Drones are incredibly useful and are in the air, but their launch can be difficult, especially in emergency or wind scenarios or when speed is an important factor.
But a group of researchers from Caltech University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have come up with an elegant and fun solution - a new drones launched from a launch cannon.
The team called the aircraft "Scud" (SQUID), an abbreviation for "drones for rapid investigation", the aircraft length of 27 centimeters, and weighs 530 grams, and contains four rotating arms loaded spring.
The researchers launch the drone from the modified baseball cannon, giving it an initial speed of about 56 kilometers per hour.
In a research paper, the team observed that the Scuds began to rotate about 200 milliseconds after launch and began to stabilize and fly in less than a second.
The launch of a ballistic drones is certainly faster, but Scud's great advantage is flexibility, as it can be launched from moving objects as shown in the video by firing from behind a pickup truck at 80 kilometers per hour.
This type of launch scenario contains all kinds of useful applications, and emergency responders and military units can launch drones to scan the area non-stop, and this type of aircraft is good for exploring space and during wars.