Welcome to another T-Rex Talk podcast episode. This is Isaac Botkin, and today we're talking about drones,

drone development, drone uses, and kind of drones for the future a little bit, but this isn't

going to be a super cutting edge podcast because I'm not, I'm not a drone developer. There's top secret

drone developers doing really cool stuff that we don't know about.

So my projected drone usages are probably not going to be all that futuristic compared to stuff that's already being done in top secret black Area 51 labs already.

But I'm also going to be somewhat sloppy with the term drone because it's an

extremely sloppy term. When we talk about drones, technically what we mean is unmanned aerial

vehicles. They may be fixed wing. They may be rotary wing. They may be quadcopters,

octocopters, they may be jet or rocket powered, but drone specifically means an unmanned aerial vehicle.

But in the eyes of the media, drone means a quadcopter.

And so oftentimes I see articles about new manned drones.

And what they mean is a quadrocopter that is big enough to carry a person.

And actually, most of those are octocopters.

But that's how the

media works. They don't really get caught up on things like words or correct definitions, even though

it's kind of literally their job. Now, quadrocopters are pretty new for some reasons that I'll get to in a

little bit, but drones, we've been using target drones in the U.S. military well, since World War II. And

there have been drones like the V1 buzz bomb that the Germans were launching against London

in World War II. So unmanned aerial vehicles, which is technically what drones are, have a pretty

rich history in military uses.

Then a lot of people using them for things like surveillance, signals, intelligence,

but in my lifetime, there's been an increased use of them actually being armed.

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