Microdrone Spy Planes

glinden writes "BBC News is reporting that Israel is now deploying microdrone spy planes. These planes have a wingspan of 13 inches (33 cm), can be carried in a backpack, can be launched by a single soldier, and can even fly through windows. The next step in the drone wars?"

Fly through Windows?

[l810c]

Flying through windows is a very cool feature, but then what?

Snap a couple of pictures, turn on a dime then fly right back out?
Fly through the other open window on the other side of the building?

Fly through window, Then EXPLODE... Now That would be cool.

But

[Anonymous Coward]

How do they fit a midget in there?!

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Sounds like

[slycer9]

Model planes to me. Had one when I was a kid.

Fit in backpack. Was a little over a foot wide. Flew it into a window once...oh wait......

Tomorrow's Scout

[American AC in Paris]

Standard issue:

One (1) pair binoculars
One (1) pair night-vision goggles
One (1) Field emergency medical kit
One (1) M-4 rifle
Eighty (80) rounds 5.56 x 45mm NATO ammuniton
Ten (10) Meals Ready-to-eat
One (1) Mosquito micro-UAV
Ten (10) 30mm propulsion-grade rubber bands

Microsoft Spy Planes

[neko9]

*clears glasses* *looks again at the screen* i think thats enough of slashdot for me today...

3 mile range!

[planckscale]

That's pretty good range for those guys. I could use those to remotely check the surf at the beach from my office!

obligatory /. jokes

[jointm1k]

and can even fly through windows

Yeah, but can it fly through Linux?

The next step in the drone wars?

Begun this drone war has!

can be carried in a backpack

In Soviet Russia, planes carry YOU!

Yeah, I know. my humour sucks.

a simpler time

[BorgCopyeditor]

Skywalker: "You fought in the drone wars?"

hm

[EMH_Mark3]

So what? Lots of spyware can be flown through Windows nowadays.

*rimshot*

Re:Tomorrow's Scout

[Kenja]

Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days concentrated emergency raisons; one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair a nylon stockings. Ten 30mm propulsion-grade rubber bands. Shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

Re:Dig that propeller!

[ch-chuck]

what's going on behind the ten-foot-high stone walls of that rich dude's house

only until he deploys the manually operated ground-to-air rapidly re-targetable kinetic dispersion-projectile defense system (old fashioned shotgun).

Re:Better killers

[Jim_Maryland]

I can see where someone will arm it with a poison dart.

Re:Fly through Windows?

[Anonymous Coward]

A saw one flying through the house a few days ago, but it had on one of those novelty Groucho Marx noses with the glasses, so we disregarded it. I wonder if I should get rid of the pot plants?

GTA Vice City

[CharAznable]

I guess someone at the Israeli army was playing the mission where you fly the rc chopper into the construction site...

Re:Very clever

[eyeye]

What's to stop the palestinians from doing likewise?

Hey if you gave the Palestinians billions of US$ a year in military aid maybe they would.

Then they wouldn't have to "manually" deliver the bombs either.

Re:Fly through Windows?

[avgjoe62]

Actually my favorite Doonesbury strip.

You get the camera view from the nose of a cruise missile as it flies through one of Saddam's bunkers, showing lots of Iraqi soldiers scrambling out of the way as the missile negotiates hallways, doors, stairwells, bathrooms and then flies out a window and explodes in a school down the street.

oooh

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey look! Someone's little plane is buzzing that cleric in the wheelchair. *BOOM*

Hey look! It's another tiny little plane. *BOOM*

Hey look! *BOOM*

(silence except the sounds of bulldozers and Israeli real estate agents)

Not Collective

[Anonymous Coward]

Collective?

I think you mean "kibbutz".

Re:Not Collective

[airrage]

That's good, but too high-brow for this crowd. They'll never get the Borg/Hebrew Communal farming reference. Suggest not posting again.

Re:Microsoft Spy Planes

[Boglin]

Hey, the article did say that it went through Windows.

Flying thru Windows?

[rsd]

I wonder how long before it is hacked to fly thru Linux and Mac os X?

Re:But

[Ilan Volow]

Fitting a midget in a model airplane? That's ridiculous and implausible.

Such a system would actually employ something like a gerbil and an excersise wheel.

Re:Tomorrow's Scout

[Tackhead]

> One (1) pair binoculars
>One (1) pair night-vision goggles
> One (1) Field emergency medical kit
> One (1) M-4 rifle
> Eighty (80) rounds 5.56 x 45mm NATO ammuniton
>Ten (10) Meals Ready-to-eat
>One (1) Mosquito micro-UAV
> Ten (10) 30mm propulsion-grade rubber bands

Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with that!

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