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Ukraine is going through ~200 quadrotor drones an hour in "Garage workshop miniature cruise missile" applications. Anything that has the potential to make dram
by mapt 3y ago
Ukraine is going through ~200 quadrotor drones an hour in "Garage workshop miniature cruise missile" applications. Anything that has the potential to make dramatically cheaper mass-produced weapons is in play now that we have almost-free precision guidance.
If you can get $2000 of cardboard, foam, and plumbing parts to launch a 50kg warhead at a target 100km away in ten minutes, you can do the same for $2,000,000 and 1000 targets; Long-range anti-air rockets are almost useless for this because they cost more than $2,000,000 per, and even short-range ones cost more than $100,000.
- Log_out_ 3y agoImagine fpv drone, it flies recording the input from a deterministic start point. Now you record the operator input. Not only can you replay that input, shielding a bird from em, you can correct in a simulation and repeat fire that on repeat.
- c_o_n_v_e_x 3y agoThis reminds me of this interview I watched 20 or 30 years ago. It was a guy (Canadian maybe?) who was developing a super cheap powered hang glider (for lack of better words) with machine guns on it. The idea was to make something so cheap, you can overwhelm fighter jets.
- numpad0 3y agoWouldn't a horde of that be prone to a preprogrammed airburst shell?
- thanksdrp 3y agoI remember that interview, the guy's name is Bob Diemert and his aircraft was the Defender. The NFB made a documentary: https://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2009/07/27/how-to-fighter-airplane-defender-bob-diemert/ https://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2009/07/27/how-to-fighter-airplane-... Here's an article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/famed-aviator-remembered-following-death-1.7087959 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/famed-aviator-rememb...
- Log_out_ 3y agoI'm still waiting for coilgun artillery to take off. No need for charges to fire, rail itself can be relatively unprecise, as long as the shell head can glide bomb the flight trajectory to target. Rest of the shell body could be a small distribution charge and some vacuum compressed peeble. Or just do away with traditional artillery altogether and electrically gun up small gun cotton glider drones, that circle above target areas until they receive a drop and kill order.