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Miami Cops to Use Spy Drones for SWAT Team Ops
Posted by Charlie White at 4:30 AM on November 29, 2007
Drones like the one you see in the video above might soon be used by the Miami Police Department, serving as an unmanned eye-in-the-sky that can go places where it's too dangerous for human beings to tread. Expected to be rolled out next year first in SWAT team operations, the 14 lb. vehicle is unarmed but can fly just about anywhere, and even goes up to altitudes of 10,500 feet. These particular craft were first tested by Honeywell early last year, and now the FAA has given Miami and Houston permission to use them in their busy airspaces. Cops say they're not going to be using these drones to spy on people. Yet. [WPLG, via CrunchGear]
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kevinXnaked
Posted 4:26 PM 28/11/07
Wait for even the smallest gust of wind and that things going down.
kevinXnaked
pizzlepaps
Posted 3:43 PM 28/11/07
@jabber:
slingshot sounds more cost effective
pizzlepaps
dead_red_eyes
Posted 3:38 PM 28/11/07
Everyday we get a little closer to Half Life 2.
dead_red_eyes
rainfever
Posted 2:57 PM 28/11/07
@av8thor: Just what i was thinking, I'll bet the RPM's on this make a weedwacker sound like a whisper.
Regardless, very cool tech, now gimme a 6th gen one which flies silently. ;)
rainfever
Mfumbi
Posted 2:23 PM 28/11/07
Made is approximately 40% the vid before the soundtrack gave me an full gran-mals epileptic seizure. :(
Someone let me know how it ends...
thththhhthhhthhhthhhtannnnnnnnxxxxxxxx.......xxx..xxxxx
Mfumbi
jabber
Posted 2:15 PM 28/11/07
@ANoel: This is why Stingers were made.
jabber
Slats
Posted 2:12 PM 28/11/07
These are going to be really irritating when they become sentient and attempt to clean up the "infestation".
Slats
mikeysnipa
Posted 2:09 PM 28/11/07
cool toy... seems like a dumb swat tool.. most people already said the reasons... lol
mikeysnipa
AndersonBMX
Posted 1:45 PM 28/11/07
@TheTick:
lol
not yet a taser flying saucer
AndersonBMX
GizFanAlpha
Posted 1:41 PM 28/11/07
How much for a personal version of that thing, because I really want one of those.
GizFanAlpha
av8thor
Posted 1:31 PM 28/11/07
I'm betting it makes a racket like the Devil's Dyson. It had better be able to fly at 10K feet, or it will never sneak up on anybody.
av8thor
MacAddict21
Posted 1:30 PM 28/11/07
awesome but isn't it pointless if people know what it is? if im a dealer standing on the corner, im gonna stop dealing if i see this thing hovering in the air above me. better to equip it with infrared cameras and use it for night surveillance
MacAddict21
shuluke
Posted 1:10 PM 28/11/07
Where do I go to get one for myself.. This would help out recording the longboarding sessions where 30+mph and videotaping is too much. I can just have this robot tag along recording the run..
shuluke
Munch
Posted 1:09 PM 28/11/07
I'm guessing that the inventor of that droid grew up close to a nude beach
Munch
Geist420
Posted 1:04 PM 28/11/07
They need to arm these things and drop them by the truckload in gang-heavy/owned neighborhoods and blow the bastards away. =)
Geist420
Jason
Posted 1:03 PM 28/11/07
I'm still waiting until what the public thinks of UAVs when they start to fall out of the sky...
Jason
TheTick
Posted 12:57 PM 28/11/07
Well, at least it's not the TASER flying saucer.
TheTick
Hickeroar
Posted 12:54 PM 28/11/07
What does this thing use for propulsion/fuel? Is it electric or gas powered? How long can it stay in the air? If it can get to 10k feet, how long can it actually stay there? Can it actually stay up long enough to get to 10k feet or are they just "saying" it "could" do that if it had the juice.....?
Hickeroar
ANoel
Posted 12:45 PM 28/11/07
This is why slingshots were made.
ANoel
Dirk
Posted 12:38 PM 28/11/07
Haha, thet's the first thing I thought,too. Chewbacca's going to shoot it and give away the location of the Hoth base.
Dirk
strider_mt2k
Posted 12:36 PM 28/11/07
Probe Droid.
strider_mt2k
Rotgut
Posted 4:51 PM 28/11/07
I thought HALF-LIFE 2 was just a videogame.
Rotgut
Palestina
Posted 6:08 PM 28/11/07
Shooting this would be fun!
Palestina
Rattierevolution
Posted 5:45 PM 28/11/07
@Rotgut:
"THEY'RE FLOODING THE SEWERS WITH MANHACKS!!!!"
Haha, my thoughts exactly
Rattierevolution
AznSmith
Posted 7:37 PM 28/11/07
someone had to say it
AznSmith
AznSmith
Posted 7:37 PM 28/11/07
UAV standing by! Our UAV is online!
AznSmith
Empire
Posted 7:33 PM 28/11/07
"Cops say they're not going to be using these drones to spy on people. Yet."
Cops say a lot of things.
Empire
banmojo
Posted 7:28 PM 28/11/07
using these to monitor high crime areas is not a bad idea (until, as many pointed out, they become sentient)
banmojo
qhead7
Posted 7:23 PM 28/11/07
i live in miami. and i dont really see the point. backyards in miami are usually small unless you live in a mansion.
qhead7
devilonsteroids
Posted 2:11 AM 29/11/07
Honeywell? they make crappy heaters at wal mart....But then again so does GE. GE makes Powerplants and jet engines too.
devilonsteroids
sakko
Posted 8:40 AM 29/11/07
One thing not mentioned in the video is this thing is louder than shit.
Okay shit isn't loud but you get the point.
sakko
Gev
Posted 10:06 AM 29/11/07
@Rattierevolution: God, we need lives. The first thing I thought of was, "Hey, it's like those scanner things in HL2."
Gev
advidg
Posted 9:57 AM 29/11/07
Battlefield 2142
Future 'SD-8 Accipiter' ?
[www.youtube.com]
(the first thing you see)
advidg