Scientists of the Omsk State Technical University have created an unmanned aircraft for the work in the extreme conditions of the Arctic region, head of the university’s Experimental Design Bureau Small Unmanned Vehicles Pavel Pogarsky told TASS on Tuesday.
Drones are most often associated with assassinations in remote regions
of Pakistan and Yemen but in Peru, unmanned aircraft are being used to
monitor crops and study ancient ruins.
Forget Reapers and
Predators -- the drones used here are hand-held contraptions that look
like they were assembled in a garage with gear from a hardware store.
They
are equipped with a microcomputer, a GPS tracker, a compass, cameras
and an altimeter, and can be easily programmed by using Google Maps to
fly autonomously and return to base with vital data.