Fire-Breathing Rotor Drone!

Fire-Breathing Rotor Drone!

This multirotor starts fires, but for a great reason. Researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, are working on a project called the Unmanned Aerial System for Firefighting. It uses a multirotor to deliberately drop fireballs to ignite grasslands under relatively controlled circumstances as a preemptive measure to neutralize flammable areas and make it more difficult for wildfires to spread. Check out the video clip below!

Updated: November 5, 2015 — 7:33 pm

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