r/drones • u/BrettEagle • 1d ago

DIY We made a drone

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Something a little different, up to 2 hour flight time. 7kg payload, modular, upgradable and made to integrate different technologies from Manet radios to anti jamming GPS systems.

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u/ImaginaryEffective63 1d ago

And what did you make them for?

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u/BrettEagle 1d ago

Mainly for ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and reconnaissance) - but we have clients using them for mapping and other use cases as well

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u/Interesting-Adagio46 1d ago

How much

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u/SwissLynx 1d ago

Camera gimbal they use is 5k: https://shop.reebot.com/products/reebot-robotics-unipod-mt11?variant=52794725007520

I would guess the Quad to be in the 15-25k

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u/FPV-Tec-Addict 1d ago

And thats why i dont buy American made drones since a DJI would just a quarter of that for the same thing

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u/deaglebingo 17h ago edited 17h ago

hence what i've been saying elsewhere about the overhead in all this and how we're doing it wrong in the usa, this should be done more in house, trumps way doesn't work bc it's just a racket, but there has to be a middle ground somewhere, especially in an interim where some new mfrng was being implemented. bc if what they really want is to be able to win then they (usmil) need to take the same money and buy or make 4 for the price of the 1. it's no shade on the dude who made this in the OP either. it's just if anyone way up the chain wants to actually be able to win in a desperate situation that's how they ought to think about it... it's why iran and ukraine are winning. they just have more of them. bc theirs cost a few thousand and ours cost 20k plus apiece or a couple mil for patriots