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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Diy hobby drone! I wonder if it would fall apart in the rain?

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] FuzzChef@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She'll make .5 past lightspeed.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's still impressive how much was built out of a random pile of space jargon.

[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 5 points 1 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.

[–] FuzzChef@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The image fails to load for me, any mirror?