{"id":20774,"date":"2015-05-17T16:44:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T20:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=20774"},"modified":"2015-05-17T16:44:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T20:44:46","slug":"us-militarys-new-swarm-of-mini-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/05\/17\/us-militarys-new-swarm-of-mini-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military&#8217;s New Swarm of Mini-Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Defense News<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story\/defense\/international\/americas\/2015\/05\/17\/cicadas-us-militarys-new-swarm-mini-drones\/27494981\/\" target=\"_blank\">US Military&#8217;s New Swarm of Mini-Drones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWith no motor and only about 10 parts, the Cicada resembles a paper airplane with a circuit board.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That may not sound like much of a drone, but you have to read the article to find out what it can really do.  If you thought your idea of a conventional drone was a threat to your privacy, read what these things can do.  Low price is no small part of the threat.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you have to use your imagination to get it.  If you don&#8217;t have enough imagination, you can rest assured that criminal and the military element have more than enough imagination to make up for what you and I may lack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense News has the article US Military&#8217;s New Swarm of Mini-Drones. With no motor and only about 10 parts, the Cicada resembles a paper airplane with a circuit board. That may not sound like much of a drone, but you have to read the article to find out what it can really do. If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20775,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20774\/revisions\/20775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}