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Top 5 Interesting Drone Facts


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is it a bird is it a plane
nope it’s a UAV and your next question
should be what the hell does it do
welcome to watchmojo.com and were
counting down the top five facts about
drones in time there’ll be a whole
family of Amazon drones different
designs for different environments
drones have become a major topic of
debate in our modern society and lover
Murr Hatem they are set to become an
increasingly common sight both in
military operations and in the sky above
your very own backyard
number five drones are growing faster as
consumer good then as a military
application
maybe you had a remote control car
growing up or perhaps even an RC plane
if your parents were really into buying
new windows but chances are your kids
are going to be playing with drones the
estimated value of the drone industry in
2015 was 3.3 billion dollars but that
figure is projected to balloon to 90
billion by 2025 like most technologies
the becoming increasingly cost effective
to manufacture and more user-friendly
according to the company 3d robotics
more customers are building and flying
their DIY drones than the amount
currently operated by the US military
but drones aren’t limited to hobbyists
they’re becoming a versatile tool across
a variety of domains farmers use them to
serve a large crop fields they can be
used in search and rescue missions and
they’ve even become a trendy must-have
for wedding photographers number four
police are now using drones instead of
being equipped with missiles though this
little guy carries a camera that at most
weighs 35 ounces speaking of application
for drones back home how do you feel
knowing that your local police force
could be watching you from above it
might sound like George Orwell’s 1984
come true but let’s stay optimistic and
hope they don’t go all Big Brother on us
there are many ways in which drones
could prove to be useful and effective
tools in the hands of a responsible
force including better documentation of
crime scenes and efficient aerial
searches for either missing persons or
violent criminals at large unfortunately
in the United States the exact limits of
what police can or cannot do with drones
have thus far only been established on a
state level with no federal legislation
in place number three drone delivery the
pizza boy’s postal workers or even
waiters of the future delivery from
tired of waiting on your pizza delivery
guy enter the drew drone which will be
used to deliver pizza in New Zealand
from a single dominos location coupled
with a self-driving four wheel drew
Pizza robot which drives itself down the
sidewalk from the restaurant to your
home pizza delivery boys are starting to
look like an endangered species however
this isn’t the only attempt at employing
drones to replace service staff but
after a drone crashed into one casa
murrs face at a TGI Fridays in New York
City some people are understandably wary
perhaps the most promising application
of drone based delivery is the Amazon
drone delivery system which hopes to
deliver parcels in 30 minutes or less in
urban areas number two drones have taken
a staggering number of lives drone
strikes will be as much a characteristic
of the Obama presidency as a bomber care
or receiving racist email for words from
distant relatives drones can be a lot of
fun and maybe even laden with pizza but
the driving force behind them is
military applications Predator drones
were first deployed in Afghanistan to
locate and perform recon on Osama bin
Laden and they found him since then the
total number of deaths by drone strike
have been highly contested the White
House revealed their tally of deaths and
it’s well below the estimates made by
NGOs the government cites anywhere
between 64 and 116 civilian deaths
spread across 473 strikes which killed
over 2,000 terrorists combatants but the
Bureau of Investigative Journalism
estimates that the civilian death toll
is realistically between 424 and 966 and
that’s just in Pakistan number one
drones have a surprisingly long history
a history of drones is much longer and
richer than their recent popularity
might have you believe in fact the
earliest examples of rudimentary armed
drones can be traced back to 18-49 when
Austrian forces attached explosives to
unmanned hot-air balloons in hopes of
flying them over Italy and triggering
the bombs via long copper wires the plan
failed but the concept was established
the Kettering bug a flying torpedo
was developed for World War 1 but never
deployed the term drone is said to have
been coined in 1935 when unmanned target
planes were being developed by 1964
early versions of modern drones were
being used in Vietnam and the rest is
history
so what application of drones do you
find most concerning or the most
exciting for more self-driving top tens
and unmanned top fives be sure to
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