Drones Within a Drone Riding a Balloon 108
smitty777 writes "Given the U.S.'s recent drone issues, what is the new recipe for sending a drone over another country of interest? Simple, just take a balloon and attach a Tempest drone to the bottom of it. Now, attach two more CICADA drones to that. The balloon climbs to over 55k feet, then drops the first drone, which can travel another 11 miles or so. It then deploys the CICADA drones. These unpowered gliders slip past radar undetected and start sending back information. There are future plans to mount many (count hundreds) of the CICADA glider drones to the Tempest in the future. The article quotes the flight engineer describing the process as 'straightforward.'"
Nothing new (Score:5, Funny)
It's just drones, all the way down.
Re:Nothing new (Score:5, Funny)
"Yo Dawg"
Yo Dawg.... (Score:5, Funny)
I heard you like drones, so I put drones in your drones so you can spy on stuff while you spy on other stuff.
Awesome! (Score:5, Funny)
I think everybody should have this, and then everybody can watch to make sure that nobody is up to no good.
CICADA? (Score:3, Funny)
I was wondering what had happened to (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nothing new (Score:1, Funny)
I heard you like drones, so I put a drone on your drone you so can drone while droning
Woah. (Score:5, Funny)
the CICADA's logic boards serve as its wings, while inside are gyroscopes, GPS circuits, and a batch of sensors driven by a custom algorithm.
A custom algorithm? Like, they wrote some software? These defence contractors are pretty far out, I would have expected them to just load her up with Microsoft Word and hope for the best..
Re:Uh oh, sounds like a great assassination weapon (Score:4, Funny)
I'd like you to have a seat over here...
How long have you been a terrorist agent?
Who else is in your cell?
Did my wife send you?