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 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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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 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.
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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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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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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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.