CDRMITTENScake to NonCredibleDefenseEnglish · 6 months agoWhy doesn't any country do this?imagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down114file-text
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minus-squareferretlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·6 months ago15 watts could certainly lift a drone, a 15 watt drone probably couldn’t lift a 15 watt fiber power receiver though. Really the fiber is just silly. Use a laser or regular wires
minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 months agoDJI Mavic 3 (a modest camera drone) has a 74Wh battery with a claimed flight time of 46 minutes. That means it needs 48W. High speed racing drones, like the kind you might want to make into a kamakazie drone, will take a lot more than that.
minus-squareferretlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoMavic 3 is heavy. There are much lighter and much smaller drones that use less power. You wouldn’t need your tank-tethered drone to be fast.
minus-squareTexMexBazooka@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoIt needs to be able to support its own weight plus weaponry plus ammo
15 watts could certainly lift a drone, a 15 watt drone probably couldn’t lift a 15 watt fiber power receiver though. Really the fiber is just silly. Use a laser or regular wires
DJI Mavic 3 (a modest camera drone) has a 74Wh battery with a claimed flight time of 46 minutes. That means it needs 48W.
High speed racing drones, like the kind you might want to make into a kamakazie drone, will take a lot more than that.
Mavic 3 is heavy. There are much lighter and much smaller drones that use less power. You wouldn’t need your tank-tethered drone to be fast.
It needs to be able to support its own weight plus weaponry plus ammo