is it a bird is it a plane
nope it's a UAV and your next question
should be what the hell does it do
welcome to watchmojo.com and we're
counting down the top five facts about
drones in time there'll be a whole
family of Amazon drones different
designs for different environments
drones have become a major topic of
debate in our modern society and love
former Hatem they are set to become an
increasingly common sight both in
military operations and in the sky above
your very own backyard
number five drones are growing faster as
consumer good then as a military
application
maybe you had a remote control car
growing up or perhaps even an RC plane
if your parents were really into buying
new windows but chances are your kids
are going to be playing with drones the
estimated value of the drone industry in
2015 was 3.3 billion dollars but that
figure is projected to balloon to 90
billion by 2025 like most technologies
the becoming increasingly cost effective
to manufacture and more user-friendly
according to the company 3d robotics
more customers are building and flying
their DIY drones than the amount
currently operated by the US military
but drones aren't limited to hobbyists
they're becoming a versatile tool across
a variety of domains farmers use them to
serve a large crop fields they can be
used in search and rescue missions and
they've even become a trendy must-have
for wedding photographers number four
police are now using drones instead of
being equipped with missiles though this
little guy carries a camera that at most
weighs 35 ounces speaking of application
for drones back home how do you feel
knowing that your local police force
could be watching you from above it
might sound like George Orwell's 1984
come true but let's stay optimistic and
hope they don't go all Big Brother on us
there are many ways in which drones
could prove to be useful and effective
tools in the hands of a responsible
force including better documentation of
crime scenes and efficient aerial
searches for either missing persons or
violent criminals at large unfortunately
in the United States the exact limits of
what police can or cannot do with drones
have thus far only been established on a
state level with no federal legislation
in place number three drone delivery the
pizza boy's postal workers or even
waiters of the future delivery from
tired of waiting on your pizza delivery
guy enter the drew drone which will be
used to deliver pizza in New Zealand
from a single dominos location coupled
with a self-driving 4 wheel drew Pizza
robot which drives itself down the
sidewalk from the restaurant to your
home pizza delivery boys are starting to
look like an endangered species
however this isn't the only attempt at
employing drones to replace service
staff but after a drone crashed into one
customers face at a TGI Friday's New
York City some people are understandably
wary perhaps the most promising
application of drone based delivery is
the Amazon drone delivery system which
hopes to deliver parcels in 30 minutes
or less in urban areas number two drones
have taken a staggering number of lives
drone strikes will be as much a
characteristic of the Obama presidency
as a bomber care or receiving racist
email for words from distant relatives
drones can be a lot of fun and maybe
even laden with pizza but the driving
force behind them is military
applications Predator drones were first
deployed in Afghanistan to locate and
perform recon on Osama bin Laden and
they found him since then
the total number of deaths by drone
strike have been highly contested the
White House revealed their tally of
deaths and it's well below the estimates
made by NGOs the government cites
anywhere between 64 and 116 civilian
deaths spread across 473 strikes which
killed over 2,000 terrorists combatants
but the Bureau of Investigative
Journalism estimates that the civilian
death toll is realistically between 424
and 966 and that's just in Pakistan
number one drones have a surprisingly
long history a history of drones is much
longer and richer than their recent
popularity might have you believe in
fact the earliest examples of
rudimentary armed drones can be traced
back to 18-49 when Austrian forces
attached explosives to unmanned hot-air
balloons in hopes of flying them over
Italy and triggering the bombs via long
copper wires the plan failed but the
concept was established the Kettering
bug a flying torpedo was developed for
World War one but never deployed the
term drone is said to have been coined
in 1935 when unmanned target planes were
being developed by 1964 early versions
of modern drones were being used in
Vietnam and the rest is history
so what application of drones do you
find most concerning or the most
exciting for more self-driving top tens
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