For better or worse, the drone marketplace is dominated these days by one brand. The Chinese-based company DJI has done such an amazing job designing drones of all sizes and levels that the company has become synonymous with drone technology.However, DJI has been facing some major hurdles with potential drone bans in the United States and now tariffs and restrictions are keeping its latest offerings out of the US market entirely. While these issues and concerns are being sorted out (who knows where they’ll eventually end up), the market is certainly primed for competitors, especially American-based companies, to step up.Based in Montana, the American drone company Skyfish has officially released its new enterprise drone called the Osprey to challenge DJI’s market dominance in this space. Let’s look at this enterprise offering, what it can do, and what we might expect to see from Skyfish (or other companies) in the future.Introducing the Skyfish OspreyIn marketing materials for the Osprey, Skyfish very directly acknowledges that the goal of this enterprise lens is to challenge DJI’s dominance in the enterprise space. The Osprey promises to be lightweight and compact, yet still pack a powerful punch in terms of flight time, radio range, and autonomous flying features. “The Osprey was originally designed as an American-made replacement for the DJI Matrice 30 or M300. But Osprey turned out to be an even better drone than the DJI equivalent.” — Skyfish CEO Dr. Orest Pilskalns. The Skyfish Osprey features a Sony-designed 61MP LR1 camera that is...
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