The Pocket-Sized Black Hornet Drone Is About To Change Army Operations Forever - Black Hornet Drone 2.jpg ...

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http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...ed-black-horne
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After more than four years of experimentation and evaluation, the U.S.
Army is beginning to send out FLIR Systems' tiny Black Hornet nano
drones to operational units, which will fundamentally change how the
service conducts itself on the battlefield. The miniature unmanned
helicopter will give the elements as small as infantry squads a
significant boost in situational awareness and allow them to scout
ahead without having to automatically put soldiers at risk.

On Jan. 9, 2019, the Army revealed that the Soldier Sensors and Lasers
(SSL) division of Rock Island Arsenal’s Joint Manufacturing and
Technology Center (RIA-JMTC) had delivered the first 60 complete Black
Hornet systems to unspecified units. Then, on Jan. 24, 2019, FLIR
Systems announced it had received a contract worth up to $39.6 million
to deliver thousands more of the drones to the service, along with
associated equipment, in the coming years.

“The equipment is getting smaller and the reason it’s getting smaller
is so the Soldier can be equipped with this,” Sunny Koshal, the chief
of the Soldier Support Branch at RIA-JMTC said in an official
interview in January 2019. “This thing, you can really pocket it and
just carry it.”



This will quickly find it's way into domestic
surveillence and local police use. I don't look
forward to that........