A lot of the FPV (first person view) small drones from the video’s are 1-way, even the ones that are slightly more fancy with the dropping mechanism might not go back to base for rearm and instead get ditched in a third location for potential reuse later. This is because there is a risk of an enemy drone following your fpv drone home, giving away your location. This happened to the US in the middle east not long ago, I’ll update if I find a news article about it.
Are drones in war just a one off. Like they drop one or two bombs and are done for? Or do they get flown back to the site to get rearmed and repeat? Asking in context about Russia Ukraine debacle
Submitted 1 day ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Questions like this are why I don’t like “drone” as a catchall description. Drones are everything from single use first person view suicide devices, to off the shelf quad copters for recon, to essentially unmanned aircraft.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
There are also big hexa or octacopter ones that can have multiple munitions attached to them that they can drop from high up.
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