• JohnDClay
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    1 year ago

    Diy hobby drone! I wonder if it would fall apart in the rain?

    • m0darn@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I was wondering about the feasibility of a dumb transport done (plane style) with a small 2 stroke engine carrying a bunch (dozen?) of guided quadcopter drones to a cluster of targets deep in Russia.

      I feel like you could make the transporter for less than $500. Cheap enough to send them up as dummies to overwhelm air defenses.

      I’m sure the pentagon has already investigated this for them though.

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        There would be an issue communicating with them from that range. Maybe you could have a repeater on the mother ship? Anyway, I think right now they’re using all the quadcopters they can on the front lines.

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          I was imagining each quadcopter being autonomous (gps module).

          I suspect gps is easily jammed at the front but not so easily jammed over a large territory. But I don’t actually know anything about any of this, it’s total armchair speculation

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      You can impregnate cardboard to make it somewhat waterproof, so I’d guess rain is not an issue.