"I don't want my drone to explode! What's the point? I paid a lotta money for this drone!"
Posted on 10/11/2019 6:52:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Strong global investment into drones is resulting in new business use cases emerging within the market, as well as potential regulatory changes, according to new research from CompTIA.
According to the Drone Industry Insights, the global market for drone technologies will reach US$43.1 billion by 2024, which is up from $14.1 billion in 2018.
Furthermore, until recently, use cases for drones have been closely tied to military and recreational applications with little consideration for the way these technologies could be used in the business community. However, this is shifting as revenue and profit opportunities increase.
Channel Dynamics cofounder and director, and CompTIA director ANZ Channel Community, Moheb Moses says, “With commercial drone services taking on an expanding role in the business world, companies are examining how best to use unmanned vehicle systems to deliver even more value and productivity.”
“There is potentially a significant untapped market potential for drone manufacturers, drone solution providers (DSPs), managed service providers (MSPs), distributors, operators, and others in the drone ecosystem.
(Excerpt) Read more at itbrief.com.au ...
There’s a market for explosive drones?
"I don't want my drone to explode! What's the point? I paid a lotta money for this drone!"
Explosive drones? Please!
Atomic Hairballs?
Yep that was my first thought!! How long before antifa uses these to hunt down conservative and drop explosives on their houses?! Dangerous..drones need to be regulated like guns!!
Any country capable of making small automobiles is able to make a huge armada of flying bomb drones. Expendable things, they are an engine, a fuel tank, a bomb, and a computer so basic that when it is knocked out the drone will still continue on to its target, if less precisely.
With a 1000lb bomb, the unit price might be kept under $100k.
The most advanced US fighter is the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, that costs about $85m each. For the price of one of those, some country could make 850 such drones, that if launched as a group would be impossible to stop.
So even a “pipsqueak” nation could challenge a major power, and inflict some serious damage to it.
Yeah - a new market for air-powered shotgun launched drone nets.
I’ll take your drone down from 300 yards!
Eat me!
Think micro drone with onboard facial recognition AI and a small explosive become assassination tool.
Judges have said it’s illegal to knock a drone out of the sky even over your own property with a baseball bat. If it is that close and on your private property, it is invading your personal space.
The short of it is anyone can fly one into the engine of a passenger plane but the FAA allows these things to exist because Amazon and others pay well in lobbying.
I love my Mavic Air. Just need to respect air space designation, privacy and noise ordinance. The new Master Airscrew blades make it quieter.
I have a Spark. How much quieter are the new blades?
Didn’t know they had a niche with explosive drones filling it.
One day, I will get around to getting a drone.
and a drone for your clone!
I was thinking more along the lines of the Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie drone, that is hoped to have a mass production cost of only $2m.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kratos_XQ-58_Valkyrie
However, even that is problematic for costing too much, and being of higher quality than is needed. If drones are made to be truly expendable, a single tramp cargo ship modified as a launch platform, could attack an entire coastline.
Because powerful EM would attempt to burn out its electronics at a distance, it needs to use systems too primitive to be affected. The Russians used to do this, using fighters with ordinary steel skin and tube electronics which are much less vulnerable to EM.
Noticeable quieter but the big improvement is the pitch, it’s a rumble sound not a whining sound as before. Consider that there are leaf blowers, lawnmowers and chainsaws outdoors this sound is not that noticeable.
when I read this article I thought about the movie ANGEL HAS FALLEN (Olympus has Fallen 3rd movie)... used drones to try to kill a President...great movie!
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