It has a flight range of up to 12 miles / 20 kilometres.
Jeez …
Looking forward to the DJI Mavic 4 FO.
Would get around the DJI FAA frequency cert bans!!
12 miles of fibre trailing behind it, over trees, buildings etc. So what happens if you fly out over trees etc , 7 miles out then return home with the fibre entwined in branches/ twigs etc ?
You got a warm house for winter
These drones don’t come home
Ahh ( never thought of that) Works out a pretty expensive way of obtaining intel
A cheap way of fucking the Ruskies!
It might have an auto-cut when it gets to the end? …or before RTH?
Quiet easy to do. The fibre is, quite obviously, VERY thin!
RTH doesn’t need connection … as most of us know or have tested.
maybe there are no trees in Germany?.. first thought I had… how do you get your expensive zoom and thermal camera drone back after a mission… followed by… do you just cut the cord of your enemies drone and they are done?
one way drone it’s maybe a good idea but a recon drone … not sure
one way drone you need to know the target direction to some degree before flight… as X miles zigzagging over bushes and occupied trenches cannot be a good idea…
Even if there were - the Ukrainian pilot has got lost.
I reckon a big problem out in Ukraine might be GPS spoofing though, if the drone has RTH and suddenly finds the home point is 200k South of where it is
Perhaps one will “spoof” its way to Southampton?
Or my house ( as long as it hasn’t got 5lb of munitions attached )
Mine first! it was my idea!
My house survived a shit load of bombs in WWII (adjacent to the Spitfire’s birth-place) … I’m sure it will be OK.
What happens if get wrapped around the trees ? Or chokes the wildlife from all this fibre ?
The bombs will cause more damage
This shows lack of thinking and desperation .
You think being bombed, mortared and shot at by the Russians isn’t sufficient reason to justify any solution relevant?
I see what its for but just imagining what could go wrong on the consumer side. There I am filming a ship and next thing im dragged in and water skiing behind it holding onto my controler because the cable is wrapped around the ships propeller.