Croatian UAV for fire fighting

[helirious]

It holds 1/2 gallon water to put out bbq's

[brentsrx7]

So its a foam rc plane with a camera..... Come on guys, you can do better then that

[aeromao2007]

what is your website

[TitoSuperDrug]

This guy is very skilled and experienced UAV pilot (I saw him few times during war). If you don't agree, try this tipe of landing ;)

This is a test model, quality is just about replacing a building material.

[nautiluZt1]

what a morons the croatians are... and why we just can't sale the small 25 km operational radius (due to laws limited Rx Tx system) and two hours endurance small uav exactly for this purpose? with much better sensorics fyi

[Sexomaniakos4ever]

This is what I call HI-TECH.. .Wooww!! Croatian...

[statist0815]

Wow what a sophisticated way to land. Never saw a show off landing like this.

[Rangerfull3]

asdf

[vanepico]

can't be a very good UAV if it can't land, more like de thermalise its self then fall out of the sky...

[krbosak]

@vanepico

oh really now comment Aerovironment Raven.

[utti104]

lol he caught the plane directly from air

[cannnonfoddder]

subtitles please...

[nokiadtd]

This model is made for the Croatia Fire Department. It flies 300 meters over the ground, in a radius of 5 kilometars. It records situation on the fire ground and sends it to the operator, so he can dispose fire units on the best positions to encounter with fire.

[ChickenHawk110]

Whats the go with 0:34 and 1:01? See the model canopy? Its like the military simply used a fibreglass hobby grade sailplane model and bolted a sensor package and autopilot to it. LOL, I am truly impressed. I mean that sort of project is done by robotics students! Off the shelf software I bet!

[colddrake80]

That is probably exactly what they did. If they did the unit cost might be a couple hundred bucks. Probably less than 1000 per UAV. That is pretty good. I know it might sound silly but if you can cut down on the ground control equipment some of these could be placed at the company level. That could come in really handy.

[ChickenHawk110]

Nah, model grade and hobby grade equipment, whilst novel, simply does not have the durability to deploy to the field of an AO. Yes I would know about this. Heck, hobby models like this hardly have the durability to use these models for cheap "training" purposes. Anything with military or similar application simply MUST have full composite carbon/kevlar airframes and industrial quality hardware. Anything less they will be wasting their time.

[krbosak]

@ChickenHawk110

Off the shelf autopilot. off the shelf anything, except sensor pod.

This is how a product is made, not out of a pocket, not out of a hat, but off the shelf.

[ChickenHawk110]

@krbosak

Indeed. COTS equipment is quite suitable and capable for a state department.

But that is NOT how products are made, thank you.

Its a $90 off the shelf powered glider with damn balsa wings.

Like I said, no durability for longevity of life at all.

Build a $1200 kevlar/carbon airframe of the same design and it will CERTAINLY outlast 15 of these hobby grade models.

Seen all this before. Pay for quality now, or pay for it later, with all the downtime you cant afford.

[dajsinjo]

živjelo aviomodelarstvo!