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Related: About this forumPolice in This City Are About to Start Using Russian Hoverbikes
Dubai police are ushering in the Star Wars era with the unveiling of quadcopter-style hoverbikes to its fleet.
The police force of the Gulf emirate announced at the Gitex Technology Week conference that theyll soon have officers fighting crime from the sky on electric hoverbikes capable of speeds of up to 43 miles (75 kilometres) per hour.
The Scorpion hoverbike, exhibited at the biggest technology expo in the gulf region and built by a Russian company called Hoversurf, has been likened to a ridable drone, and is capable of flying with or without a pilot. Though the bike wont fly higher than 20 feet, the Dubai police say that the hoverbike will be deployed as a first-responder vehicle to get into hard-to-reach places where larger vehicles cant go, as per Ride Apart.
http://fortune.com/2017/10/18/police-dubai-hoverbikes/
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)it only has enough power to fly for a minute or two.
HAB911
(8,914 posts)appal_jack
(3,813 posts)Transportation and weaponry, all in one...
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