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The flight hours + HR costs. The key financial advantage of drones is that they don't need money to live after work, health insurance, or a pension plan. It's
by ethbr0 3y ago
The flight hours + HR costs.
The key financial advantage of drones is that they don't need money to live after work, health insurance, or a pension plan. It's expensive to ask people to risk their lives for work.
And specifically for forward deployment scenarios: they don't require human support infrastructure pushed forward, at great cost.
Even in austere military terms, it's logistically expensive to keep a human alive on a random atoll in the Pacific.
The aircraft:supportHumans ratio is a tyranny in that each of those supportHumans requires their own support.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>It's expensive to ask people to risk their lives for work. Unless you're in the Russian army.
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- ethbr0 3y agoThe Russians are paying good-for-Russia bonuses to attract recruits, as well as giving anyone who fights or builds for the military in Ukraine veteran status.
- smcl 3y agoThey're promising good bonuses for signing up. There's a lot of complaints about people not actually getting what they've been promised.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoBut will you survive to enjoy those beenfits?
- cabalamat 3y agoAlso you can build a drone AI and cheaply deploy it to 1000 drones. Whereas each human pilot must be expensively trained.