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Re:US Army will buy enhanced variant of the Skydio X2 drone by matthew-wegner on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:44AM (#38684000)
Yeah, a faster top speed would be nice for sure! I mostly do mountain unicycling, which stays in the sweet spot easily (unicycling is pretty slow compared to i.e. biking).

The desert isn't a very challenging environment for obstacles, even still, this front-follow would be very hard to achieve with piloted FPV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koWzoCUUIbE

Alas, there will never be a consumer Skydio 3, and the Skydio 2 is now $5k via their enterprise pricing :(

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Re:US Army will buy enhanced variant of the Skydio X2 drone by nathancahill on Monday December 18, 2023 @03:07PM (#38687489)
Nice video. Looks like Arizona. Used to live there for mountain biking.

Crazy it's up to $5k. I think I picked up mine for $1500? Something like that.

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Re:US Army will buy enhanced variant of the Skydio X2 drone by matthew-wegner on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @09:22AM (#38695813)
They exited the consumer market completely. They're still selling Skydio 2 hardware, but now via an enterprise package/pricing. It's a huge bummer: https://www.skydio.com/blog/skydio-to-sunset-consumer-drone-...

And yeah, that's at South Mountain in Phoenix!

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