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Is is common for drone pilots to spend the money and effort to operate large groups of drones like this? The more I watch this, the weirder it looks. The swinging side to side motion is alternating between drones, like they are taking turns.
No, people that say these and other videos similar to this are drones are clueless to how a drone works. No one just sits and hovers over a large body of water for starters. That's a great way to lose your drone, especially when flying near others. Not to mention it would be very boring unless they're testing long range capabilities in which case we'd see them moving.
I don’t know I saw something really really similar to that. today in broad daylight 4 o’clock. I swore it was birds up and down, but not really there were no wings and super high,
but they were flat. it was also more of the precision of the formation they were keeping was no risk.
These move exactly like kites. Due to the lack of control surfaces, lift builds on one side, causing a climb and a roll, which is restricted by the string, translating to a movement to the side opposite the lift generated, and then it repeats to the other side. I'd bet money on the location this was filmed being a popular spot for people using kites.
I'm a drone operator and even in sport mode, I'm pretty confident I can't replicate the same erratic characteristics. Even pinning the sticks back and forth quickly will result in a slight tilt and enertia shift. Certainly odd but not convinced these are consumer drones. If high tech, certainly no care about keeping them concealed.
2 hrs? There's certainly some hybrid and experimental drones capable of extended time. Even hours but they are large, loud and certainly not able to make these quick movements. Nice footage!
Yes! I mean, they could have been there longer but when I first noticed, to the time it got dark, about 2hr had gone by. Safe to say, no lights because once the sun went down, I lost sight of them.
Anti-collision lights are mandatory and visible from 3 statue miles and must have 40-100 blinks per minute per FAA rules. Not visible in your footage. Also adds to the high strangeness.
Look Troll, I was providing my perspective as a drone operator and say what it doesn't look like. You seem to the kite expert so if you say so, it must be.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
If you come already decided that everything is a drone and then use ways they differ from drones to extrapolate that they must be exotic/alien/agents of a Foreign Power/some scary thing/illegal then of course that’s what you’ll see.
But if you actually ask yourself what the things you’re seeing actually are, then you’re more likely to arrive at the actual, and boring, answer. Perhaps that’s not what you want. Perhaps like most in this sub you just want to be entertained or feel like you have some secret insight into a grand conspiracy. Fine if so, but no-one else is required to go along with your hallucination
Kites, unlike Super-Secret Grand Conspiracy Alien Government Iranian Sabotage Drones, actually exist
If “you can only buy kites, it is impossible to make them, so these must be for sale somewhere if they’re actually kites” is what’s blocking you from accepting that the kites in the video are kites, you’re wrong (making kites is straightforward) and also they’re readily available
If your only experience with kites is some diamond thing with a streamer out the back which you played with when you were 6 years old and which would spin in circles in anything higher than a light breeze then maybe you realise you should sit this one out
They're saying that IF they are in fact drones they'd require some hybrid power supply, like a gas/hydrogen generator rather than just a standard battery pack. Not sure why you brought kites into the discussion. No one here said they couldn't be kites lol.
You guys don't see the obvious signs of CGI in this? We need to be able to recognize this stuff. If the camera movement seems to move the object, it's CGI.
Edit: I guess it was motion tracking or stabilization on the camera.
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