Microdrone Spy Planes

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Posted by michael on Friday March 26, 2004 @06:50AM from the i-spy-with-my-little-eye dept.

glinden writes "BBC News is reporting that Israel is now deploying microdrone spy planes. These planes have a wingspan of 13 inches (33 cm), can be carried in a backpack, can be launched by a single soldier, and can even fly through windows. The next step in the drone wars?"

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Fly through Windows? by l810c · 2004-03-26 06:50 · Score: 4, Funny

Flying through windows is a very cool feature, but then what?
Snap a couple of pictures, turn on a dime then fly right back out?
Fly through the other open window on the other side of the building?
Fly through window, Then EXPLODE... Now That would be cool.
1. Re:Fly through Windows? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-26 07:02 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  A saw one flying through the house a few days ago, but it had on one of those novelty Groucho Marx noses with the glasses, so we disregarded it. I wonder if I should get rid of the pot plants?
2. Re:Fly through Windows? by avgjoe62 · 2004-03-26 07:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Actually my favorite Doonesbury strip.
  You get the camera view from the nose of a cruise missile as it flies through one of Saddam's bunkers, showing lots of Iraqi soldiers scrambling out of the way as the missile negotiates hallways, doors, stairwells, bathrooms and then flies out a window and explodes in a school down the street.
  
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But by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-26 06:51 · Score: 2, Funny

How do they fit a midget in there?!
1. Re:But by Ilan+Volow · 2004-03-26 08:08 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Fitting a midget in a model airplane? That's ridiculous and implausible.
  
  Such a system would actually employ something like a gerbil and an excersise wheel.
  
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Still no jetpacks? by bangular · 2004-03-26 06:52 · Score: 5, Funny

They can make this but they still can't make me a decent jetpack? I'm begining to think we will never get our flying shark we were promised
Sounds like by slycer9 · 2004-03-26 06:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Model planes to me. Had one when I was a kid.

Fit in backpack. Was a little over a foot wide. Flew it into a window once...oh wait......

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Tomorrow's Scout by American+AC+in+Paris · 2004-03-26 06:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Standard issue:
One (1) pair binoculars
One (1) pair night-vision goggles
One (1) Field emergency medical kit
One (1) M-4 rifle
Eighty (80) rounds 5.56 x 45mm NATO ammuniton
Ten (10) Meals Ready-to-eat
One (1) Mosquito micro-UAV
Ten (10) 30mm propulsion-grade rubber bands

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1. Re:Tomorrow's Scout by Kenja · 2004-03-26 07:00 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days concentrated emergency raisons; one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair a nylon stockings. Ten 30mm propulsion-grade rubber bands. Shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
  
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2. Re:Tomorrow's Scout by Tackhead · 2004-03-26 08:15 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  > One (1) pair binoculars
  >One (1) pair night-vision goggles
  > One (1) Field emergency medical kit
  > One (1) M-4 rifle
  > Eighty (80) rounds 5.56 x 45mm NATO ammuniton
  >Ten (10) Meals Ready-to-eat
  >One (1) Mosquito micro-UAV
  > Ten (10) 30mm propulsion-grade rubber bands
  Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with that!
Microsoft Spy Planes by neko9 · 2004-03-26 06:55 · Score: 5, Funny

*clears glasses* *looks again at the screen* i think thats enough of slashdot for me today...
1. Re:Microsoft Spy Planes by Boglin · 2004-03-26 07:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Hey, the article did say that it went through Windows.
3 mile range! by planckscale · 2004-03-26 06:55 · Score: 2, Funny

That's pretty good range for those guys. I could use those to remotely check the surf at the beach from my office!

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obligatory /. jokes by jointm1k · 2004-03-26 06:55 · Score: 2, Funny

and can even fly through windows

Yeah, but can it fly through Linux?

The next step in the drone wars?

Begun this drone war has!

can be carried in a backpack

In Soviet Russia, planes carry YOU!

Yeah, I know. my humour sucks.

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a simpler time by BorgCopyeditor · 2004-03-26 06:55 · Score: 2, Funny

Skywalker: "You fought in the drone wars?"

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hm by EMH_Mark3 · 2004-03-26 06:56 · Score: 5, Funny

So what? Lots of spyware can be flown through Windows nowadays.

*rimshot*

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Re:Dig that propeller! by ch-chuck · 2004-03-26 07:02 · Score: 4, Funny

what's going on behind the ten-foot-high stone walls of that rich dude's house

only until he deploys the manually operated ground-to-air rapidly re-targetable kinetic dispersion-projectile defense system (old fashioned shotgun).

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Re:Better killers by Jim_Maryland · 2004-03-26 07:02 · Score: 2, Funny

I can see where someone will arm it with a poison dart.
GTA Vice City by CharAznable · 2004-03-26 07:04 · Score: 5, Funny

I guess someone at the Israeli army was playing the mission where you fly the rc chopper into the construction site...

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Re:Very clever by eyeye · 2004-03-26 07:04 · Score: 3, Funny

What's to stop the palestinians from doing likewise?

Hey if you gave the Palestinians billions of US$ a year in military aid maybe they would.

Then they wouldn't have to "manually" deliver the bombs either.

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oooh by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-26 07:06 · Score: 1, Funny

Hey look! Someone's little plane is buzzing that cleric in the wheelchair. *BOOM*

Hey look! It's another tiny little plane. *BOOM*

Hey look! *BOOM*

(silence except the sounds of bulldozers and Israeli real estate agents)
Not Collective by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-26 07:09 · Score: 4, Funny

Collective?

I think you mean "kibbutz".
1. Re:Not Collective by airrage · 2004-03-26 07:11 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That's good, but too high-brow for this crowd. They'll never get the Borg/Hebrew Communal farming reference. Suggest not posting again.
  
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Flying thru Windows? by rsd · 2004-03-26 07:43 · Score: 2, Funny

I wonder how long before it is hacked to fly thru Linux and Mac os X?
What about married people? by fmaxwell · 2004-03-26 08:18 · Score: 4, Funny

These planes have a wingspan of 13 inches (33 cm)...can be launched by a single soldier

It must suck to be married. You can't even play with toy airplanes anymore.