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US Army awards pocket-sized drones $20.6 million contract

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Tags: usa, military, flir systems, black hornet 3, drones.nano, engineering, author.derya ozdemir, source.interestingengineering, short read
https://interestingengineering.com/us-army-awards-pocket-sized-drones-206-million-contract

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Authors
Derya Ozdemir, Loukia Papadopoulos, Fabienne Lang, Brad Bergan, Marcia Wendorf
Published
Jun 23 2020
Word count
373 words

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    ali
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    33 grams and 25 minutes battery life sounds like an amazing feat of engineering. I’m sad about the use case but I love the technology

    33 grams and 25 minutes battery life sounds like an amazing feat of engineering. I’m sad about the use case but I love the technology

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    1. sqew
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      It's fascinating to me that they selected a single-rotor helicopter-like design as opposed to a quadcopter or some other more common drone design. I assume that it was lighter or had more capacity...

      It's fascinating to me that they selected a single-rotor helicopter-like design as opposed to a quadcopter or some other more common drone design. I assume that it was lighter or had more capacity to be quiet. Wish we could know more.

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