What happens when these things get in the wrong hands? Say someone wants to have their ex-spouse taken out before a custody battle. The possibilities are limitless.
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the beginning of Skynet. In all seriousness, this is a good example of the law not keeping up with technology. Will drones with weapons be regulated or do they have 2A protection?
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A military drone in a custody battle.
That is a hypothetical.
Just like the internet. Expand your thinking before you get droned.
No, what is truly mind boggling is that us, Russia or China did not foresee how effective drones are in these wars.
A United States Tomahawk cruise missile costs roughly $2 to $4M’s. A Ukrainian drone’s cost ranges from $2K’s to about $50k’s. $3M’s vs $20k, the math does not work.
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and other defense contractors are great companies but what about being the most dominant drone manufacturer/producer? It took a civil Ukrainian to come up with the drone defense idea. To be that far off and to not come up with this type of “defense” is truly a question that ought to be asked. How many Ukrainian lives could have been saved if Ukraine had these drones when this conflict started? Obviously we will never know but this is a lesson we are also learning in the Iranian conflict.
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Which is why we may need the hire some of those guys as doctrine writers for our own military, just as I said.
Russia has now lost more than 500,000 killed in the Ukraine war. To put that in perspective, the US lost 57,434 in Viet Nam and 416,800 in WWII.
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And only 7K or so in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
VERY costly war in Ukraine.
Only feels like the wrong word (not that I have a better one) but get your point. That’s wildly different.
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Not trying to minimize the losses we had there, which includes a few of my colleagues.
Just showing how much costlier in lives Russia’s war in Ukraine has been by comparison.
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I saw an internet report today that a Russian suicide drone just hit Romania and caused a lot of damage.
Yep, and Russian scum blame the victim.
Ukraine continues to take the fight to Moscow.
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Whoop their asses!!!