Defense industry specialists circle up in Washington this week for the three - day - long trade fair of theAssociation for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International . In other word , a caboodle of guys with a band of money just aim together for a giant drone show . It ’s really the existence ’s big . And here are its wares .
The show ’s 600 exhibitorsincluded everyonefrom top banana like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin to startups like Bird Aerospace . With everything from self - driving cars to disposable attack plane on exhibit , the scene sound like it was pretty fun , too . “ In the giant hall below , passersby had their body heat invisibly scanned by infrared sensor , were invited to run simulator to send drones screaming over the Hindu Kush , and watched miniature - sized whirlybird quiver and take mental picture in front of domicile - sized windows,”The Los Angeles Times reports . “ barker from Ohio , Florida , North Dakota and other state pitched lagger testing sites . ”
The substantial sensation of the show are all the cockamamie new drones , though . While the show ’s unspoken theme was to ease the populace ’s fears of a poke takeover , exhibitioner made it perfectly clear that there ’s still no shortage of drones on the market : large laggard , small dawdler , red drones , downcast lagger . Here are some of the highlights .
Boeing Unmanned Little Bird
This onebarely even looks like a drone , with its windows and doors and whatnot . But the virtually 10 - year - old model is fully autonomous and can either be flown by remote control or programmed . As you could see in the picture , it ’s also armed to the tooth .
Lockheed Martin Fury 1500
Here’sanother mean - wait thing . The Fury 1500 is designed for a broad range of missions and carry enough fuel for long endurance runnel . open of taking off from a track catapult , it can fly up to 16,000 feet and carry a load of up to 125 pounds .
Tunisia Aero Technologies Industries Nimbus EOS XI
Textron Shadow M2
Okay but severely , a lot of the drones on presentation at the show were build for war . Thisis the Army - best-loved Shadow M2 . An improved locomotive engine bring survival to the late model of this 25 - foot - broad aircraft up to nine hours , and with dual payload bays , it drops turkey two at a time .
Aurora Skate
Thank goodnessanother peaceable drone . The Skate is a gloomy - toll , ultra lightweight lagger tailored more towards law forces than the military . Even though it ’s mostly made of styrofoam , it ’ll still place you back $ 38,000 . It is , however , powered by an radical cool twist that face like a ungainly Wii U controller .
Bird Aerospace Bird’s Eye
This one ’s pretty cool . or else of using a rail rocket launcher or runway or some other slow method acting , you in reality fire theBird ’s Eyeout of a shank . At first , it ’s all fold up up in an egg - like tin — see what they did there?—and then the drone explodes out of it imprint into a big wing . harmonize to the company , it is “ the ultimate tool in uncongenial environments . ” Then again , are n’t all drone ?
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