BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Police Department unveiled a new drone Tuesday that is a great deal larger than any of the other 30 drones in its arsenal.
The department says it’s called the Edge Autonomy Stalker VXE30. It has a 16-foot wingspan and is able to fly up to 400 feet, the maximum height the Federal Aviation Administration currently allows for the aircraft.
“Designed by Lockheed Martin, the same people who do space shuttles and stuff, so very much a great piece of equipment. (We’re the) First department in the entire country to have this. Some of the federal agencies have it right now, Secret Service,” Baton Rouge Police Chief TJ Morse said…