{"id":94194,"date":"2019-07-28T11:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T18:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-crazy-v-bat-vertical-takeoff-and-landing-drone-could-be-a-game-changer"},"modified":"2019-07-28T11:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T18:42:59","slug":"the-crazy-v-bat-vertical-takeoff-and-landing-drone-could-be-a-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/the-crazy-v-bat-vertical-takeoff-and-landing-drone-could-be-a-game-changer","title":{"rendered":"The Crazy V-Bat Vertical Takeoff And Landing Drone Could Be A Game Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Tit60EvBVA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Navy sent its expeditionary fast transport ship USNS <em>Spearhead <\/em> to sea to experiment with a number of cutting-edge technologies last week, including MartinUAV\u2019s novel V-Bat drone. V-Bat is capable of infrastructure-independent vertical takeoff and landings while also retaining the high efficiency of a fixed-wing aircraft for long-endurance missions. Seeing as it can be launched and recovered in a nine square meter area and even in dense urban terrain, as well as on the tight decks of ships, the drone could have a lot of applications in the military, law enforcement\/first responder, industrial, and environmental monitoring sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy sent its expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Spearhead to sea to experiment with a number of cutting-edge technologies last week, including MartinUAV\u2019s novel V-Bat drone. V-Bat is capable of infrastructure-independent vertical takeoff and landings while also retaining the high efficiency of a fixed-wing aircraft for long-endurance missions. Seeing as it can be launched [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1493,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-law-enforcement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94194","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}