The document discusses the Black Hornet Nano, a small military drone used for reconnaissance. It is only 10x2.5 cm and weighs just over half an ounce, but has a range of over 1 km and endurance of up to 25 minutes. It provides troops with situational awareness by flying into enemy territory to take video and photos. The Black Hornet PD-100 is a commercially available personal reconnaissance system that provides intelligence and surveillance capabilities. It has autonomous flight abilities and can fly preplanned routes with its integrated GPS.

1. DRONE “The Future
Technology”

2. BLACK HORNET PD-100 PRS

3. Black Hornet Nano
The Black Hornet Nano is a
military micro unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) developed
by Prox Dynamics AS of
Norway, and in use by the
Norwegian and British Army.
The unit measures around 10 ×
2.5 cm (4 × 1 in) and provides
troops on the ground with local
situational awareness. They are
small enough to fit in one hand
and weigh just over half an
ounce (16 g, including
batteries).

4. PD-100 PRS
 The PD-100 is the first airborne and commercially available
Personal Reconnaissance System. It provides end users with a
highly mobile sensor system providing an immediate
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance capability.

6. Black Hornet 2 nano sensors
 The Black Hornet 2 nano sensors are inherently safe and pose virtually no
risk to other air vehicles or personnel, allowing the system to be operated
almost anywhere at any time without prior airspace coordination. The
Black Hornet’s small size and electric motors makes it virtually inaudible
and invisible beyond short distances.
Rotor span 120 mm
 Mass 18 g including cameras
 Maximum speed 5 m/s
 Endurance up to 25 minutes
 Digital data link beyond 1600 m line-of-sight
 GPS navigation or visual navigation through video
 Autopilot with autonomous and directed modes
 Hover & Stare, preplanned routes
 Steerable EO cameras (pan/yaw and tilt)
 Live video and snapshot images

7. Missions
 Missions Search and rescue
 Reconnaissance in confined areas
 Look behind, between and below obstacles
 Birds eye view for situational awareness
 Object identification
 Proximity surveillance
 Crowd control
 Inspect nuclear installations
 Check chemical plants after incidents and accidents

8. Benefits
 Transportable – complete system fits inside a pocket
 Ready to fly – airborne within one minute
 Fly it anywhere – in confined areas and outdoors
 Stealth – small and inaudible
 Easy to operate – requires little training and no pilot experience
 Safe – represents no risks to other aircraft or personell
 Affordable – reusable or expendable

9. However on this small scale
everything becomes very difficult,
and integrating a GPS and the
required software and control
systems for autonomous flight, and
reaching mission times of 15/20
minutes is an entirely different story
and surely requires some serious
financial investments for
technological research, as the PD-
100 obviously contains state of the
art specialized components and
software that are simply not
available on the consumer market
at this time.

10. Operation
The aircraft are being used by soldiers from the UK's
Brigade Reconnaissance Force at Camp Bastion in
Afghanistan. Operation Herrick personnel in Afghanistan
deploy the Black Hornet from the front line to fly into
enemy territory to take video and still images before
returning to the operator.
Designed to blend in with the muddy grey walls in
Afghanistan, and capable of flying for 20 minutes on quiet
electric motors, it has been used to look around corners or
over walls and other obstacles to identify any hidden
dangers and enemy positions. The Black Hornet is
connected to the operator with a digital data-link and GPS.
Images are displayed on a small handheld terminal, which
can be used by the operator to control the UAV. The Black
Hornet is launched from a small box that can be strapped
to a utility belt, which also stores transmitted data so a
captured drone won't reveal anything it recorded.
Operators can steer the UAV or set waypoints for it to fly
itself.

12. The little military drone only
weights 16 grams. Mission
durations of 15/20 minutes
are mentioned in the video,
which is outstanding for such
a small sized machine. The
PD-100 can reach a speed of
22mph (35,4 Km/h).
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13. features
 Plenty of features actually, the main one being that the PD-100 is a full
featured mini UAV, equipped with GPS and capable of autonomous flights.
As the creator of the Black Hornet puts it, “it acts as a pair of flying
binoculars”, and these binoculars have an at least 1Km range as shown by
the test flight in the movie.
 This kind of range, for both radio and video links specifications, is
unthinkable for a mini Walkera or Hubsan without significant
modifications. Still, given enough hacking a skilled enthusiast could likely
reach this range, as far as the radio link and video link are concerned. With
civilian, consumer technology this could probably require a significantly
bulky setup for the ground station, that should include devices such as
antenna trackers, signal boosters and such.

14. Develop by
 The Black Hornet PD-100 was developed by Prox Dynamics, a firm founded
by Petter Murren in 2007, whose mission is as follows (from the company
website):
 “Prox Dynamics’ mission is to develop, produce and sell the world’s
smallest unmanned aircraft systems. We will create new innovative
solutions based on modern micro electronics, new sensor technology,
creative aerodynamics and efficient low cost production techniques. We
will work closely with leading partners and customers to deliver cost
optimal and functional products.”