• Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    It’s not strange to have one weapon being the most meta one in the server. Spear or any long poking stick has been THE meta for a long time, backed by bow. Then crossbow came along, then gun. All these are very much usable by peasant that can be quickly trained to use one. Drone though, that thing need time to specialise. It’s the new meta because the thing is cheap to produce and can defeat million dollar equipment easily

    Am not looking forward when automated murder drone became the new meta.

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    What drone is OP getting that it’s only $35? I don’t think I’ve seen them from anything less than about $200 and a good one is about $500 to $700

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        Analog fpv drone is at least €150 when produced on a mass scale. Parts alone.

        This is nowhere near 35 bucks cheap.

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          But those FPV drones have to be reusable. A kamikaze drone only needs to last long enough to get to the target. Motors, batteries, etc don’t need to have long lifetimes. Think about how cheap the battery can be if it doesn’t need to be rechargeable. If the motor needs at most 5 hours of runtime?

          Even if they have a 10% spontaneous failure rate of they’re 30% the price it’d still be worth it.

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            It won’t make much of a difference. They put rechargeable batteries in disposable vapes because it isn’t worth it to manufacture non-rechargeable batteries, even though the batteries would be technically cheaper, the specialized manufacturing process would be more expensive.

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            Yes, precisely right. When compared to military precission weapons. That start at tens of thousands.

            And I gave as real of a number as possible, so there are no idiots thinking an fpv drone costs 35 bucks. Even if it has to fly once.

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        It’s called a grenade?

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        This particular one is the Mavic 3 pro, indeed around that price with the accessories. It’s what I fly for work.

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      I’ve flown a number of drones and the best drone I’ve flown that clocks in under £100 is a tiny-whoop and they’re absolutely not fit for combat lol.

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          Tiny-whoop more reffers to a class of FPVs rather than any specific drone. They’re small enough to be flown around indoors and typically weigh in at under 25g TOM. I guess you could use one for surveillance or scoping out a building in the field but defo not for combat lol

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    Got into fpv after watching Ukrainian highlight reels. Aside from the manmade horrors beyond comprehension it looked really fun.