A new drone shaped like a bird. Chinese developers have shown a new drone made in the shape of a bird.
Such an invention can turn the drone industry upside down.
The drone is able to fly with the help of wing flapping like a real bird and looks the same.
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I KNEW BIRDS WERENT REAL
So many ballistic trajectories, so much falling lead.
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“Birds aren’t real” conspiracy theory coming true.
If it flies it spies.
Maybe that was the misunderstanding. Is was never a conspiracy. It was a prophecy.
aren’t there already a pigeon, hawk, bat, and bug wing drone?
These are more realistic. I hear they can form a flock and shit all over you. Scary stuff!
yes
r/BirdsArentReal must be going nuts over this.
I bet there going “Guys, real bird is spotted in china, where we wrong?”
But i dislike Reddit to much to go check
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I like how the article starts with China making bird drones and ends with American gun drones. The most American drone.
And the chainsaw drone, the bomb drone, the control drone…
Ornithopters have been around for over 100 years. It’s not really breaking now ground.
I had a toy like this over 40 years ago. Of course I just wound it up and let it go but it flew well.
Birds? You mean drones? Birds aren’t real.
Which is why they are slowly admitting they were drones with stuff like this. “Oh look, we made a drone in the shape of a bird!”. Even though it was a drone all along /s
This is not new at all. Probably 5+ years old
Why not just use birds? Birds fly for free.
They poop on heads though, which is negative points for me.
There have been non-drone flapping bird toys for decades(?) Maybe longer? At least since 1969.
ornithopters arent exactly new
It also seems to have fewer purposes. If you are trying to get footage or even just a picture it seems like a normal drone is much easier. Takeoff, landing, hovering seem to be weighted to the quad copter design.
These would have fantastical scouting capabilities. Pretty alright at being undercover as long as the target isnt looking for them. You could easily storm a few places unexpectedly with a little bit of explosives and these. This is that shit the Wizard and the evil chick were drooling over in Wicked.
If you’re putting explosives on these things I don’t think it matters. You wouldn’t hear the whirl of the rotors until after it got within striking range.
I would assume the visuals are key here. You can’t normally hear birds flapping anyway. These just look like birds until its too late.
It’s the perfect weapon to spy on other countries for them because any bird would stick out like a sour thumb in China so it can’t be used against them. Meanwhile in other countries it wouldn’t even be looked at.
Is this a Mao Sparrow reference or did all their air pollution kill the birds?
This might be much more efficient
Plane vs helicopter I imagine. Plane should have a longer range, helicopter is better to get footage.
The one thing it has going for it is covert surveillance.
Bird circles 80 times with 15 second gaps of the camera pointed in the wrong direction is all I can imagine. You’d have to swoop the bird directly at the target you wanted to capture the image of unless you are controlling the bird and using a floating camera that you are pointing at the target and rotating separately. Which means the odds of you crashing are going up drastically.
Just use a 360 degree camera with stabilization
Imagine a camera on the bottom of the body instead of where the eyes would be. Now have it circle like an eagle, flapping as needed. Telephoto lens.
Actually the whole point of birds not having their eyes on the body is that they can essentially stabilize their head with their neck so it is not affected by the flapping motion so much.
wingspan of 1.96 meters.
Not exactly bird like like these other ones though…
Largest living bird species wingspan is 3.6m.
How many species have a larger wing span than that? It’s not that many…
That would look out of place in the majority of the world. Condors aren’t exactly flying over every city mate…
It’s so hard to tell how far a bird is by eye that I and, I think, most people would be easily fooled. Especially in clear weather.
Smaller than bald eagles, I see them all the time
You’re clearly being watched!
How about this one?
Is there like a law of the Internet that says even the dumbest conspiracy theories will eventually come true? If so I want to know the name given how it keeps happening.
@Grandwolf319 @Interesting_news Where are the lizard people
you should tell these guys to add it to their list https://archive.org/stream/RulesOfTheInternet/RulesOfTheInternet..txt
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It’s called Neuralink.
I will literally starve to death living in the wilderness before someone puts a Neuralink in me. If you forced me to choose, I would choose starvation.
This is ages old
