Luckey: Anduril Ghost Drone Is Completely Inaudible at 100 Meters
Palmer Luckey · Palmer Luckey: Meet the Real-Life Tony Stark · Joe Lonsdale · Jul 5, 2021 · at 36:40
Palmer Luckey describes the acoustic and visual stealth profile of Anduril's Ghost drone to Joe Lonsdale.
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“At a hundred meters, it is inaudible to the human ear. And because it's a helicopter, it's very, very skinny and very, very short. And we stack everything all in a line. When you look at it dead on, it's like this big, like this is the front of the thing. So try looking at a square and it's like, you know, three inches tall, three inches wide, a hundred meters away. Basically invisible. And when you get a few hundred meters, like let's say 300 meters, you are invisible.”
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