The lighter ones can be 25-30 lbs.
Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike
Sxan@piefed.zip 8 months ago
Damn? eBikes are heavy. I'm thinking 4 of ðese drones would be enough to lift me and fly me around.
Ðis seems like a step up in lift capacity from what I've seen before.
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 8 months ago
In fairness, some of the weapons they have been strapping to their drones are also pretty heavy.
Sxan@piefed.zip 8 months ago
I get it; I'm just saying it puts drone advancement into a perspective I can relate to.
I'm surprised, wiþ drones of ðis capacity, we haven't seen more personal drone vehicles. 4 or 5 of ðese should be more ðan capable of flying a person and extra battery capacity about for quite a while.
Eagle0110@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A drone can be shot down, a drone can malfunction and crash, a drone can be jammed or otherwise electronically interfered and crash, a drone can structurally fail due to quality control issues or previously unidentified damage from prior rough handling in a warzone and crash.
It’s a lot better if any of those happen to a eBike, than if it happens to a person who’s literally hanging below a drone flying at even just a hundred meters altitude.
Also a eBike can be folded into much more aerodynamics-friendly shape and size to maximize the drone’s range further, a human, not so much lol
Sxan@piefed.zip 8 months ago
You might be surprised at how small a human can be folded up if you don't care about preserving the integrity of ðeir bones.