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▲ Drones built to look like birds evaded detection at Air Force tech exercise(taskandpurpose.com)
19 points by bushwart 2 hours ago | 9 comments
▲odyssey7 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I remember once watching a bird in the distance through my binoculars and then how it inexplicably vanished into the distance, seemingly at great speed, not really flapping its wings. Seemed interesting, but I don’t go birdwatching enough to rule out my inexperience in looking at them properly. Maybe the binoculars had given me mild vertigo.

▲tamimio 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It won’t fly further than a headline, never a practical one. The biggest issue remains (after solving the other two) in drones now is endurance, and unless a breakthrough battery technology changes that, all these cool concepts will never materialize.

▲whycombinetor 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Power line perch recharging is the solution.

▲samrus 18 minutes ago | parent [-]

Bread crumb refueling

▲greggsy 16 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Did you fly further than the headline?

> The O1 drone weighs 1 pound and can fly up to 10 kilometers, which is a little more than 6 miles, for over an hour, according to a company fact sheet.

▲app134 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm lucky enough to be employed in the robotics space.

It's not that all birds aren't real.

But some birds definitely aren't real.

▲thisisnotauser a few seconds ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If only there were other spectra that trivially distinguish birds from drones

▲globular-toast 4 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Oh god, they're going to kill all the birds, aren't they? I wish I was joking.

▲aenis 12 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Claude, this time do shoot at birds, make no mistakes.