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Countdown until its made into a weapon.
by christkv 3y ago
Countdown until its made into a weapon.
- JimtheCoder 3y agoI was thinking more in the direction of a toy for kids aged 8-15.
- scrps 3y agoThose better be some rich kids. 10 year old me would have jump at the chance to tinker with a functional drone like that.
- JimtheCoder 3y agoIt would have to be targeted to the kids with workaholic parents who neglect to spend time with their children, and thus need to spend big to demonstrate that they do, in fact, love their offspring. The children in question would use the toy for 3 or 4 weeks, get bored of it, and move on. We all know these people...
- RobotToaster 3y agoThose things aren't mutually exclusive.
- civilitty 3y agoScale up the rotors, put a gun on it, and bam, fully autonomous mobile artillery!
- christkv 3y agoAdd an explosive and it will pursue you. First flying and when you try to hide in a bunker it transforms and rolls on in after you.
- stronglikedan 3y agoScale the whole thing down to the size of a cockroach, and put a poison tip dart on it!
- scotty79 3y agoI really hope development goes in this direction. Infantry should be obsoleted as soon as possible.
- civilitty 3y agoThat way all us civilian Zam Wesell wannabes can have a go at it too!
- barbariangrunge 3y agoInfantry soon being obsolete is a way of saying that people will no longer be able defend themselves from near-future weapons
- kspacewalk2 3y agoExcept with drones of their own.
- King-Aaron 3y agoYep, get rid of the middle man and go straight to autonomous drones killing civilians instead
- melling 3y agoDrones are the future of warfare so you are a little late to complain about drones being used for warfare. The race is well under way. “…used by both Russia and Ukraine for surveillance and for delivering bombs, goes for around US $2,000. You can get 55,000 of them for the price of a single F-35” https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/drone-warfare-ukraine-2660279031 https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/drone-warfare-ukraine-26602790...
- jylam 3y ago"Drones are the future of warfare so you are a little late to complain about drones being used for warfare. The race is well under way" So it's not the future of warfare then by your own words, that's the present situation. What are you complaining about ?
- fivre 3y agohttps://thenewpress.com/books/theory-of-drone https://thenewpress.com/books/theory-of-drone is a neat read from the (not that much) earlier period where drone warfare was asymmetric, trying to contextualize it in the broader history of warfare.