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UK MOD To Spend 20 Million On Toy Size Spy Drones

Posted by samzenpus on from the small-packages dept.

garymortimer writes "The Ministry of Defense (MOD) is making 20 million pounds available for Nano UAS. This is the second story this week in which military organizations seem to be looking for small multicopters. A market to date that has been ignored by the big defense contractors and a space owned by small start ups. No doubt some of those small start ups will soon become big defense contractors!"

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  1. UK MOD to spend 20 M Pounds on toy sized drones by mjwx · · Score: 2, Funny

    UK MOD to spend 20 million Pounds on toy sized drones which will then be added to every McHappy meal sold in the UK so that they can watch the not quite toy sized British youth.

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  2. UT MOD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    OK - I know I might sound a bit ignorant declaring this, but this story really excited me because I read the title as; "UT MOD spends $ on 20 million mini helicopters."

    I know what you might be thinking - 20 mill mini copters wouldn't be nearly enough for a one night frag fest - but seriously; tiny cameras and laser lights to simulate in the real world ---- it would just be so Epic!

    but then I realized the last time Epic and Unreal crossed paths and then I realized this was just a wasteful military scheme to find another way to cram more tiny cameras into England.

  3. "UK MOD... by msauve · · Score: 3, Funny

    "UK MOD To Spend 20 Million On Toy Size Spy Drones"

    What will the rockers counter with?

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