Should Quadrotors All Look Like This?

Re:Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? by JoeAltmaier on Thursday November 14, 2013 @04:23PM (#6735680)

Ok you can be deliberately dense if you like. Its pretty apparent to me that a maneuverable drone that can navigate urban environments, hover, identify a target then decide to act is quite different from the blunt-instrument mortars and million-dollar airplane drones we use now.

Science-fiction? You just watched the video, and you dismiss it somehow as fantasy?

For instance, for assassination, intimidation, even spying (look in a 30th-floor window, relay audio and video) a rotored drone has no equal.

It'll be amusing to see the expression on your face the first time a quad-rotor drone peers in your window. "Hey! That can't be! It's impractical in the scenarios I've imagined!"

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Re:Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? by bradleyland on Thursday November 14, 2013 @09:48PM (#6737380)

You just expressed several views with which I have no disagreement. Your original statement was:

> However, that helicopter seems ideal for antipersonnel rapid assault. Add an ounce of C4 and how could you defend against it?

I asked some pretty pointed questions about that hypothetical, and you haven't offered any rebuttal. I've also tried to explore their utility from the viewpoint of a guerrilla soldiers and a nation state.

Yes, I believe that small drones will be utilized. Yes, I believe they will be weaponized. Yes, I believe we really should do something about it! I just don't think the small ones will be weaponized in the way you're suggesting (strap on an ounce of C4 and send them in swarms). That's all.

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