Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone near Tucson

Re:Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticate... by NegativeLatency on Sunday August 22, 2021 @01:36AM (#28263170)

Usually they’re human controlled with an FPV camera setup. Lots of stuff on YouTube to check out related to it if you’re curious. The camera and live video feed to goggles greatly increases what you can do with the drone

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Re:Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticate... by jahnu on Sunday August 22, 2021 @03:30AM (#28263608)

And they use analogue video signals to avoid encoding/decoding latency

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Re:Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticate... by snovv_crash on Sunday August 22, 2021 @03:53AM (#28263677)

Not always, there are starting to be some good digital systems. Analogue is just cheaper and lighter.

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Re:Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticate... by 05 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @04:17AM (#28263757)

“Starting to”? DJI FPV is two years old and naked Vista is negligibly heavier than analog (and it mostly matters for micros, anyway)

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Re:Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticate... by dylan604 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @10:21AM (#28265687)

Yes, something only available for two years qualifies as starting to. In the realm of transmitting video 2 years is definitely early stages.

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Re:Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticate... by snovv_crash on Sunday August 22, 2021 @05:55AM (#28264174)

Naked vista overheats, there's a reason it comes with heatsinks.

There's also been severe availability issues with the DJI gear.

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Re:Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticate... by jahnu on Sunday August 22, 2021 @02:10PM (#28267932)

Oh wow cool! And what sort of latency can they achieve?

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