7 INCREDIBLE New Drones (2022)

Let's take a look at some of the most amazing drones of 2022!

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7. Astria

6. M-SAM

5. MAMBA

4. Ventus

Ion Propelled Craft

3. Createk Engineering Lab

2. ScanDrone

1. Aerial Dragon

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[Official-DRAGON-Lab]

Thank you very much for introducing my work!

[pepperoni-prepper]

when i was a tech apprentice at a power station, i used to make ion thrust motors for fun with an old mega 5kv generator.
the application is a lot more useful in space as a propulsion system/ drag reduction, rather than under the influence of gravity.

[Balthorium]

For once I wasn’t disappointed by a title. Amazing.

[tonywilson]

I'm an Australian aerospace engineer who was educated in America. Although I love the work people are doing in areas like drones we still need to see them and a lot of other tech as only part of the solutions humanity needs and in some cases they're solutions to problems that don't exist.

There is one field I'm 99.99% certain drones are about to become huge.

Sorry for the long answer but I think you'll like where I am going with this.

So you know where I'm coming from. I've had a series of fairly blunt lessons handed to me over the last 20 years. Before that I was doing a lot of industrial control systems, automation and robotics for manufacturing. In 2002 I met Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17). Very nice guy and he mentioned Helium-3. At that time all my avenues in aerospace were blocked so I went off to the Australian mining sector. I thought my background mixed with some practical mining experience might open some doors in the "lunar mining" field.

1 - It never opened a single door because that industry is still years away. Even to this day as far as I know I am the only aerospace engineer to have ever helped construct a remote mine or work on an operational remote mine.
2 - I got some blunt lessons in remote site REALITY particularly in site infrastructure and maintenance. When I mean remote some of our mines are in places where the nearest people (for any reason) are 100s of km and hours of travel away. Almost anything you need on site takes a week of road travel and anything you're desperate for is maybe 1 day away on a plane.
3 - The bluntest of lessons I got was in basic infrastructure. Modern society has become so accustomed to basic services we've forgotten its there. Nobody turns on a light and wonders about the power grid. Nobody flushes the toilet and wonders about where it goes or where the fresh water refilling the cistern comes from.

I expect that infrastructure is about to become the biggest subject in the world. Forget Kanye West, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin when 1.5 billion westerners can't watch football because the power is out or can't flush the toilet because there's no water THAT WILL CHANGE THINGS.

The problem is there's so much neglect it will take decades to fix. That's where drones are about to be huge - INSPECTIONS. Pipelines, power lines, bridges and other stuff needs to be regularly inspected because so much of it is old an poorly maintained. In 2014 60 minutes America said that America has OVER 30, 000 bridges in need of repair or replacement and they aren't alone. There was the Ponte Morandi bridge collapse in Genoa, Italy in 2018 that happened through neglect.

That's just bridges. Where do you think we're at with Power and Water infrastructure? Don't forget there's 2 water systems clean and waste. Then there's things like gas infrastructure as well as rail, road, airports and ports.

In many cases nobody knows what needs repair or what needs replacing. As a result nobody knows where to start because there's so much to do. Because there's resource limits with people, materials and money, *SMART WELL INFORMED DECISIONS* aren't a buzz phrase its a matter of necessity. That's where drones are about to become incredibly important - inspections.

[KraussEMUS]

At about 2:34 minutes into the video the UT craft is shown. The nicer picture of it is just a computer image/drawing. Just a minor correction about the craft. Due to the type of ducted fan that propels it (a 70mm Ducted fan), it requires roughly 2, 500 to 3, 500 watts, to the best of my knowledge. The ducted fan of that type is normally used for model jet aircraft or flying ducted "rockets". Due to the physics of that type of propulsion it cannot be made anywhere near as quiet as a quadcopter. It also requires massive batteries to run the fan, so the ion propulsion can't be adding a large percentage of lift to the machine. I would think since the power supply necessarily weighs vastly more than the 2- or 3-layer structure of Pribanics craft, that the ionic portion is actually somewhat of a hinderance to the flight of the ducted fan part. The earlier lightweight craft that I have patented specifically for lifting its power supply with ions, is really ion propelled. There are about 40 videos of it on my YT channel. It is not just an ion lifter with a lightweight power supply though, because it requires both a particular build and novel power supply to fly with onboard power utilizing ion thrust. One more detail, the thrust to weight ratio isn't too bad at around 1.1 or 1.2 to 1. The thrust per area is lower than for quadcopters though. The earlier ion propelled craft has caried 2 miniature propellant tanks, for use in a vacuum, and its power supply. On an earlier flight it carried a small 1g video camera and video transmitter. There is a picture and video of those flights on the YT channel and Electron Air LLC website.
Thanks to Tech Planet for the awesome videos!!

[OwnGrid]

Hype of future batteries has been a long time coming

[tazanteflight]

IMO you shouldnt mention, "battery technology will be better tomorrow, so dont worry about it" We have been hearing that for decades. Magic batteries on the horizon!!! We have been hearing that for decades. Cool video!

[williamburroughs]

This is radical. These guys have come up with things that I haven't even thought of. It's really cool.

[futbolita]

that last one and the ion propulsion one seem like the most exciting ones

[myrandacollins]

draganfly is undoubtedly the best drone company!
It is providing support in ukraine by supplying ukrainian people with medicines, insulin and much more.
with this it is increasing its visibility and brand awareness.
has an experienced team and unique technology, currently very underestimated based on its potential!

[bradleybranagan]

Very cool thanks for sharing that with us. Sounds like sounds like drones are getting so sophisticated only really need better batteries

[sofilove...]

Human brain doing better sometimes than expectation...

Ion based drones are the future, but I think that it must be also enriched with magnetic field tech to get max efficiency.

[andyman]

you keep droning on about these machines!

[pangrac]

Wow, each one is beter than another. 👍

[fzred]

Ionic propulsion is far more advanced than what is demonstrated in this video. Linda Moulton-Howe, the journalist who investigated then published a couple books about unexplained livestock mutilations received video from an eyewitness in California, who captured a large and unusual object hovering in place near his house. It had odd symbols and some recognizable print on it that she was able to track down.
It turned out to be a project sponsored by the government to design and test an aircraft using ionic propulsion. It was similar to the one in this video in that it was built to be very lightweight, but carry no payload. The craft was very large, especially compared to the one seen here. It would have been too large to fit in a common residential two-car garage.
I'm convinced the future of flight, including long distance space travel, does not include the use of liquid fuel, solid propellants, or any kind of consumable material that must be replaced periodically. Ionic, magnetic, whatever the solution is, it will have to be a limitless resource that has almost no labor intensive human involvement.

[espy]

That kinda felt like an early R&D video for Cyberdyne right before they created Skynet.

[TheMichaelBeck]

I'm waiting for a drone with a sniper rifle. Only a matter of time. From an American Army veteran, Slava Ukraini!

[samsen]

As long as legislative bodies s.a. FAA do not unfairly interfere, drones are among the most amazing inversions of the 20th century and are hear to serve us at best, like never before.

[stickplayer]

That last drone will make Skynet's job much easier.