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.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 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