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unusual facts about drones


Trances/Drones

The liner notes describe this piece as an “acoustic room resonance derived from delayed feedback.”


868th Tactical Missile Training Squadron

During preparations to fire drones into Iraqi air defences in 1990-91, the group was utilised to assist in the launch of BGM-74s and Navy ADM-141 TALDs from King Khalid and Ar'ar into Iraq.

Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix

He gives Ben a brand-new form to use: Way Big, a skyscraper-sized alien modeled after Ultraman, who easily repels Vilgax's army of drones and angrily tosses the villain into space.

Bruce Brubaker

Drones CD, with Nadia Sirota, viola, Pekka Kuusisto, violin, Nico Muhly, piano, Bedroom Community, 2012

Chanting the Light of Foresight

"Song Announcing Dawn's Combat" depicts foster brothers and main character adversaries Cúchulainn and Ferdia and uses 7/8 rhythms, pulsing drones, and Hindustani scales to refer to the Bhagavad Gita.

Damadola airstrike

The attack was carried out by four CIA-operated unmanned Predator drones which launched four Hellfire missiles at a mud-walled compound, destroying three houses several hundred yards apart.

Ice in the Bedroom

It features several Wodehouse characters from earlier books, including Drones Freddie Widgeon and Oofy Prosser, and the trio of criminals, "Chimp" Twist and "Soapy" and "Dolly" Molloy.

Live in Spaceland

Spaceland Presents - The Drones In Spaceland November 15, 2006 is the first live album from The Drones, released in February 2007.

PLAGSD UAV

The UAV Technology Center (Wu-Ren-Ji Ji-Shu Zhong-Xin, 无人机技术中心) of the People's Liberation Army Air Defense Academy (PLAADA) of People's Liberation Army General Staff Department (PLAGSD) has developed several UAVs/drones for the People's Liberation Army (PLA), mostly for training of the air defense crew.

Precision guided firearm

The precision guided firearm integrates technology commonly found in drones, tanks, jet fighters, smartphones and microprocessors, into the conventional system.

Radioplane BTT

The Radioplane BTT, known as RP-71 by the company, was a family of target drones produced by the Radioplane Company, and later Northrop.

Shamsi Airfield

In February 2009, The Times (London) claimed that it had obtained Google Earth images from 2006 that showed Predator drones parked outside a hangar at the end of the runway at Shamsi.

Sitar

Psychedelic music bands often used new recording techniques and effects and drew on non-Western sources such as the ragas and drones of Indian music.

SkyJack

The only security currently in the Parrot drones prevents a second pilot from taking over, however SkyJack uses Aircrack-ng to perform a "deauthentication attack" against the pilot, exploiting a mechanism in wireless security.

Star lifting

In Lexx, the Mantrid Drones eventually became capable of star lifting simply by using their combined gravity to draw material away.

Starhyke

The show begins in the year 3034 when humans have become emotionless drones bent on expansion by destroying any alien species they encounter.

Uncle Fred in the Springtime

Horace, having fallen out with his cousin Ricky Gilpin over Gilpin's fiancee Polly Pott, daughter of Mustard, lands Pongo even further in the soup by being dressed as a Zulu rather than a Boy Scout during a round of the Clothes Stakes, run by Pott at the Drones.

Vertical Force

These drones emit a signal (an Electromagnetic pulse, perhaps?) that renders all Earth starfighters useless.

Zero to Infinity

Theo Travis − Organ, Flute, Keyboards, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Theremin, Electronics, Drones, Loop


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