![]() ![]() While this biologically-inspired mechanical drone is fascinating, it faces many practical challenges for covert missions including the ability to carry enough battery power to fly more than a few minutes while carrying its camera and other sensors, and being loud enough that it would likely draw attention. Built by AeroVironment, it was demonstrated in 2011 as a proof-of-concept for very small drones using wing-flapping for flight control and propulsion. DARPA is known for funding research into advanced topics that may–or may not–wind up being useful for the military or civilians, such as the ARPA-net that evolved into the internet, and the DARPA Grand Challenge that led to Google’s self-driving car.Īctual research into bird-like drones includes a DARPA-funded hummingbird drone called the Hummingbird Nano UAV. Each of these has a basis in recent and ongoing engineering research, mostly funded by the Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency (DARPA) for the Pentagon, but do not yet perform at anything like the level necessary to be used as they are in the film. ![]() You can see in the film’s trailer several of the more futuristic technologies: a small bird-like drone an even smaller insect-like drone and advanced face-recognition technologies. ![]() That is equal to an array of 368 5-megapixel smartphone cameras, allowing an incredible digital zoom while collecting imagery over a large geographic area. The actual resolution of those advanced surveillance cameras is classified, but we know that Reaper drones carry the DARPA funded ARGUS-IS and Gorgon Stare systems, which capture 1.8 gigapixel images at 12 frames per second. Much of the drone imagery depicted in the film, the footage we see collected by drone cameras, appears realistic. The film depicts these operators using touch screens, which are not available in the older ground control stations depicted, but are available in the recently updated ground control stations that include multiple screens and joysticks used for videogames. drone pilot, played by Aaron Paul, is stationed at Creech Air Force Base outside of Las Vegas. These drones are remotely operated by pilots and sensor operators who can be thousands of miles from where the drones are flying. Of course, the armed General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drone technologies have been around for more than a decade, and are depicted with a great deal of accuracy in the film. drone strike in Kenya is also an interesting question of realism, for another review. The accuracy of film’s depiction of the military chain-of-command and political control over this fictional joint U.K.-U.S. The narrative of the film begins with an attempt to capture terrorist suspects in Kenya, but evolves into a tense drama over whether to launch a drone strike in order to avert a terror plot, and the morally challenging questions of proportionality given the risk to civilians in the area of the strike. It was written by Guy Hibbert and directed by Gavin Hood, who also directed Ender’s Game. Most of the technologies employed in the film narrative have some basis in reality, though many are still in very early stages, or proof-of-concept, and remain far from the reliable and useful technologies depicted in the film.ĮYE IN THE SKY is a contemporary military drama starring Helen Mirren and the late Alan Rickman, in his last on-screen appearance, in the respective roles of a United Kingdom colonel and general. I have been asked by Science & Film to review the realism of EYE IN THE SKY in terms of the new technologies we see deployed in the film. Peter Asaro on Drone Technology in Eye in the Sky ![]()
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