Anyone flown this? How does it compare to a Mini 2?
It’s only available to government organisations at the moment. I suspect that if it’s ever released to the public it’s going to be wildly more expensive than the mini
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Sure but I was wondering if anyone had flown one through work.
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I suspect as it is heavily pointed at military use anyone who reports on it might be looking at a court martial 
Personally I’d love to see it released, I’m stuck with the DJI dominance myself and other manufacturers who could challenge them would be most welcome.
Nano 1A UAV Quadcopter Bug is available to Government and some Commercial customers at the moment.
Price £4500.
Replacement for the Black Hornet Mk3 nano.
Cost around £45000 each.
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Ouch! But not entirely unexpected
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Yikes!
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I would certainly like one Peter, could be very useful for work if it is 4k.
-Mike.
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Bit out of my league price wise 
I don’t think they are geared up for mass production and will concentrate on a specialist market with big budgets
I reckon Eachine could clone these for around £40 a pop 
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I’d be very interested to see what lies beneath the 3d printed canopy.
Their Magpie looks suspiciously like the X-Cam Kongkopter FQ700 and their Mini-1C looks a lot like the Xcam FH800.
I’m somewhat reminded of this, or I’m just being a tad over critical.
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if you were going to use 3d printing for the cover, why would you produce something so boxy? That must be cheaper to make by other methods.
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I wish these toys were around when I served😞
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I don’t know what’s inside this drone, but it’s probably because they had to pay for developing and building a custom small drone.
DJI or Autel might build better drones at a far lower price, but the UK military probably does not want to rely on a Chinese company for their drones.
As well as being overpriced, it wouldn’t appear they have much resistance to simple jamming attacks.
It seems like they’re paying ludicrous money for these.
Jamming attacks, they should be autonomous and able to do surveillance of an area by pre-programmed routes or loitering. Most transmission will be from the drone to the operator in that case. If you intend to do active control, you should be ready to move since your position is exposed.The more autonomous the drone is, the less transmission you’ll need. If you are looking for a specific type of vehicle for example, it should be easy to have the drone do it autonomously and not even transmit anything itself until it finds it (and possibly never - it could keep the footage until it returns to the operator). A drone used to find enemy armour within a map area with zero communication either to or from the drone would be extremely difficult to hide from. This is a capability that has existed for years with large drones or satellites but they have been expensive, limited use in bad weather, and most importantly not available to individual soldiers on the ground without needing to coordinate that support.
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I don’t see how you can see that? The jamming stuff would be under the hood. Also how much is one? Or is it just a random assumption?