Comment on Anon doesn't like the new meta

• el_bhm@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is wendys.

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  • bi_tux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • el_bhm@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s called a grenade?

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