Tiny Drones Win Over Army Grunts; Big Bots? Not So Much

Tiny Drones Win Over Army Grunts; Big Bots? Not So Much
Tiny Drones Win Over Army Grunts; Big Bots? Not So Much

Tiny drones, no bigger than your palm, were the big stars of an Army experiment in Hawaii, participants told Breaking Defense. Larger ground robots, however, struggled in the jungle. Staff Sergeant James Roe told me he was “blown away” by the PD-100 Black Hornet, a commercially available mini-drone used in PACMAN-I (Pacific Manned-Unmanned Initiative, part of…