Chinese mosquito sized drone

[Infinite Chaos]

Can't see too much use in bad weather but for industrial spying, inter-Governmental spying and so on - if these things actually work, there will need to be new countermeasures.

While one of these might be useful in daytime..

Sending tiny drones around at night or in dimly lit spaces will make it so much harder to counter these things.

Mosquito-sized drone is designed for Chinese spy missions — military robotics lab reveals incredibly tiny bionic flying robots

Science fiction becomes reality.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Cameron]

I’m thinking of that assassination scene in Dune.

 

[Allan]

Can't see too much use in bad weather but for industrial spying, inter-Governmental spying and so on - if these things actually work, there will need to be new countermeasures.

While one of these might be useful in daytime..

Sending tiny drones around at night or in dimly lit spaces will make it so much harder to counter these things.

Mosquito-sized drone is designed for Chinese spy missions — military robotics lab reveals incredibly tiny bionic flying robots

Science fiction becomes reality.

www.tomshardware.com

I remember a movie where an intellence agency used a small spy drone that looked like a house fly. That technology will soon be real.

 

[Mycroft]

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "I'd like to be a fly on the wall."

 

[MaryP]

Can't see too much use in bad weather but for industrial spying, inter-Governmental spying and so on - if these things actually work, there will need to be new countermeasures.

While one of these might be useful in daytime..

Sending tiny drones around at night or in dimly lit spaces will make it so much harder to counter these things.

Mosquito-sized drone is designed for Chinese spy missions — military robotics lab reveals incredibly tiny bionic flying robots

Science fiction becomes reality.

www.tomshardware.com

Cool. Let's steal the tech.

 

[Allan]

Cool. Let's steal the tech.

I bet the US already has something similar, maybe even better.

 

[bythoughts]

We feel poverty and powerlessness. There is an unbridgeable gulf between the spy agencies that have access to every gee-whiz technology on Earth, and the ordinary person who doesn't have the equipment, and can't imagine being able to afford equipment, that could do something like detect and classify all electromagnetic signal sources in the area. This is the same gap that has often yawned between slave and master, with comparable results; but even that fails to capture the degradation that occurs when people are so far gone that they don't even have to be forced to cheer for policies that give more money and tax exemptions for the richest, or kick down and destroy the hopes of the poorest.

 

[Helix]

 

[MaryP]

I bet the US already has something similar, maybe even better.

Really? Hey, remember the phone in Max's shoe?

 

[Peacenik]

Can't see too much use in bad weather but for industrial spying, inter-Governmental spying and so on - if these things actually work, there will need to be new countermeasures.

While one of these might be useful in daytime..

Sending tiny drones around at night or in dimly lit spaces will make it so much harder to counter these things.

Mosquito-sized drone is designed for Chinese spy missions — military robotics lab reveals incredibly tiny bionic flying robots

Science fiction becomes reality.

www.tomshardware.com

They will be dropped out of balloons...

 

[Girlpower]

I bet the US already has something similar, maybe even better.

We do.

The problem is though that we haven't weaponized it as far as I know.

I believe China is.

Their investment in drone technology has tripled in the last decade.

 

[Infinite Chaos]

I bet the US already has something similar, maybe even better.

Harvard developed a robobee 10 years ago - capable of underwater operation as well as flying. Militarily, the Norwegian Black Hornet is used by the US, UK and other militaries.

 

[Allan]

Harvard developed a robobee 10 years ago - capable of underwater operation as well as flying. Militarily, the Norwegian Black Hornet is used by the US, UK and other militaries.

It's cute.



An article I just saw says that Ukraine is using them.

 

[jmotivator]

It's cute.



An article I just saw says that Ukraine is using them.

That helicopter looks functional. The mosquito drone displayed in the article? Not so much.