• Troy@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      The fibreglass lifting body immediately makes it more than your basic drone. Granted it’s not exactly rocket science, but you still need to get the shape right, make a giant mandrel, fit all those panels and doors together nicely. And then you need to figure out a production line that makes it cheap enough to mass produce them – after all, they get exploded.

      Just imagine they used all of those tools and skills to make sailboats instead. Or still in the drone form-factor, have them circle events with a 5g cell relay on them or something. War sucks but it pays salaries, sadly.

      • Peppycito
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        1 year ago

        A sailboat is probably way easier to build. Just more laborious.