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.
Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike
Submitted 3 weeks ago by misk@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.zip
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Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
In fairness, some of the weapons they have been strapping to their drones are also pretty heavy.
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
a human, not so much lol
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.
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The lighter ones can be 25-30 lbs.
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
These guys and their drones. It’s crazy how far Ukraine has advanced in such a short time.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You mean NATO that does it for them?
Only thing they’re advanced in is corruption.
crazycraw@crazypeople.online 3 weeks ago
hey that was my temu!
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
why not just rescue them via drone directly? no ebikes, just fly
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
The article says that one drone was shot down and one crashed under the weight of the ebike.
A soldier will be significantly heavier than an ebike. And you can risk them being shot down less than just the bike
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Simple, you just defragment the person into drone size pieces then reassemble.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
specific power & specific energy capacity of lithium ion batteries
trolololol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What the hell was that paragraph about Amazon?
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Seems like a reasonable addition? The average person’s conception of a drone delivering something is probably an Amazon drone or something like it, even if they’ve never seen one. The point being made was that the drones required to deliver an e-bike to an active war zone would be much beefier.
Aria@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
That’s very cool
baconmonsta@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Glad to hear Ukrainian forces care enough about their guys and gals to go through something like this to rescue them. I suppose the other side wouldn't do the same.
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Racist shit just “the asiatic hordes don’t value human life like us Civilized westerners” that’s some old school orientalism you got there.
nope@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Are you saying Russians are Asiatic ? You lost me there
InappropriateEmote@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
The side that press-gangs civilians on the street into unmarked white windowless vans to be shipped off as be cannon fodder on the front lines just pulled a gimmicky stunt for publicity in a losing war, yeah that sure does mean they care about their guys and gals! But the those bad guys the Russkies would never do something like that because they’re the bad guys.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Your comment doesn’t even make sense
Hexbear moment
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Somebody didn’t hear about the anti-retreat forces.