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Why Drone Investments Fail Outside Real-World Operating Environments

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Drones fail outside the environment they were designed in and no one talks about it… In recent years, drones have been deployed across environments that share little beyond the fact that they involve flight. Dense urban airspace in Israel, frozen battlefields in Ukraine, humid agricultural regions in Southeast Asia, tightly regulated skies over Northern Europe, […]