via Andy_RR: Less than $500 is all you need to build a fully autonomous flying vehicle. It helps if you can write a spot of bug-free C code though and testing it could be slightly cumbersome. There's a few HIL solutions for the initial de-bug though but that will only get you so far.
Really though, if it isn't this, it's another method and making something illegal isn't going to stop it - the data to build this stuff is already out there. Heck, you can write some code for your Android telephone to control your UAV these days and have it ring through a five-mile call to the destination...
I hope Australia isn't stupid enough to tie this growth industry all up in useless red tape.
Andy_RR, if the UAV dispatcher were based in Oz then he would probably only get one go with a UAV bomb. If the 'driver' were within radio range of the UAV it wouldn't even need GPS.
As i've posted in other threads an Oz based terror group would more then likely get rounded up before they launched anything.
...on the other hand though, an offshore launched GPS guided UAV bomb probably wouldn't be noticed until it made some noise. Then where did it come from?, who sent it?, when's the next one arriving..?
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