• @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      26 months ago

      It’s to do with how the drones operate: A big expensive drone might be fitted with say, a gun or a rocket? The idea being that you fly it out, shoot someone, bring it back and fly it out again.

      A suicide drone is much, MUCH cheaper, and consists of a normal drone with a bomb strapped to it. It doesn’t come back, it destroys itself in order to give you one cheap drone attack (which is good in areas where your drones are likely to be shot down regardless of if they’re a suicide model or not, for example trying to drone strike a densely populated and heavily defended city).

      • @laughterlaughter
        link
        English
        16 months ago

        So it’s like a guided missile. Thanks. Damn, that shit is terrifying.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          26 months ago

          Yah, dollar store guided missile. Sure it’s not as guided, but when you can easily afford to just throw 40 of them out right into anti-air defences because if even one slips through it will be monetarily worth it…

          The things are a fucking menace.