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Honeywell Micro Air Vehicle police drone finds home in south
Yeehaw! Southern police departments in Houston, Texas and Miami-Dade, Florida are fixin' to take in the Honeywell Micro Air Vehicle (or MAV) for a crash course in law enforcement. The remote-controlled drone video tapes everything it sees and acts as an eye where police can't easily go. It's easy to lug around as a backpack since it only weighs around 15 pounds, it takes five minutes to deploy, can zip around at 50 knots, and hover 10,000 feet in the air. Good gravy! Honeywell says the MAV is incredibly easy to operate. The drones will give police officers a surveillance option as the drone can peer through windows (or fly through open ones) and hover around corners.
Check out Honeywell's site for a video of the whimsical little police bot taking to the skies.
Honeywell, via The Raw Feed
By Binraker at 2:35 PM ON 12/24/07
I wonder how long it will take for one of these to malfunction and fall out of the sky? Have they condidered the possiblity of a mid-air collision with aircraft? Just think of all the UFO reports this thing is going to generate! In fact, mabye it has been MAVs under development that we have been seeing all along....naw it was probably alien space craft from Orion.
By Bill Vincent at 10:20 PM ON 03/26/08
Your "whimsical little" link is bad....FYI
By luggage at 5:38 PM ON 10/20/09
That's actually kind of awesome.
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