Isreal's Defence Force is looking to buy... DJI Maxic Pro?
The Israel's Defense Forces (IDF) is purchasing and arming their soldiers with DJI Mavic Pro,
a drone meant for the everyday people and professional. As reported by Jane's Defence Weekly.
Janes Defense Weekly is a military-only news magazine will history going on since 1898, that's over 119 years ago!
Reported by Yaakov Lapppin and Jeremy Binnie, 2 of the respected military journalist and researchers in Janes. Reported that a source within the IDF high-ups told to the defense magazine.
"We are going with the most highly sold unmanned aerial systems, those produced by DJI..."
"We are buying the Mavic [Pro], their flagship product, and for more professional units we are buying the Matrice [100], which has better abilities, more time in the air, other kinds of cameras,"
He mentioned DJI Mavic Pro and the DJI Matrice 100. Both products by DJI but with very very different purposes. The DJI Mavic Pro is a user-friendly plug and play drone with camera. Easy to use lightweight at only 700+ grams including batteries. The Matrice 100 however is more tailored for developers and modifiers. It is a lightweight frame with all the essentials built in, it can fly and that's it. The beauty is that developers and modifiers can add anything they want on both hardware and software. Hardware by using the good 'ol weld and solder, and software by using SDK, Software Development Kit.
This is not a permanent solution though, The IDF already has it's own personnel drones in the works. Afterall, Isreal made awesome drone already since back in 2005.
And they do have personnel drone "The Tzur", roughly translated to "The Rock" in Hebrew. An advanced HUGE hexcopter drone (10 to 15 kg and blade span of almost 1.5 meters) which will be operational in about a year from now. Which i believe will act as the main eagle eye surveillance drone flying at hundreds of meters in the sky. While the Mavic act as ground sitrep-type drone that will peer at tight corners. With the Matrice probably work in specialized platoon doing specialized ops it was tailor-designed for.
As of this year they will be purchasing and deploying these consumer drones before December. This will go down in history as the first ever mass-purchase of consumer drones by a government military. As well as DJI's first ever public drone order by a military body. And judging by their plans to have drones in every company, DJI is about to have a beautiful looking sales quarter ahead.
There is nothing like tech but hopefully people will not treat war as a game.
Indeed. Peace and life is what we all wish for. Though the prospect wars and battles are exciting to the insane few, what the rest of us can do is to live our lives the best way possible to avert bloodshed and stop hatred from spreading by living our lives with goodwill and love for humanity.
As Plato said : war is only exciting for those who have not seen it.
Well said my friend!
the next major war will be more like a video game
Video game to the people behind the screen. But apocalypse for those caught in the "game location".
Every country has been hoarding arms.. Lets hope no country is crazy enough to light a fire.
Lets hope that everyone has something to lose in a war that war will never be considered.
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