"Pocket Drones’: U.S. Army Developing Tiny Surveillance... " Topic

…Tools For The Next Big War.

"Future U.S. Army soldiers sent into combat may have a brand new tool at their disposal: the pocket drone.

The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center in Massachusetts is developing a "pocket-sized aerial surveillance device" for soldiers assigned to small units in dangerous environments.

When the Army's efforts come to fruition, the Cargo Pocket Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance program will provide dismounted troops with real-time surveillance of threats in their environment…"
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Armand

During a number of protests against the Bush administration, some dragonfly-sized drones were repeatedly spotted by onlookers on account the dummies flying the drones were flying them in formation.

….'so is that a DRONE in your pocket…or are you just glad to see me????'

SOMEBODY had to say it!!!

Sgt DWW-btod

That all sounds a bit far fetched Coelacanth, even a bit like a conspiracy theory … but I wasn't there so … who knows ?

Dragonfly-sized?

Well, a cellphone's camera would fit in that size unit, but flight time is going to be horrible, on the order of minutes.

I've seen footage of dragon-fly sized drones being developed, and they can fly in formation, autonomously, without crashing into one another, or under the control of a single person, so that wouldn't surprise me. They probably have multiples, in order to be able to get camera views of multiple angles at once (perhaps they haven't developed a wide-angle viewing capability for them yet).

Would love to see some footage though.

Man, must redouble my efforts on the trained, suicide hummingbird project.

@Lion in the Stars

Current theory was that the dragonfly drones were operating on broadcast power, maybe microwaves.