Bob McCarty Writes

File this under “cool video.”

On April 7, Prox Dynamics announced that it had flight-tested the latest PD-100 Black Hornet prototype, the Hornet-3a helicopter, outdoors for the first time.  After watching the video above, I can’t help but think law enforcement officials must be salivating over the surveillance and crime-fighting potential the “nanocopter” offers.

Believed to be one of the smallest complete Unmanned Aircraft Systems ever developed, according to the Norwegian company, the PD-100 Black Hornet weighs only 15 grams — or just over a half-ounce.  Incredibly, the company says the sound produced by the helicopter is completely drowned by the ambient noise outside a distance of approximately three meters.

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