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Kalashnikov Rifle Changed the World. Now There’s a Kalashnikov Kamikaze Drone
- luckylion 8y agonon-paywall-link: https://outline.com/VN2pP6 https://outline.com/VN2pP6
- devoply 8y agoSuicide drones, nice, what spin! It's a cruise missile drone as championed by the US. A cheap cruise missile drone, but a cruise missile drone nonetheless. Is this a good thing? Probably not. As I can see certain Western governments giving them to "freedom fighters" to fight dictators not sympathetic to their agenda and the like. But that's the way the cookie crumbles.
- tyingq 8y ago"as championed by the US." It has 6 pounds of explosive vs a tomahawk at 1,000 lbs. I would guess the use cases aren't very similar.
- 0_gravitas 8y agoWell, if we designate the use case as "blow something/someone up", that's similar enough I would think. In fact, dont see how the use case of 1000lbs of explosive would be any more constructive.
- tyingq 8y agoWho said either was constructive?
- AtlasBarfed 8y agoDrones will be the key to guerrilla resistance of current armies. Until they deploy swarms themselves. I also never understood why guerillas never deployed ballon-lofted nets to counter air power.