Comment on Low-Cost Drone Add-Ons From China Let Anyone With a Credit Card Turn Toys Into Weapons of War

• fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not if we ban adhesives, straps, glue, welding equipment, string, and bendable wires. Think of the children.

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For example, my Fimi (Xiaomi) drone has a factory accessory specifically to enable it to carry and drop stuff. I’ve had it for years. They market this as a search and rescue thing, i.e. you can strap medical supplies to it or something and fly them out to a hard to reach location.

  Any tit could just stick a grenade on it instead, but the rub there is that any tit is not allowed to just buy a grenade. The article above is full of breathless scaremongering about fiber optic tethers and guidance systems, but stops well short of specifying just what the fuck these imaginary bad actors are expected to do with the drone once they’ve got it over the presumptive target. If somebody’s already got a bomb, the problem is that they’ve already got a bomb.

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  • duckworthy36@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The thing is, you can do plenty of damage just with gravity. Fly high enough and drop anything and it becomes a weapon. Theres a YouTuber I follow who tried destroying a car by dropping things with a drone. It was scary.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Very true, but at that rate I think actually nailing your target becomes a concern.

      Unless your goal is to just spread fear and discord, in which case it probably doesn’t matter much. Just load that sucker up with a brace of lawn darts and let it rip.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly

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