New Delhi: It is 2 cm long and weighs 0.3 grams. It has two small wings and three spindly legs. No, it is not an insect, but China has a new military drone that can change the game of secret war forever. Developed in a robotics laboratory at the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in the Hunan province of Central China, micro-drain can be used to probably to revolutionize various industries and services.
Its wings flaps 500 times per second. Its size makes it almost undesirable by the traditional radar system. It has a stick-skinned body, which is packed heavy with the sensor and it is an engineer in such a way that it looks like a mosquito.
Bonic Microdrone was first displayed on China’s state-driven military broadcaster, CCTV -7“Here I have a mosquito -like robot in my hand,” Liang Haxiang, a student of Nadt, said on the broadcast. He said, “Such short bionic robots are particularly suited to information reconnaissance and special missions on the battlefield,” he said.
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Media reports suggest that micro-drain can be deployed in flocks for war and spy purposes. However, experts say, so far there is no evidence that the displayed prototype can be deployed for field operations. China is actively researching Swarm technologies to obtain micro-drain in action, but is facing many challenges.
One of the biggest challenges is his extremely limited power, only enough for indoor flights. The weight and height of the drone, although a large extent has an advantage in secret operation, comes with a lack of payload.
Fitting camera, microphone and communication interceptor is a major engineering challenge. In this newborn stage, external use is, impractical because even a light air can unstable the subtle drone. Currently, the dream of a mosquito -shaped drone is limited to an experimental laboratory.
Bryas Barros, a security partner at the Washington -based Truman National Security Project, told Newsweek: “The effect of this mosquito -shaped drone on the monitoring of the war will probably be minimal due to its limited capacity, small range and presumed small battery life.”
Regardless of mosquito drone boundaries, there are speculation that, with modifications, it can see the daylight of day outside a laboratory.
So the potential impact and scope of these almost invisible monitoring devices is still an exciting possibility. From military reconnaissance to citizen misuse, these microdrones are aimed at the user’s hands.
This can infiltrate areas beyond traditional weapons access, while civic use of drones for espionage and industrial and political espionage cannot be denied. However, its ability to gather information without detection presents legal and moral dilemmas.
Rand Corporation Senior Defense Researcher Timothy Heath told Wire: “If China is able to produce mosquito -shaped drones, it is probably interested in using them for various intelligence, monitoring and reconnaissance functions, especially in places that struggle to access large drones, such as indoor areas.”
Other countries have already felt the change in modern war technologies and are exploring rapid miniatures. Norway has developed a palm-shaped helicopter-style micro-UAV, called ‘Black Hornet’, already in use by several armed forces including the US Army. The ‘Black Hornet’ comes with built-in cameras and sensors, which is controlled by the unit in a small hand.
In 2019, Harvard scientists published the updated research papers of their ‘Robby’ model, which looks similar to the Chinese Microdron.
According to Harvard’s WYSS Institute, some versions of ‘Robobi’ are some versions of swimming from under water to swim from under water to swim “or” versions of pamphlets on surfaces using static electricity. It has also claimed to build an autonomous UAV that can be used for monitoring agriculture and environmental monitoring.
The current prototype manufactured by NUDT remains a lab demo as China steps into a domain of global micro -air vehicles, providing a glimpse in a future where war and spicraft will be measured in millimeters, not in rockets or tanks.
Dedipya Agarwal is an intern who graduated from Diprin School of Journalism
(Edited by Winnie Mishra)
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