Those are almost certainly antennae on the bottom of that thing. Given how small they are, it’s either snooping cell phone traffic or wifi.
Or surveillance. They don’t need large drones to take pictures.
I would agree with you on that. Tracking locations of high cell phone chatter I suspect to a local situation.
I wonder how many microwave transmitters I can fit into a parabolic dish to send an amplified microwave beam strong enough to make it sneeze....
Looks like helicopter landing gear to me. They might double as some kind of antenna.
Aircraft is a hexrotor. Quadrotors are more common, lots of hobbyists are flying them. It is possible this one is a hobbyist’s.
I was thinking they were landing gear to protect the payload, which is probably a camera of some sort. If this thing is battery powered, wouldn’t most of the juice go to just keeping it aloft?
No, they're landing struts, like the legs on a regular helicopter.
It's about 4 ft. across so it really isn't that small.......
I dunno, they look like they are landing rails to set down on to me. Although, they could have antenna built into them.
Those are landing gear, folks. This is a HEXACOPTER- Look for YouTube video - anyone can buy one
That’s a “hex-copter” (there are also “quad-copters” and “octo-copters” ... the antenna looking things are landing gear, and there’s a camera in a gimbal mount between them.
The multi-rotor copters are remarkably stable, and remarkably powerful. Each rotor is independently driven by its own miniature motor, computer control allows steering and directional motion by varying the speed of the individual motors.
> Those are almost certainly antennae on the bottom of that thing. Given how small they are, it’s either snooping cell phone traffic or wifi.
Or maybe they’re just landing gear... lol
I think those are the landing gear.
I predict a new shooting competition call “sporting Drones” will soon commence. Hold muh beer.
Or landing gear. Antenae could be smaller, and mor e effective if Oriented vertically. There was ashootin’ war with Oakland Gangs. Probably just keeping an eye on things.