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Skydio
Skydio is an American manufacturer of Unmanned aerial vehicle, drones headquartered in San Mateo, California, San Mateo, California. The company manufactures drones for use in battlefield situation awareness, policing, and inspection. Their drones can complete fully autonomous missions with the use of a dock to automatically recharge. As of November 2024, over 50% of Skydio’s business was with military customers, particularly the United States Department of Defense with up to 22,000 reported. The drones are also used by allies of the United States, including the UK Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Ministry of Defence, the Israel Defense Forces, the Indian Armed Forces, the Royal Canadian Navy and in Ukraine. Skydio drones were sold in the commercial market, where they held a 4% market share , but in August 2023 Skydio announced they were exiting the consumer market. Skydio drones can carry payloads, such as grenades, but they have been criticized for failing to fly at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skydio X2
The Skydio X2 is an American teleoperated compact quadcopter Unmanned aerial vehicle, drone produced by Skydio. Introduced in July 2020, he X2 is intended for both military and civilian use and has also been produced in India by AeroArc. Design and development In 2020, Skydio announced the X2 series as an enlarged derivative of the Skydio 2 consumer drone for military and corporate use. Compared to the Skydio 2, the X2 features a strengthened Carbon-fiber reinforced polymer, carbon fiber airframe with folding arms. Flight time was increased to 35 minutes; up from the 23 minutes of its consumer counterpart. The X2 was initially released in two models; the X2D for military and government use and the X2E for first responders and civilian users. Both models were offered with two different camera configurations, designated Color and Color/Thermal. The Color/Thermal model features a Teledyne FLIR, FLIR Boson thermal camera with 8x digital zoom and a 12-megapixel color High dynami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
