Comment on Anon doesn't like the new meta

echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You aren’t looking at the same shit. There are extremely high tech drones that are huge and designed for long term use. These aren’t those. These are made as cheaply as they possibly can with one single goal: get this explosive to it’s destination. They are single flight devices.

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• bi_tux@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  kamicaze drones are pretty cheap

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  • el_bhm@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Analog fpv drone is at least €150 when produced on a mass scale. Parts alone.

    This is nowhere near 35 bucks cheap.

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    • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But those FPV drones have to be reusable. A kamikaze drone only needs to last long enough to get to the target. Motors, batteries, etc don’t need to have long lifetimes. Think about how cheap the battery can be if it doesn’t need to be rechargeable. If the motor needs at most 5 hours of runtime?

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It won’t make much of a difference. They put rechargeable batteries in disposable vapes because it isn’t worth it to manufacture non-rechargeable batteries, even though the batteries would be technically cheaper, the specialized manufacturing process would be more expensive.

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      • el_bhm@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is wendys.

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    • bi_tux@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      of course it’s not that cheap, but still pretty cheap

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      • el_bhm@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, precisely right. When compared to military precission weapons. That start at tens of thousands.

        And I gave as real of a number as possible, so there are no idiots thinking an fpv drone costs 35 bucks. Even if it has to fly once.

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s called a grenade?

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• lowered_lifted@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the drone pictured is a mavic 3 so at least $3000

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This particular one is the Mavic 3 pro, indeed around that price with the accessories. It’s what I fly for work.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know all the specific models and everything, but I do know drone warfare has been a pretty big deal and so has trying to make the cheapest ones possible. Here’s a good video on the topic: youtu.be/V3eOjRhihLU

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Right? I’ll give OP $50 a pop to source those $35 drones that are at least good enough to strap a grenade to and kill people. I don’t wanna kill people, but if it can carry a grenade, it can probably carry a camera and stuff.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One of them can have a grenade, my neighbor is kind of annoying.

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• DrownedRats@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve flown a number of drones and the best drone I’ve flown that clocks in under £100 is a tiny-whoop and they’re absolutely not fit for combat lol.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I really hope that “tiny-whoop” is it’s official name

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    • DrownedRats@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tiny-whoop more reffers to a class of drones rather than any specific drone. They’re small enough to be flown around indoors and typically weigh in at under 25g TOM. I guess you could use one for surveillance or scoping out a building in the field but defo not for combat lol

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      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m honestly getting confused by this thread now with how many of you are talking about frankly unrelated stuff. These aren’t for “combat” so much as they are for flying an explosive to a target one time and not surviving. The article used a generic picture.

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