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printer

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Neither do I, but I would like to see sensible regulations and air parks where licensed pilots are allowed more freedom. Right now, the industry is being stifled by regulations that are unjust and unnecessary. Outside of their use in war, the hobby community has caused little injury and no deaths that I'm aware of, golf has probably killed more people. However, since the war in Ukraine everybody can apprehend the potential threat they pose, if used with malicious intent. We can see how an RC plane can be easily turned into a GPS guided cruise missile or and FPV drone used as suicide drone. The problem is anybody can order the components like brushless motors, ESCs, flight control computers and GPS receivers online for very little cost. These components are mostly produced in China though and we have little domestic production and that is a concern.

A cell phone can be weaponized too and used to set off a bomb by receiving a call or by using its GPS function to detonate a truck bomb at a specific location using a dupe for a driver. It is all technology that can be used for either good or bad purposes.
Sort of like a dog park. Maybe combine the both and have teams of a pilot and a dog competing with each other.

The thing that makes drones dangerous is the explosives. Not a great selection in your grocery store, would like to be able to buy some accelerant to go with that bag of sugar.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Sort of like a dog park. Maybe combine the both and have teams of a pilot and a dog competing with each other.

The thing that makes drones dangerous is the explosives. Not a great selection in your grocery store, would like to be able to buy some accelerant to go with that bag of sugar.
I was thinking a more rural setting with few people and make getting a license harder, even have a place for long-range flying above 400' AGL from, restricted air space, even have the military involved because they benefit too.

We need a domestic drone manufacturing capability in the west like we need an aircraft industry and not just big corporate defense contractors. We need this at all levels too from FPV quad copters and RC planes up to satellite controlled UAVs. The hobby/business is very engineer intensive and much of the innovation springs from one or a group getting batches of designs made in China and sold online. For example, you can control a FPV drone using the 4G phone network and fly low level at long distances using a cell data dongle, there are people who sell such things online with YouTube tutorials. You can launch the RC plane and land it, using a regular RC transmitter then switch to the cell network or have it fly autonomously using GPS to return to home, if you lose the cell signal. This is where the innovation part comes into play and where new products are developed and ideas tried out that can turn into companies one day.
 

doublejj

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Neither do I, but I would like to see sensible regulations and air parks where licensed pilots are allowed more freedom. Right now, the industry is being stifled by regulations that are unjust and unnecessary. Outside of their use in war, the hobby community has caused little injury and no deaths that I'm aware of, golf has probably killed more people. However, since the war in Ukraine everybody can apprehend the potential threat they pose, if used with malicious intent. We can see how an RC plane can be easily turned into a GPS guided cruise missile or and FPV drone used as suicide drone. The problem is anybody can order the components like brushless motors, ESCs, flight control computers and GPS receivers online for very little cost. These components are mostly produced in China though and we have little domestic production and that is a concern.

A cell phone can be weaponized too and used to set off a bomb by receiving a call or by using its GPS function to detonate a truck bomb at a specific location using a dupe for a driver. It is all technology that can be used for either good or bad purposes.
We've all seen the grenade drop videos....that's not helping their case for de-regulation...
 

DIY-HP-LED

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We've all seen the grenade drop videos....that's not helping their case for de-regulation...
Yep and those are yer tame ariel video ones. Fortunately, there are fewer restrictions on sub 250-gram quads and planes and you don't need a license to fly them either. Too small to carry anything dangerous and won't do much damage hitting anything.

This will fly for 20 minutes (longer with Li-on) and go for miles in the right terrain with the long-range radio package, digital video FPV, like being there and records HD video. Sub 250 grams so no license required.


Flywoo Explorer LR4 HD DJI O3 - GREAT DRONE under 250 grams for CINEMATIC flights
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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DIY-HP-LED

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Yeah, I can see his convict army defending those Russian villages now, they would murder, loot and rape there just like in Ukraine. They would turn it into Hell and the Ukrainian backed Russian revolutionaries would be seen as saviors after a few months living under Wagner rule.


Wagner chief threatens to send troops to defend Russian border region | DW News

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The head of the mercenary Wagner group Yevgeni Prigozhin says he's ready to send his troops to defend the border region with Ukraine. The Belgorod region has seen a series of cross border attacks and shelling from Ukraine in recent days. Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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I ran across this in my twitter feed, it could be disinformation to get the Russians excited and moving back to Russia, or they could be doing to Vlad what he did to them in eastern Ukraine and Crimea. The area is ethnically Ukrainian with historical ties or perhaps Russian rebels want to carve out a base of operation. I can certainly see why there would be Russian rebels and I can see why joining them could be attractive to many in the army, they could be the nucleus of something bigger, those sent to fight them might end up joining them.

 

Fogdog

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I ran across this in my twitter feed, it could be disinformation to get the Russians excited and moving back to Russia, or they could be doing to Vlad what he did to them in eastern Ukraine and Crimea. The area is ethnically Ukrainian with historical ties or perhaps Russian rebels want to carve out a base of operation. I can certainly see why there would be Russian rebels and I can see why joining them could be attractive to many in the army, they could be the nucleus of something bigger, those sent to fight them might end up joining them.

 

DIY-HP-LED

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Hitler was acting like that near the end too... Looks like Vlad needs a good bitch slap back to reality.
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A Russian media claims: "Putin stopped receiving bad news reports, especially about the war, because of his "extremely irritated" reaction to those reports. According to an insider familiar with the situation, Putin reacted to reports containing the actual situation in the following manner: he irritatedly told the reporter that he [reporter] was currently under the influence of "Western propaganda" and was "thickening the clouds" in its wake, while Putin himself had more reliable information from other sources which did not coincide with the information provided by the rapporteurs. The journalist then would be dropped out of the list of people who have access to the Russian president for a long time. But those who reported only successes had permanent access, and defeats and failures were reduced to petty nuisances of no significance. The source says that at this point Putin simply stopped receiving "bad news" because the president does not want to hear it."

 
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