i think its a no brainer that the rotors have to be taller than soldiers or it be chopping heads off.Here's that battlefield supply UAV again. The camera lens gives the optical illusion that this is a small drone, but it's actually quite substantial. Judging by the size of the payload compared to the two soldiers in the last image, the drone stands taller (skids to rotor hub) than the soldiers.
Chinese UAV/UCAV development
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by78
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I don't think so. There are quite a few drones whose rotors sit lower than adult height. You can avoid injury or death by (from the least to most preferable) ducking under, shutting off the rotors while the payload is being retrieved, or by simply dropping the payload on the ground for pickup and then fly away.
Fun fact, most helicopter blades are made from light weight material and are incapable of decapitating human beings.
PeoplesPoster
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I don’t think this is true, even small rc helicopters have enough power to decapitate a human.
lcloo
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He was being sacarstic.
none of that is as simple as just designing the rotors to be taller than the man. you are substituting one simple design for a bunch of complicated operations, big no no. shutting off rotors slow things down, dropping will limit the type and packaging of parcel, ducking will make moving heavy parcels difficult.
by78
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Use your imagination, man. Or maybe the UCAV can hover a few feet above ground while the payload is being retrieved so there's no danger of the blades smashing into heads. And no, it's not 'simple' to mount the rotors high. Depending on the weight class of the UAV and its intended uses, mounting the rotor high may not be practical or good design practice. For a small helicopter UAV stationed on frigates or used by forestry services or by power companies to inspect transmission wires, for example, a high-mounted rotor would increase cross-sectional drag and throw off the center of gravity, making the UAV unnecessarily hard to control and reducing its performance and range.
I don't have photos but recently China had an exercise in Tibet that used UAV for mine clearing, pretty interesting stuff if you ask me, similar to obstacle clearing with unmanned boats seen earlier.
Logistics and obstacle clearing seem to be the two realms in which China is really leveraging its advanced UAV applications even more so than direct combat. This I think is more revolutionary than UCAV's in the short term. imagine being able to resup an infantry company on the frontline directly like ubereats, without having to burden the whole distribution network on the ground, that in my mind is a big game changer especially for theatres like Taiwan.
Logistics and obstacle clearing seem to be the two realms in which China is really leveraging its advanced UAV applications even more so than direct combat. This I think is more revolutionary than UCAV's in the short term. imagine being able to resup an infantry company on the frontline directly like ubereats, without having to burden the whole distribution network on the ground, that in my mind is a big game changer especially for theatres like Taiwan.
Those are for the Army and here the PAF:
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