Spy Collection Highlights - Meet the Insectothopter (CIA's first dragon-fly drone)
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- It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's the Insectothopter! This bug-carrying bug was the CIA's first insect-size unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This model of CIA's original 1976 Insectothopter - a dragonfly-shaped drone that carried a microphone. It was too small to be remotely controlled & there was no surveillance equipment tiny enough for it to carry. Today, intelligence agencies use similar devices that are fully controllable and can carry out surveillance. And they’re even smaller!
Join author, historian, and founding SPY board member H. Keith Melton as he highlights this rare spy gadget and underscores the critical role of intelligence on the world stage. Many of these objects have never been seen by the public...until now.
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Unfortunately almost none of them are "operational", but yes they exist.
Never forget the “Heart Attack Gun”
Hey milton, i know where a couple original ones are,
One flew over my patio two years ago. Very similar to the one shown here. This seems to be saying that they weren’t in use. I beg to differ.
The design is too impractical and dated(70's), they probably have much better ones by now.
Did privacy ever exist?!?!?
Nope
No. I remember when my family's phones were tapped back in the 70's when my Cold War defector father wanted to become a citizen. The technology was clunky but it got the job done.
Yes, back when citizens shot tyrants
Credit goes to American scientist Michel Adkins
I can't remember for the life of me but wasn't there cases of using real dragon fly bodies & insects, suckling out their blood & organs & using that as a chassis to build from? They've also done this with birds if I remember correctly.
Cant even imagine what theyre up to in 2024😂😂
With advances in solar cell technology, perhaps they will soon be autonomously landing in trees and recharging with sunshine,
or
drones will be placing mini solar panels in trees so Insectothopters can use them as recharging stations.
Was thinking about this but all of them would be useless once the new lasers drop to be able to register and attack anything based on ai in less than a second is something makes a lot of current military tech useless
We cannot simply back-engineer a "libellula" or "dragonfly" fying pattern. That organism is way too complex for us to simply build a robot to do the same thing. We can create similar, although much simplier machines, then call'em what you will - however the dragonfly's flight is still that ..."perfect flight motion" that eludes us, and will continue to do so for decades, probably centuries. It's not that easy as someone may think to simply observe and copy ("just like that"! ) - an organism that had 100ds of millions of years to develop its absolutely unique flight, propelled by the merciless game of natural selection into what it is today - i.e: a "PERFECT FLIGHT" - approximately 35-55% more efficient than the flight of ALL OTHER LIVING (flying) ORGANISMS. There is only one organism that can flap its wings with a similar effcience, and that is the famous HUMMINGBIRD. However a hummingbird is not a predator like the dragonfly, that was so good in adapting its flight to achieve a stunning 80% & more success rate, while hunting.
We can replicate it perfectly, just not at that scale. Living organisms are not bound by mechanical limitations, after all. We can't truly reinvent anything organic, to scale, as a mechanical doppelganger.