{"id":115044,"date":"2020-10-25T07:25:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T14:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/u-s-army-awards-pocket-sized-drones-20-6-million-contract"},"modified":"2020-10-25T07:25:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T14:25:30","slug":"u-s-army-awards-pocket-sized-drones-20-6-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/u-s-army-awards-pocket-sized-drones-20-6-million-contract","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army Awards Pocket-Sized Drones $20.6 Million Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-s-army-awards-pocket-sized-drones-20-6-million-contract.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. army will have pocket sized drones.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/new-algorithm-allows-a-swarm-of-mini-drones-to-fly-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/new-algorithm-allows-a-swarm-of-mini-drones-to-fly-together\">Nano drones<\/a> have become a major military tool over the past few years, and the most recent announcement of FLIR Systems being awarded an additional $20.6 million contract for their Black Hornet 3 Personal Reconnaissance Systems (PRS) by the U.S. Army is one big example of that.<\/p>\n<p>While the contract is huge, the FLIR Systems Black Hornet 3 is only the size of a cellphone. This extremely light and nearly silent drone can fly up to 25 minutes, and provide many military advantages in combat.<\/p>\n<p>With this second contract, FLIR Systems will be providing the service with additional miniature reconnaissance drones as part of the ongoing soldier-borne sensor program, National Defense <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/authors\/m\/mandy-mayfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. army will have pocket sized drones. Nano drones have become a major military tool over the past few years, and the most recent announcement of FLIR Systems being awarded an additional $20.6 million contract for their Black Hornet 3 Personal Reconnaissance Systems (PRS) by the U.S. Army is one big example of that. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}