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Maybe this is a dumb question but here goes. Why haven't drones (Original Post) snagglepuss Jul 2014 OP
what do you mean by "drones?" mike_c Jul 2014 #1
I meant the small ones. Wouldn't Russians have these sorts of drones? snagglepuss Jul 2014 #3
Saw a youtube video of a (seemingly) Russian hobbyist who had attached what I DocwillCuNow Jul 2014 #4
Quad copters would be ideal for initial survey of the unstable sides of the holes. Thor_MN Jul 2014 #2
We need a drone that is a mini-drone carrier krispos42 Jul 2014 #5

mike_c

(36,214 posts)
1. what do you mean by "drones?"
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 06:38 PM
Jul 2014

If you mean something with the range of the big drones, like the weapons platforms, that function could be performed just as well by piloted aircraft. That's where the aerial photos that have already been released came from. But those aircraft can really only fly overhead, so they're little better than airplanes and probably not nearly as good as helicopters.

If you mean small, radio controlled type drones with cameras attached, like quad-copters, we can't just "send" them around the world. They have limited range and so must be delivered to the sites and deployed there. While they might indeed be useful tools, once people are on site they can take measurements directly, enter the craters and photograph them directly, and so on.

snagglepuss

(12,704 posts)
3. I meant the small ones. Wouldn't Russians have these sorts of drones?
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 06:59 PM
Jul 2014

I've read that the land around these craters is too unstable to permit close inspection so I assumed that is why there hasn't been any photos from deep inside the holes.

 

DocwillCuNow

(162 posts)
4. Saw a youtube video of a (seemingly) Russian hobbyist who had attached what I
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 07:20 PM
Jul 2014

think was a fairly decent size machine gun underneath it. Sort of reminded me of the last terminator movie.

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
5. We need a drone that is a mini-drone carrier
Mon Jul 28, 2014, 10:17 PM
Jul 2014

Something long-ranged, like a Global Hawk, that carries a couple of tiny drones that it can deploy.


Sort of like that dirigible in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".

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