Re: Area-I and it's new parent co., Anduril
Posted by
Chris in Tampa on 5/31/2021, 10:15 pm
I wish we had even better drones for hurricanes, like ones that could takeoff for a hurricane and then come back and land. Not just something to fly around it like the Global Hawk used to do sometimes, but in it, like the expendable drones. I guess that would be way too expensive though. I don't just mean at flight level, but like how these expendable drones that can fly really low near the ocean's surface. I don't know how expensive these expendable drones are, but I guess something reusable would be considerably more expensive. From doing a quick search, I see some estimates of the Coyote expendable drones they briefly used being around $15,000 to $20,000 each perhaps. Not sure about these ones.
I just see the drones that some individuals, organizations or government, likely government, that are flying around that our military and civilian pilots encounter sometimes. They aren't aliens, they are advanced pieces of technology that we should have too. I suppose we might have something like them for military purposes that they don't want on the civilian market.
Trying to build something that could survive 150 to 200mph wind gusts though I would assume would be very challenging. Not simply for a one time use, but continued use. It would have to power itself fully so it would have to be of some size. I guess maybe expendable is the only way to go. If you were to outfit a large aircraft to fly remotely, and try to fly it low, that could be a ten million dollar loss, or tens of millions. So maybe expendable is the way to go. I just wish it was something of low cost so we could fly these in every hurricane around land especially, doing so each mission. And fly them easily, without having to circle around it in the aircraft it was dropped from. I haven't looked to see if these are operated remotely by a satellite connection or if it transmits to the plane. If by satellite, the NOAA aircraft could continue flying wherever while someone on land flies the drone.
As for scary drone news:
https://gizmodo.com/flying-killer-robot-hunted-down-a-human-target-without-1847001471
"A "lethal" weaponized drone "hunted down" and "remotely engaged" human targets without its handlers' say-so during a conflict in Libya last year, according to a United Nations report first covered by New Scientist this week. Whether there were any casualties remains unclear, but if confirmed, it would likely be the first recorded death carried out by an autonomous killer robot.
In March 2020, a Kargu-2 attack quadcopter, which the agency called a "lethal autonomous weapon system," targeted retreating soldiers and convoys led by Libyan National Army's Khalifa Haftar during a civil conflict with Libyan government forces.
"The lethal autonomous weapons systems were programmed to attack targets without requiring data connectivity between the operator and the munition: in effect, a true 'fire, forget and find' capability," the UN Security Council's Panel of Experts on Libya wrote in the report." |
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