• @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      There’s nothing unusual about carboard drones. Ukraine uses them aswell. Corvo drones for example.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      You can impregnate cardboard to make it somewhat waterproof, so I’d guess rain is not an issue.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      I was wondering about the feasibility of a dumb transport done (plane style) with a small 2 stroke engine carrying a bunch (dozen?) of guided quadcopter drones to a cluster of targets deep in Russia.

      I feel like you could make the transporter for less than $500. Cheap enough to send them up as dummies to overwhelm air defenses.

      I’m sure the pentagon has already investigated this for them though.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        There would be an issue communicating with them from that range. Maybe you could have a repeater on the mother ship? Anyway, I think right now they’re using all the quadcopters they can on the front lines.

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          21 year ago

          I was imagining each quadcopter being autonomous (gps module).

          I suspect gps is easily jammed at the front but not so easily jammed over a large territory. But I don’t actually know anything about any of this, it’s total armchair speculation

  • @iforgotmyinstance
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    61 year ago

    That’s cute they built it like a little model airplane.

    As if there’s a little pilot to worry about. No wonder the reds are getting routed so easily.

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        11 year ago

        I just want to note that of all the fansplanation Star Wars spawned, the cope for that being “fast” was the biggest.

        • @SpaceNoodle
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          It’s still impressive how much was built out of a random pile of space jargon.