Comment on Downed Russian Shahed Drone Was Found With a Ukrainian SIM Card: Think Tank

troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s special about them? Seem like pretty basic drones.

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  • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨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.

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    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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