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by Aeolun 1681 days ago
To be fair, work on recovering drone aircraft in midair can be employed for a whole lot more than just military purposes.
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I could imagine it being useful for search and rescue missions
Can you imagine how this would the increase the search radius of a air rescue mission? One search and rescue flight looking for survivors could launch a half dozen drones each extending the explored area by thousands of square kilometres per hour.
How often are drones used for anything of that sort? Any actual examples? Or are you just purely fantasizing?
Drones are pretty quickly being adopted by search and rescue and firefighting organizations. No reason to think that's gonna stop.

https://www.birminghamtimes.com/2021/11/video-drone-rescue-s...

"Search and rescue" seems to be given as the use-case for every new development in robotics. Is it basically a meme in that field by this point?