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>and strike a hardened target !!! That's the point! There are a hell of a lot of "unhardened" targets and using a full scale aircraft as a drone is missing th
by vba616 4y ago
>and strike a hardened target
!!!
That's the point! There are a hell of a lot of "unhardened" targets and using a full scale aircraft as a drone is missing the point about cost. I mean, there's not just the news from Ukraine, but also this:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/us/power-outage-moore-county-investigation-thursday/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/us/power-outage-moore-county-...
...and it looks like a classic case of "disruptive technology" syndrome, where the incumbents dismiss the upstart as inadequate for their sophisticated customers - justifiably as far as it goes - until all of a sudden the tsunami arrives because the new tech has been iterating until it can address the high end.
I read the original book defining the phenomenon in my university library around the time it came out, and it's interesting how describing the problem manifestly hasn't created a solution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma