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Quadcopters are in the lower tier of all drone types. Fixed-wing drones are more suited to military applications due to greater range and payload capacity, not
by flavio81 9y ago
Quadcopters are in the lower tier of all drone types. Fixed-wing drones are more suited to military applications due to greater range and payload capacity, not to mention speed.
- qq66 9y agoThere are too many different "military applications" to say that. For sending a drone into a building with possible enemy soldiers, a rotary-wing is definitely better than a fixed-wing.
- jsjohnst 9y agoWho says the only use case the military has is to carry weapons and/or perform remote surveillance? Just as plausible they’d use them to survey military owned buildings looking for structural defects, promotional videos of military life, or any other use case that a normal commercial user of DJI products might have.
- abakker 9y agoFixed wing drones require missions, procurement, permissions etc. rotor drones give you plenty of airborn vantage and photography ability for next to no money and minimal risk.
- trhway 9y agoThe VTOL and hovering capabilities are very useful platoon-level tactical capabilities. Typical usage example from Donbass war - the first 30 sec. of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHo7x2Vcjjg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHo7x2Vcjjg
- pjc50 9y agoBut Raptor/Predator drones aren't man-portable. Highly maneuverable portable drones are going to be a key part of urban conflict in the next century of the ongoing war in the middle east, just as the RPG and IED have been.
- Density 9y agoThe army uses man portable fixed wing drones very often.
- ceejayoz 9y ago> Fixed-wing drones are more suited to military applications due to greater range and payload capacity, not to mention speed. Ah, yes. The same reasons the Army no longer uses any helicopters at all.