Submitted 11 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://newatlas.com/drones/freefly-systems-flying-sun-1000-drone-lighting/
Sometimes a flashlight just isn’t enough. The Flying Sun 1000 drone system was designed with that fact in mind, as it uses 288 airborne LEDs to light up the night like the alien mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
$60k, 5min flight time or you can run an extension cord to it that’s hooked up to a generator. Cool beans!
Cause ya know, flares haven’t existed for over a hundred years or anything.
The long burning parachute flares have to be dropped from an aircraft. The ones you launch from the ground only provide about 30 seconds of light.
Yeah but howitzers are even mote expensive :(
stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 11 months ago
this will be really useful when the government needs to flush out refugees, dissidents and resistance members. no more using darkness to hide from the automated kill bots and private security patrols, purging the countryside will be so much easier without having to fiddle with pesky night vision optics!
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The killbots will just use thermal, way harder to hide from and relatively cheap if you care about quanitity and netoworking more than quality.