Police Microdrones Will Make You Wet
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 10 of March , 2008 at 5:25 am
We first wrote about the Microdrone last September… It’s a German-made UAV that can navigate autonomously and provide realtime surveillance video. We mentioned that several civilian organizations (like police departments) had expressed interest in the Microdrone, and it looks like one of them has ponied up for one of the $60,000 aerial bots: the British Transport Police. They’ve been using a Microdrone to help prevent thefts of metal from railways, which is actually kind of a big problem. The cool part, though, is that they’ve mounted some kind of squirt gun on the bot, which fires SmartWater that can be used to track suspected perps. Most squirt guns are fairly short range weapons, and this particular model looks like little more than a tube, so I imagine (and I am totally imaging this right now) that the robot’s controller has perform some sort of high speed close range strafing run on the criminals, who (if they have any sense at all) are probably trying to gtf out of there as fast as they can.
Please, please, somebody take some video of this happening.
Please.
[ BTP Press Release ] VIA [ Telegraph UK ]
Category: Military
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