Millitary Drones to deliver numerous Goods in US for world's biggest e-retailer

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Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, is testing drones for the same-day package delivery, a service called Prime Air, as the company works to improve efficiency and speed in getting products to consumers. In the near future the army of small drones with orange boxed attached to them would fly over cities, buzzing of new delivery.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the 30-minute delivery with a new service Prime Air on the CBS show 60 minutes, and Amazon has since posted a video advertising the new service.

The CEO said the gadgets, called octocopters, can carry as much as five pounds within a 10-mile radius of an Amazon fulfillment center. Amazon may start using the drones, which can make a delivery within 30 minutes, within five years pending Federal Aviation Administration approval, Bezos said.

"I know this looks like science fiction, but it's not," Mr Bezos said in the interview. "It will work, and it will happen, and it’s gonna be a lot of fun," he added. "We can do half-hour delivery... and we can carry objects, we think, up to five pounds (2.3kg), which covers 86 percent of the items that we deliver," he said.

Amazon has been secretly testing its "octocopter" drones — named for their eight sets of rotors — from its headquarters in Seattle, Washington, for several months. The octocopters would collect smaller-sized packages in orange buckets, deliver them to customers' doors, then return to base.

Amazon claims that the new program of drone delivery is to be ready to launch in 2015, so long as the FAA's rules allow for them to enable air delivery. Currently, it is prohibited to use small drones like those Amazon plans to use without special permission. The main concerns are safety, as drones cannot avoid other aircrafts in the air.

In addition, some groups voice concerns that the privacy could be breached as these drones could be equipped with cameras. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved the use of drones for police and government agencies, issuing about 1,400 permits over the past several years.

Civilian air space is expected to be opened up to all kinds of drones in the US by 2015 and in Europe by 2016.