{"id":87364,"date":"2019-02-03T13:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T21:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-us-army-is-equipping-soldiers-with-pocket-sized-recon-drones"},"modified":"2019-02-03T13:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T21:22:25","slug":"the-us-army-is-equipping-soldiers-with-pocket-sized-recon-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-us-army-is-equipping-soldiers-with-pocket-sized-recon-drones","title":{"rendered":"The US Army Is Equipping Soldiers With Pocket-Sized Recon Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-us-army-is-equipping-soldiers-with-pocket-sized-recon-drones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Army has placed a $39 million order for tiny reconnaissance drones, small enough to fit in a soldier\u2019s pocket or palm.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind the drones, which are made by FLIR Systems and look like tiny menacing helicopters, is that soldiers will be able to send them into the sky of the battlefield in order to get a \u201clethal edge\u201d during combat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-soldiers-will-soon-receive-these-awesome-new-pocket-sized-drones-2019-2\">according to <em><i>Business Insider<\/i><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/us-army-pocket-sized-recon-drones\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/us-army-pocket-sized-recon-drones<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Army has placed a $39 million order for tiny reconnaissance drones, small enough to fit in a soldier\u2019s pocket or palm. The idea behind the drones, which are made by FLIR Systems and look like tiny menacing helicopters, is that soldiers will be able to send them into the sky of the battlefield [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87364","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}