i cant wait until actual war machine countries start producing the drone swarm en masse. (this is sarcasm)
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Haven't gotten to do one of these for a while...
If you post that every time Russia loses an aircraft to Ukraine, Riker is going to be out of breath.
Slava Ukraini.
I'm just waiting for someone to use one of these for an assassination attempt in a western country. I'm honestly surprised it hasn't happened yet considering Ukraine has shown how effective they are.
Imagine if that guy who tried to shoot trump, actually used a drone. I don't know how these things work, but I assume they have more than 1 missile per drone. So then imagine he just opened fire on a large scale crowd.
And because it's a drone, he could be like 2 miles away. With the right escape plan, he could have been in Mexico long before anyone ever traced it back to him.
From Mexico, he could move pretty much anywhere with an alias.
He could have committed a large scale terrorist attack, AND gotten away with it. At least for a while. I mean, even Bin Laden EVENTUALLY was found.
That's not really how they use these drones, or how you would use a drone to assassinate someone. For the case of Trump you'd use a FPV drone that weights maybe 750 grams and can lift an extra 400gramms of whatever payload. And then you just kamikaze it into the target. It's pretty easy and cheap. A drone like that if you build it yourself is maybe 250 bucks on the low end and maybe 400 for a long range drone. These things are fast as fuck and you can be a good km away from the target. If you are even a mediocre pilot it's pretty hard to miss. I don't know shit about explosives, and how you would make it go boom, but just flying a 500g drone into someone's face at 100kmh surely sends a message.
If you are even a mediocre pilot it's pretty hard to miss.
Ever fly fpv?
"Mediocre" can be a relative term. I would call myself a "mediocre" runner, because I run a handful of times a week and can beat most people on a 3000m, but am eons away from the pros. A "mediocre" fpv pilot can be someone who flies regularly and who most people would look at and consider "really good", but who is still far from being a pro.
The only winners in this war have been the Chinese drone part makers on Alibaba and the intermediaries in the Middle East/Central Asia buying those parts and reselling them to Ukraine/Russia.