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DALLAS (NewsNation) — As students return to classrooms nationwide, a Texas institution is aiming to revolutionize schoolhouse information with high-tech drones susceptible of responding to emergencies successful seconds.
NewsNation got an exclusive look wrong Campus Guardian Angels, which said its drones, flown by immoderate of the world's top-ranked pilots, tin scope speeds of 100 mph.
Drones bargain clip for reinforcement
When an active shooter alarm is triggered, a commandant uploads the school's integer representation and issues a formation plan. Pilots past motorboat the drones, which CGA said tin scope immoderate spot connected field successful seconds.
"We're trying to bargain the clip that it takes for a quality to get there," said Bill King, a retired Navy SEAL and CGA's co-founder and main tactical officer. "No substance wherever I find the assailant, I privation to person a container that tin scope him wrong 15 seconds."
CGA's extremity is to respond to an alarm wrong 5 seconds, find the shooter successful 15 seconds, and neutralize the menace successful 60 seconds.
3 Florida schoolhouse districts utilizing aviator program
Three schoolhouse districts successful Florida are implementing a aviator programme this year, with respective Texas schools besides nether consideration. Demonstrations person been held successful Colorado and Utah.
The drones usage non-lethal rounds, but successful an emergency, the craft itself tin disable an attacker, according to the company.
"It's hard to enactment a terms connected the bid of caput that we're creating here, and it's intolerable to enactment a terms connected somebody's life," King said.
