So this is the real wunderwaffe of this war! This has probably killed and maimed more Russians than any other weapon in Ukraine.



Discuss

>>58055951 (OP)

I'm just happy, because once the war ends these things will go for absolutely fucking nothing once they have enough surplus and upgrade.

I will be able to buy parts for them for bargain bin prices.

>>58055951 (OP)

Yeah now imagine what the country that can mass produce them (China) can do with these combined with AI. At the very least a modern war would look like 10,000 drones combing large regions and dropping grenades using AI identification, perhaps with a single human confirmation in the loop. The human in the loop could simply evaluate a single picture and hit "yes" or "no". One person will confirm many kills per minute without having to actually operate them manually.

Nah.

For now you still need someone to arm them and transport them to the front, might as well let them control it locally and reduce communications logistics. Unless it gets jammed, in which case autonomy will take over maybe.

Only time you're really gonna see networking is with swarm attacks, and they won't have man in the middle it's too inefficient.

>>58055951 (OP)

If anything drones are not used to their fullest potential. An entire swarm as big as the ones that do Candy Crush ads could wipe out one entire front.

>For now you still need someone to arm them and transport them to the front



These are commercial drones you're talking about. When militaries get serious they will have vehicles that the drones can automatically re-arm/charge without any interaction.

>>58055951 (OP)

Russian can't into EW.

>>58055951 (OP)

>it's another thread where we pretend these aren't old news and that actual modern armies didn't already have countermeasures for these in place before this war even started

You are really overthinking.



Get 100 drones

Order them into enemy field

Drop a nade at anything that moves

Return upon depletion

The only expensive parts are nades and optics.

Are these so called "countermeasures" in the room with us right now?

>he doesn't know

The US Army started integrating EW assets at the company level to jam drones and locate their operators back in 2017 in response to ISIS using commercial quadcopters to drop grenades in 2016. This is before considering the push for lasers (like the Boeing CLWS that the Marines started testing in 2019 and expanded their contract for last year, pic related) and traditional remote weapon stations with tracking capabilities to take out drones.

Wondering about efficacy of them flying themselves to the front. A lithium cell has 2000 charging cycles. Set up charging points every 10 miles, refine the recharge docks - its 5000 miles from the Pearl river delta to Kiev those little fuckers could overland it

At max range, one way those don't get you across the strait little man. But I encourage you to assume it will work and base your attack on that succeeding. I don't get the yellow fever thing so as soon as we get back to deployments around Arab girls the better

>>58055951 (OP)

Here's some OC, from a FPV drone I bought for the 101th TDF
