defense tech is so freaking cool

this is the 70g tethered thermal sensing unmanned covert ops helicopter, the teledyne flir black hornet 4: people know anduril lockheed and some more but there are so many interesting companies: aerovironment, kratos, l3harris, hanwha, general atomics, rheinmetall etc. look them up and check out their catalog for a fun weekend rabbit hole

That thing is $200,000 each.

I love it

It’s cool. Until it’s used to kill innocents. Hope that doesn’t happen with this. Sometimes it’s out of your control when you have certain investors.

Glorified RC helicopter like one I had when I was 10 with spare batteries and an android controller. lol you could make that at home, I wonder how many thousands they charge per unit

80 to 195k usd for this?

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Nice expensive toy

The only industry where your 'edge cases' are actually physical edges. Engineering hits different when the hardware has to survive Mach speeds

All this to get outperformed by a $500 fpv

i know someone with even better versions of these

You can buy those in Walmart for 20 bucks or less

Wasn’t this in transformers like 6 years ago?

“Defence” tech haha 😂 It’s killing tech

props to the editor for making a dinky 500 gram drone look bad ass in a world of F35s and Apaches

I got one of these for Christmas in like 2010

Is not really “defense”; it’s “attack”

Indeed. Although it can also be frightening. There are listed stocks for companies that develop commercial drones, but they're few and far between. At best, some companies have dual-use products. Strangely, these established ones have not performed so well in times of war.

While the Black Hornet and SBS program were helpful in our UAS progression across the services, ultimately glad to see far more attritable systems being fielded, and fielded more widely, to the force.

It is cool until humans are blown up to smithereens.

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Beautiful piece of tech but that price tag makes my bones rot😬

Drones

sonnecting it to a Steam Deck saves time by combining the screen and drone controls into a single device

IS THAT A MINI HELICOPTER OMG

the autonomous systems stuff is insane. watching drones coordinate in real-time without human input feels like sci-fi but it's happening right now

yup

Hardware is cool

I prefer offense tech but point taken

I mean... its also "attack tech" too.

Cool

ok but if there are radio jammers ?

All I can see now is how these are going to be used against Americans.