Privacy-loving boxing kangaroo biffs drone out of the sky Footage has emerged of a kangaroo boxing a drone out of the sky. Newzulu posted the footage below, in which said marsupial takes a shot at a camera-bearing autonomous craft. To Vulture South's trained eye*, this looks like an Eastern Grey, a mid-sized 'roo that's not noted for being particularly aggressive. Indeed, Kangaroos …
If you want to upset any animal with young just invade its space. Even humans with children they would sometimes like to disown will help you on your way if you interfere. The drone must have been far to close.
One up to the roo, good on you mate.
Never mind: found it by searching on "kangaroo drone" and ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFWUlObSgn0
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Plus one for the roo.
A friend of mine is a successful musician and he had some wally this summer trying to look into his garden with a camera laden drone, what the guy didn't expect was his drone being battered by an RC chopper about 30% bigger than the drone.
Neither survived but it was a handy draw and my mate could afford it!
Drones can be great fun but there are quite a lot of arsehole operators abusing them.
Can someone come up with different terms for the two? Calling them the same thing is akin to calling a news channel's helicopter a stealth bomber...
They are even two completely different classes of aircraft altogether, not to mention the drastic difference in size. One is a single-engine, fixed-wing craft 8-meters in length and wingspan of 15-meters and carries enough armament to level a city block. The other is a multi-engine rotary-wing craft that, at most, is a half-meter square that can barely destroy a sand-castle...
Four hellfire missiles and two 500 lb bombs cannot level a city block. Simply not going to happen unless you're bombing shanties. There are plenty of gun camera videos out there of 500 lb bomb strikes and even more TADS video of US and British Army Apaches shooting Hellfires if you want to see what I mean, don't get me wrong the damage these weapons can inflict is nothing to sneeze at, but its not like Daisy Cutter or Grand Slam grade damage either.
You're talking about a fairly large area here, if you want to level it, you're gonna need a manned attack aircraft like an F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16F Desert Falcon, F-2 (Japan) Viper Zero, Tornado, Su-25 Frogfoot or a bomber like a B-52, Tu-90 or B-1B. You would be able to take down a few buildings with a Reaper's 4 Hellfire/2 JDAM loadout, but nailing an entire block would take a significantly larger payload than what the Reaper* can carry. You might be able to fit enough armament on the RQ-170 to be able to do it, since they're roughly the size of an F-117A (they operate them out of the same hangars at Tonopah Test Range Airport that were used for the F-117 when it was still a black project so it wouldn't surprise me at all if they can handle the same level of armament) but since that's a grey project they're tight lipped about what it can actually do, the RQ-170 may not be able to equip weapons at all.
Either way, calling the Civilian drones simply "drones" and calling the Military and Government vehicles either UAS or UCAS depending on capability would work for what you're after. Technically the civilian ones are UAS as well, but it would be an easy way to differentiate. Also, there are no purpose built civilian UCAS, though you might be able to mount a carbine on one of the bigger civilian drones or strap a bomb to one. I seriously doubt the Government would go for a 2nd Amendment argument in that case though so I don't recommend doing it.
*-I'm assuming you're referencing the Reaper due to the dimensions you gave, though you're slightly off as the Reaper is 11 meters long with a 20 meter wingspan.
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