On 4/13/22, jim bell wrote:

https://petapixel.com/2022/04/11/ukraine-opens-russian-drone-finds-canon-dsl... Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has released a video in which a Ukrainian soldier disassembles a Russian military surveillance drone. The teardown revealed a remarkably rudimentary design that features a low-end Canon DSLR camera at its core.

Canon DSLRs sold worldwide and low cost, so unless you're the criminal US military industrial complex procurement and corrupt politician grift pork earmark war system, there's no reason not to use them if they'll do the job. US govt contractors would charge you at least $10k each, and that's for the cheap version that just shuck out the Canon boards and stuff them in a Raytheon box, proprietary knockoffs would cost you $25k. Libertarian prickly pear defense would buy sealed new in box gray market off OpenBazaar for a $200 donation, with 1yr of livestreaming as a thank you gift :)