A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator

Posted by timothy on Friday May 6, 2011 @11:43AM from the you'd-still-need-a-high-allowance dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this envy-inspiring bit from Gizmodo on the Aeryon Scout Quadrotor: "The drone, packing a camera that can ID a human from almost two miles away (using a standard digital cam or thermal vision), can be hand-assembled. Once in the sky, it gyro-orients itself to track whatever it is you're tracking, can hit speeds of over 30 MPH, and is all controllable with a touch remote. Tap a target, and watch the drone zoom over. It's not going to rain down any Hellfire missiles, but hey, it only weighs a kilogram."

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Cheaper than a predator by spauldo · 2011-05-06 11:51 · Score: 4, Insightful

OK, so it's cheaper than a predator. It's also completely different than a predator.
It's like saying a golf cart is cheaper than a Freightliner. It's true, but they don't serve the same purpose.

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It only has to carry a laser to paint a target by Marrow · 2011-05-06 12:54 · Score: 5, Insightful

The real damage would come from much further away.