4624 No No, the maximum flight endurance is 18 minutes that too if it's Hovering at a spot. Get your Facts Right Dude.
Take a look at multiplex´s funcopter, i know its larger but there was one smaller modified version of it
Awful video quality, poor maneuverability, probably poor flight time and much too noisy.
I guess it's good enough for government work.At any rate it's government-priced.
uhm... hobby grade mini helicopters with the same maneuverability can only fly 6-10 mins at a time.. its it slower and heavier than the black hornet
plus the black hornet have 3 cameras on it
RC4ddict What are you talking about. Look ate the rotor and head design. It looks like those first small rc heli like Picooz. This can fly only forward, can't fly backward, hover etc. Cheap modern 4ch rc heli like v911 is beating this black hornet in every aspect.
shodanxx folks are forgetting that quadcopters require more electricity. this thing is sophisticated enough to be as performant with a traditional copter design. it needs to be skinny and small so as to be undetectable and so the war fighter can fit as many as possible with the least amount of wait in his kit.
tewkewl even if it's undetectable from your eyes we all do have ears right? ..listening to something like this is obvious, better do something about the motor noise, either make it total stealth or make it sound like birds or something
crackerworld FYI the filmmakers actually added noise to the movie for the "effect". The helicopter is effectivly inaudible in real life :-)
Can purchase it
Why not buy a Hubsan with better cam for 50 busks? 10.000 dollars for a gps? I Think i Can make one for 100$, with the same specs
The price was the cost of that prototype!
I can't imagine the battery life is that long. Probably uses a capacitor to hold a charge like the kids toys. An amazing design though
and soon you'll be able to 3d print most parts of it and then just go buy small cameras and all the other stuff and build one for less than 100$...
how does it fly outside with this little size without the wind blowing it away...?
Tens of thousands of dollars/pounds/currency?!!! Ridiculous amount of money for just a 'model' with a camera and GPS!
They probably take in to accaunt the development costs as well
*****
perhaps they should have spent some of those "costs" on a better camera, you can get 7 quid key ring cams giving better footage lol
Micro transmitters could transmit to beacons on the GSM network (phones). The system wouldn't have to return to home as that would be wasting a lot of power. Better to get as much surveillance out of the little beast and when it runs out of power, it'll crash and self ignite.
Alternatively, the receiver would be within a few miles that would have a helix antenna for long range reception (10Km etc).
digitalbroadcaster What a great military strategy! Install GSM towers and cell phone base station buildings around the enemy location before spying on them!
Alternatively, we can place a 50 pound Lithium Ion battery on that little sucka so it can transmit 10 km!
Ah, but they do use portable GSM systems to monitor GSM traffic. Encoding and encrypting a video codec to send in packets would be easy enough.
Excellent videos bro
$195, 000.00????
wow!
direct brushless motor gear?
fixed pitch? %)
10k USD ! :D
now you can buy smt like this for 100 USD :D
China... you did it again...
Really liked this video its just awesome. Cheers from Sint Maarten
why the fuck does it costs 10s of thousands of dollars?
do you know how much money is poured into developing the $5 optical mouse that we can get on ebay these days? Do you know how much money 3M used to develop the sticky note which only costs you a few bucks for a 100 of them? Making something never exist before and bring it into reality is gold. Well... despite of the fact that if the design will be profitable and become popular or not. Not to mention aerodynamic is hard. Aerodynamic is hard math and engineering.... the "worst" kind of engineering....
Well, low volume production and r&d mockups will cost more on paper. Think how much the first iPhone before they went into production cost. All of the development time for iOS, the touch screen, camera, battery, processor etc would be lumped into that single unit. Mass producing them though after all of that is setup means 50 bucks a pop.
I'm fairly certain the negotiated price to keep them out of the hands of the enemy also has something to do with their inflated value. Force the enemy to develop their own by keeping the price artificially high. It's a tactic, not an abuse.
other than its large range ... i dont know why it costs so much. even so, 10K is way to much to develop such a thing. put in consideration that a lot of tiny helis are sold out there.
i would like to see more video on how well it flys outside - B/c bring out 1 of them micro copters from the mall & it will fly away & never comes back.
"Each one costs tens of thousands of dollars"
Yeah, if you sell to the military you can charge tens of thousands of dollars :) Since I build stuff like this I know how cheaply they can be made.
Impressive! I assume the production military versions will be camoflaged rather than stark black and white.
Tens of thousands of dollars for what cost less than $100 to make, another way to waste tax payers money.
+Iyke Gbench We all know why.
Most drones don't come with night vision, thermal imaging, have secure communication links, etc. they do more than shot video and take pictures. They are not toys.
rainbowsixODST You can get thermal imaging for about $200. Once the market reaches,the chinese makers will make ir imaging a basic functionality of toy drones. Secure communication is also basically encryption and path issue which the Chinese are well capable of. Norway has no technology and cannot even make ships. Europe does not have advanced communication technology and is getting economy aid in such from Korea.
Yup right, Norway cant build ships, they must be the worlds worst shipmaker.
www.km.kongsberg.com/ks/web/nokbg0238.nsf/AllWeb/98A8C576AEFC85AFC125811A0037F6C4?OpenDocument
are you sure that video quality is enough to use in real battle
Wow! Since this is so easy and cheap why are there no videos posted here from you idiots that think you can build one of these for less than a $100? I don't understand how you think this is a toy. Yes you can buy rc heli's with gyro's on the cheap.....but guess what, they are basically garbage. So good luck following this one on the trip he demonstrated. Decent hobbygrade rc helis can cost up to $1000 and the real good ones can easily hit ten grand and take many man hours to build. There are none with these capabilities this tiny. A run of the mill gps unit is $300 and 3 times the size of that pd-100. A lithium polymer battery small enough to fit in there and power all the systems for this thing would be at least $200 alone. In the RC FPV world, something that fly's that far on a gps auto fn pilot costs minimum 4 figures and they are HUGE compared to this little guy.
Don't use logic and reason on TH-cam!
Ya I know, I forgot...lol
did you kniw about DJI mavic ...
I wonder what the battery is made of and how big, current draw must be high?
What radio goes 1000 meters connecting it?
Little wind and bye bye drone :D
is it a brushless copter?
Is it sell for public or just militery?
It needs thermal imaging , and a nice camo
''spycam'' makes more noise than hell itself
I didn't see a target hiding on top of the cliff. I saw one out in the open looking up. But at 3:59, any one of those trees would have sufficiently hidden any person.
Hey do tou know sonic the movie in the trailer their was a drone like dis one
Imagine a team of search and rescue people using a half dozen larger versions of these to scour a valley for missing hikers. They could search the whole area in minutes without leaving the vehicle area. When the hikers are spotted, the team heads in the proper direction to make the rescue. The camera resolution would need to be increased to provide much better video, and bigger batteries for longer flight time.
It needs to be more quiet if used for surveillance. How about a larger 5 bladed rotor with better blade design to make it silent?
When they say 'hiding on the top of the cliff' they meant standing in clear view.
Now this is a drone. A vehical capable of fully autonomous operation. Yet some people call every multi rotor on the market a drone.
brushless?
What’s it like in the wind?
Can it fly in windy conditions?
Can it follow target?
What about automated runs? Monitor an area assigning its own path ways. Can return to recharge when needed.
Can it recover from crashing?
Does it have thermal-vision? Current camera looked like crap.
What db level does it have atm? Sounded pretty loud to me.
Anyway. These kind of drones can be prevented with an electric-bubble aka electric-net.
In combination with other protections Drones are not really a threat.
Still a fun geeky technical challenge though. Very expensive but fun.
holy crap, that thing is compact
So this thing cost tens of thousands of dollars, and they were impressed it could go barely under 1km while getting what appears to be like 240p live feed. Fast forward 7 years to 2020 and you can buy a DJI Mavic mini 2 drone for like $400 and you can fly it up to 10km while having full control through a HD live feed. Technology is wild.
Did they mount a camera from a Nokia 3310 in it?