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Over recent years, more than 30 Chinese military and government agencies have been reportedly using drones made to look like birds to surveil China's citizens in at least five provinces, according to the South China Morning Post Sunday.
The program is reportedly codenamed "Dove" and run by Song Bifeng, a professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an. Song was formerly a senior scientist on the Chengdu J-20, Asia's first fifth-generation stealth fighter jet, according to the Post.
The bird-like drones mimic the flapping wings of a real bird using a pair of crank-rockers driven by an electric motor. Each drone has a high-definition camera, GPS antenna, flight control system and data link with satellite communication capability, according to the Post.
While the "scale is still small", according to Yang Wenqing, a member of Song's team in a comment to the Post, the researchers "believe the technology has good potential for large-scale use in the future ... it has some unique advantages to meet the demand for drones in the military and civilian sectors."
(Score: 2) by arslan on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:13PM (5 children)
You've obviously never been to Australia. Here we have to watch out for seagulls mugging our food, magpies that swoop in to claw your face if you cycle past their territory, cockatoos peeling your wooden deck, gangs of cockatoos playing "chicken" to see who can flyby across the windshield of a moving car, lyre bird laughing like a crazed super villain on a loudspeaker in the middle of the night, and the list goes on... I believe Alfred must have done a stint down under..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:19PM (3 children)
And the dingoes eating your baby. And the spiders, scorpions, and snakes killing you dead. And the kangaroos punching you in your dead face.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:37PM (1 child)
Move to India if you are afraid of badh animals:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/11811135/Parrot-arrested-for-swearing-at-85-year-old-woman-in-India.html [telegraph.co.uk]
(Score: 1) by oldmac31310 on Thursday June 28 2018, @02:48PM
The Telegraph? Seriously. SN is a sewer of sub intellect. The smartest seem to be the worst, i.e. TMB, Runaway and their scum cohorts. Sad when intelligence is coupled with sociopathy.
(Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:45PM
I'd rather play PVE than PVP.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @10:46PM
Here in the states we have what's called Big Bird. It's yellow, very big, and smells like diapers. We also have Tweety, Big Birds little cousin. Then there's the most terrifying poisonous bird ever, we call it Hellary.