(04-14-2024, 01:17 PM)727Sky Wrote: If nothing else the cheap drones have many defense contractors trying to figure out how they can keep their insane military contract profit margins and bonuses for delays going.
Some of the supposedly cheap USA supplied drones are unreliable and cost 10X more than the home made Ukraine or even the Chinese supplied drones.
I think it is great when an armed 500 dollar drone takes out equipment costing a few million to manufacture; warfare is changing before our very eyes and history is being made.
Current drones ( the small ones) need better range and batteries plus a way of not being jammed.. They are already working on drones that need no human in the loop as the drone can identify a target and attack all by itself. I assume the only thing the human has to do is say OK to the drone for the attack.
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