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With cheap drones appearing to be critical to the future of warfare, is there a chance that the US will develop a domestic drone industry that rivals China's, o
by echelon 3y ago
With cheap drones appearing to be critical to the future of warfare, is there a chance that the US will develop a domestic drone industry that rivals China's, or has that ship sailed?
- sschueller 3y agoMaybe we should stop killing each other instead of banning drones. Next thing will be assassinating people with their own phone by causing it to blow up next to their head. The tool isn't the problem, the problem is that "we" still think killing each other is some sort of solution.
- bandergirl 3y ago> Maybe we should stop killing each other instead of banning drones. Wishful thinking. Always have, always will. War is even “legal”, think about that, no repercussions for NATO countries.
- mewpmewp2 3y agoOkay and how do we stop killing each other?
- cgio 3y agoIt's simple, you stop first /s
- numpad0 3y agoAh, the "stop resisting" approach.
- thimp 3y agoBan anyone over the age of 60 from politics. It’s all senile old men trying to kill each other with younger people.
- master-lincoln 3y agoAdditionally ban all males from positions of power
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- pjc50 3y ago> Next thing will be assassinating people with their own phone by causing it to blow up next to their head I don't know if this was an intentional reference or not, but that has definitely already been done (with a rigged phone). Plus the widespread use of phone position data for targeting. > the problem is that "we" still think killing each other is some sort of solution The problem is that violence works against everything except more violence.
- lazide 3y agoEven then, violence works in that it decides a winner - one way or another. It’s not like Japan or Germany were going to wave a white flag just because someone finally convinced them they were wrong.
- ipsum2 3y agoThere's plenty of military drones companies, the US military has the budget for them. But now I'm wondering, who would win, 1,000 military drones or 1,000,000 consumer DJI ones?
- sofixa 3y ago"Quantity has a quality of its own". Consumer DJI Drones are useless in a fight (good only for reconnaissance or maybe crashing into military drones to disrupt them), but Russia is showing that drones can be made on the cheap (e.g. there was footage of a drone of theirs using a plastic soda bottle as the fuel reservoir) and still be disruptive.
- sverhagen 3y agoWhy are they useless? Could they not carry a payload, and swarm their way past defenses that aren't equipped for "volume"?
- usrusr 3y agoGetting signal through a hostile radio environment comes to mind. But as it stands now it looks like this might be a field were a hundred "macguyvers on typewriters" adapting consumer drones are more effective than a Shakespeare trapped in the bowels of the military industrial complex.
- lazide 3y agoEven basic consumer drones use frequency hopping and have relatively complex signal integrity logic - necessary even for using ‘free’ frequencies like 2.4 and 5.4 ghz in typical urban environments. And they’re pretty good, frankly.
- 15155 3y ago"Frequency hopping" does nothing when your adversary can blow out the entire 2.4 and 5.4GHz bands, even before getting into sophisticated radio-specific attacks. Urban radio environments are crowded, not actively hostile.
- Megustatrw 3y agoBuilding drones is very easy from a base requirement point of view. And the components are easy to buy as most if not all have plenty of other use cases.