Nano UAV - Black Hornet - PD-100 PRS 

Its insane how well he was hiding. Standing straight up in the open like that.

I love how they add helicopter buzzing sounds even though the thing is so quiet you can’t even hear it from two feet away

Why does the voiceover sound like it's recorded in a toilet?

That’s a insane hiding spot standing in the middle of a opening in the woods with a 20ft shadow

That guy on the cliff sucks at hiding.

"Paul is the drone's target. He is going to hide. About 1km away, at the top of small cliff" Next to the stone shaped as a cube behind the tree with no leaves among a forest, where no other tree suffers from leaf-loss. Yeah, this is indeed "reconnaissance". :D

LOL the target was standing out in the open looking at the heli with a smile. what a tough target it was

The latest model of black hornet got much quieter, lighter and compact now.

The system is only available for government agencies; www.bssholland.com/#!en/products/nano-uas-pd-100-black-hornet.html

Damn this guy is the reason we now have awesome cheap mini rc helis. cheers bro.

The point of this drone is that it is SO small, and therefore stealthy. The design principle of making the target weight a priority, rather than down-scaling, is correct. Kudos to these engineers. Now if thermal imaging can be brought aboard, it will be an incredible platform. And Cheap. And available to all. Shazbot!

Of course the military would pay 30 grand for an Air Hog.

Oh yeah I would definitely buy this, I just gotta hope my enemy is standing still in an open field waiting for me to come so I can find him. Best invention ever

20 min is a lot of time for a small heli like this! The toy market last 7 - 8 min. My big drone last 15 - 20 min. and that cost is over $500 bucks. But I can get battery upgrade for 25 min.

Arnold Helibus was the first successful indoor helicopter. I had one as a child.

2020: Now we have the DJi Mavic Mini...

for tens of thousands of dollars I'll just buy a DJI Phantom, rig it with and HD camera and also mount a mini gun to finish the job. LOL.

"They've located their target HIDING on the top of the cliff" I don't think HIDING is the way to put it.

We were really impressed by this when it came out.

'Target' was hiding? Yeah..sure...more like standing in the middle of open field, far from trees. Which enemy does that?

This is what you call a force multiplier. Individual squads in an infantry platoon could have these. On demand battlefield intelligence is priceless.

Hiding standing up in a 30 ft clearing on top of a hill that they new he would be amazing

I like how it’s just 5 years ago and now we have better stuff as civilians

this needs to be combined with 3d video technology and some lightweight VR glasses for the operator.

"pocket sized" base station 0:53

Very cool, but I'm a bit confused about the price. Nearly $200,000 for the whole setup? I realize that this is a piece of military hardware, but I could build something similar (not as small) for less than five thousand dollars out of an Align Trex 700 or 800e with GPS, autopilot, first person cameras, electronic stabilization, a higher operational ceiling, and could potentially carry weapons. Tack on another 10-15 thousand and I could throw in a thermal camera.

Everybody gangsta till the black hornet starts flyin

$195,000 ill just buy a full sized helicopter LOL

I see these things flying around in my local mall all the time. Usually flown by some Indian dude.

Таких дронов можно по-идее будет перехватывать (в малом корпусе скорее всего не будет сильного шифрования канала), либо просто засорять эфир, чтобы они потеряли управление. Также никто не говорит, но ведь источник управления может быть обнаружен по источнику сигнала и устранён, об этом почему то никто не говорит, видимо, расчёт, что использоваться будет против сил не имеющих таких технологий.

Incredibly compact UAV

Excellent job to cram so many features into such a small package. Bravo!👏 I was thinking that the white body would be a bit conspicuous though, maybe area appropriate camo is used in the field?

Thats a high quality camera..

the narrator sounds like he's in a box..

We can thank those people for making this world such a beautiful place to be...

"Far out and high up." Well spoken.

Yep thats definitly a pocket sized base station

Seriously? If any government wants this, they should just go to amazon. Hope they have prime! Anyways, I could get something with higher resolution for less than 1000 dollars.

Interesting little UAV-Drone... Nano tech is growing. See you in the skies.

10k for this camera quality. just blown my mind

4:03 Yeah... "hiding"

A lot of people can build a quad-rotor out of self contained, modular parts that can do autonomous flight and surveillance for a fraction of the cost. All these guys are doing is taking already existing technology and soldering it onto one PCB.

i would like to see more video on how well it flys outside - B/c bring out 1 of them micro copters from the mall & it will fly away & never comes back.

I can't imagine the battery life is that long. Probably uses a capacitor to hold a charge like the kids toys. An amazing design though

In the beginning, the announcer with the muffled voice said the 'target' was hiding over a kilometer away. But at the end, he said the helicopter traveled 1300 meters. If they found the target, was directly overhead of him, and traveled back, while he was over 1km away, the helicopter would have had to travel over 2000 meters round trip. Therefore, I call bullshit.

Or you can just use a racing drone and employed a fpv pro drone pilot to find the target

Can it fly in windy conditions? Can it follow target? What about automated runs? Monitor an area assigning its own path ways. Can return to recharge when needed. Can it recover from crashing? Does it have thermal-vision? Current camera looked like crap. What db level does it have atm? Sounded pretty loud to me. Anyway. These kind of drones can be prevented with an electric-bubble aka electric-net. In combination with other protections Drones are not really a threat. Still a fun geeky technical challenge though. Very expensive but fun.

I'm glad he designed this. I have about 12 tiny helicopters And 7 tiny whoops , the whoops all have 5.8 F.P.V. cameras 😎👍 The kid down the street , has even more of them than i do 😀

Darth Vader narrating this??

and soon you'll be able to 3d print most parts of it and then just go buy small cameras and all the other stuff and build one for less than 100$...

This heli had thermal vision and night vision and many good things...like weather proof,you can takeoff even it’s raining,,and had GPS,,you can fly within 1.8KM for distance I mean,,able to fly within 8-12KNT

So this thing cost tens of thousands of dollars, and they were impressed it could go barely under 1km while getting what appears to be like 240p live feed. Fast forward 7 years to 2020 and you can buy a DJI Mavic mini 2 drone for like $400 and you can fly it up to 10km while having full control through a HD live feed. Technology is wild.

Awful video quality, poor maneuverability, probably poor flight time and much too noisy. I guess it's good enough for government work.At any rate it's government-priced.

Why not buy a Hubsan with better cam for 50 busks? 10.000 dollars for a gps? I Think i Can make one for 100$, with the same specs

When they say 'hiding on the top of the cliff' they meant standing in clear view.

So the top speed is 6.2 miles and then what it stops. 20 clicks is a distance not a speed.

don't worry china will copy this too soon

particularly important, battery life =)

Found the target hiding. Yes out in a open area. Im a quad pilot myself so i uderstand what your talking about. Very cool heli though. Well done!

''spycam'' makes more noise than hell itself

Dear Santa...

God i hate the narrator's voice "listen to how science-y i am!"

Great job, Congratulations

A Chinese drone maker can make such a package for about $200. The reason why others can't enter the drone industry is that DJI has most of the key drone related patents.

Tens of thousands of dollars/pounds/currency?!!! Ridiculous amount of money for just a 'model' with a camera and GPS!

What is wrong with the narrator audio

Looks too good to be true. Especially when they showed all those huge solder joints inside.

I think its auto pilot might be an issue in a jungle environment or an urban environment, then the user might have to manually return the drone to base, which could be a pain in the ass when going through/around obstacles.

$195, 000.00????

10k USD ! :D now you can buy smt like this for 100 USD :D China... you did it again...

I saw a few drones going 20 miles for a price of $800 with GPS, better cams etc

Very nice drone

"Each one costs tens of thousands of dollars" Yeah, if you sell to the military you can charge tens of thousands of dollars :) Since I build stuff like this I know how cheaply they can be made.

why the fuck does it costs 10s of thousands of dollars?

Looks like it uses coils/magnets for the cyclic control?

Impressive! I assume the production military versions will be camoflaged rather than stark black and white.

Tens of thousands of dollars for what cost less than $100 to make, another way to waste tax payers money.

Wow! Since this is so easy and cheap why are there no videos posted here from you idiots that think you can build one of these for less than a $100? I don't understand how you think this is a toy. Yes you can buy rc heli's with gyro's on the cheap.....but guess what, they are basically garbage. So good luck following this one on the trip he demonstrated. Decent hobbygrade rc helis can cost up to $1000 and the real good ones can easily hit ten grand and take many man hours to build. There are none with these capabilities this tiny. A run of the mill gps unit is $300 and 3 times the size of that pd-100. A lithium polymer battery small enough to fit in there and power all the systems for this thing would be at least $200 alone. In the RC FPV world, something that fly's that far on a gps auto fn pilot costs minimum 4 figures and they are HUGE compared to this little guy.

The only reason that they cost $10000s of dollars is that R&D is being factored in. The reporters know full-well that losing one is not a particularly expensive problem.

Now this is a drone. A vehical capable of fully autonomous operation. Yet some people call every multi rotor on the market a drone.

@1:02 "It quickly reaches a top speed of about 20 klicks". A klick is jargon for kilometer, so the top speed 20 kilometers? That makes no sense. Did the narrator mean it can move at 20 kilometers per hour or was he saying the maximum distance on one charge is 20 kilometers?

I didn't see a target hiding on top of the cliff. I saw one out in the open looking up. But at 3:59, any one of those trees would have sufficiently hidden any person.

Seen a few DIY projects just as good for few dollars, imagine when nano technology is used

A very impressive implementation.

Crazy how you can buy drones just as small if not smaller with a decent camera for around 35 bucks.

No surprise its Swiss -- experts at nano design. They've been nanoengineering complex luxury watches for years

Ahora toca decicir si servira para salvar vidas o destruirlas, aunque todos sabemos la respuesta, la numero 2.

Imagine a team of search and rescue people using a half dozen larger versions of these to scour a valley for missing hikers. They could search the whole area in minutes without leaving the vehicle area. When the hikers are spotted, the team heads in the proper direction to make the rescue. The camera resolution would need to be increased to provide much better video, and bigger batteries for longer flight time. It needs to be more quiet if used for surveillance. How about a larger 5 bladed rotor with better blade design to make it silent?

Children using air weapons and soldiers using science fiction toys and is just the begining in the nanotech revolution.

1:53 a reminder to follow your happy dreams.

$200,000. That's insane. You can buy a nano drone from AliExpress with a passible camera for $25. I have one with me right now in fact.

The price of this thing is clearly in the software, like many objects today. The hardware is not so expensive but the code is private so when buying one of these you pay for the algorithms...

Excellent job by our friend's company

quite stealthy with that loud motor noise

The propellers should be designed in a way to reduce turbulence

Take a look at multiplex´s funcopter, i know its larger but there was one smaller modified version of it

its a beautiful thing, how i wish we had a world of peace-driven individuals whose creativity and energy were exhausted in the creation of something new to make this world a better place with no wars.... its a pity that the developer himself argues how important his design was for a corporate war in Afghanistan,,,a war for financial gains.... Thats many of us are constrained to appreciate such invention....

I cannot imagine something so small being able to be reasonably controlled in winds above 10 mph. What can be said about this?

1:05 = about 20 Klicks is not a speed , but a 1 KM distance, BUT 20 clicks per hour = 20Kph or over 12 miles per hour

holy crap, that thing is compact