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db0 to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

The future of warfare: A $400 drone killing a $2M tank

www.politico.eu

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The future of warfare: A $400 drone killing a $2M tank

www.politico.eu

db0 to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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Ukraine’s early adoption of ‘first-person view’ drones tips the scales against an enemy fighting a conventional war.
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    If only we could be sure that $400 drones will only ever be used to kill tanks, and never to kill neighborhoods …

    • db0OP
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      I’m waiting for the panic that will happen at the first political assassination using drones

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        Several years ago, before COVID, the Japanese government was on high alert because someone parked a drone on the roof of the Prime Minister’s office. Small traces of (harmless) radiation were detected on the drone and no one knows who put it there or why.

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          It’s entirely possible someone just flew it around near Fukushima, brought it to near the PM’s office, and then parked it on the roof as a political statement

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        https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/100000006042079/how-the-drone-attack-on-maduro-unfolded-in-venezuela.html

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        Im pretty sure I read a few years ago someone tried in like south america, I’ll have to look it up

        edit: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45073385

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      That would make HOA meetings rather ackward… and dangerous.

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        I wonder if the second amendment people will get behind drones. It isn’t like you are going to be able to defend your house when someone across a continent can set it on fire.

        Imagine that brave new world. People walking around with a personal protection drone following them. Schools needing to invest in Iron Dome type anti-drones drones.

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      You can. It takes a much bigger drone to kill an entire neighborhood.

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        Bigger drones, or just more drones.

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        Yeah for now. What happens when someone attaches a laser to one that can start fires?

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          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR7vwRC6SFE

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            Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

            https://www.piped.video/watch?v=QR7vwRC6SFE

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        1•2 years ago

        One gas main is all it takes

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