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.
Am not looking forward when automated murder drone became the new meta.
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These people talk like they just love war. That’s how you know they’ve never been in one.
gun.jpg > ruins warfare > ruins combat > ruins swordfights > ruins half the fucking military meta
\>ruins warfare
\>ruins combat
\>ruins phalanx
\>ruins half the fucking military meta
I better not look up who made up the Velites lol
The poorer/newer soldiers who couldn’t afford their own equipment? Honestly, that’s how everyone did it for a millenium.
The whole concept of the Velites is fucking wild:
“Hey, you’re young and poor as shit, go to the frontline and throw some sticks on those heavily armed guys lol here’s a wolf hat you fucking loser lmao”
“remember, when an elephant charges at you, step aside”
“The fuck is an elephant?”
“You’ll know one when you see one”
Typical Roman behavior. Go saddle Incitatus!
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
You aren’t looking at the same shit. There are extremely high tech drones that are huge and designed for long term use. These aren’t those. These are made as cheaply as they possibly can with one single goal: get this explosive to it’s destination. They are single flight devices.
kamicaze drones are pretty cheap
Analog fpv drone is at least €150 when produced on a mass scale. Parts alone.
This is nowhere near 35 bucks cheap.
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.
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.
This is wendys.
of course it’s not that cheap, but still pretty cheap
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.
It’s called a grenade?
the drone pictured is a mavic 3 so at least $3000
This particular one is the Mavic 3 pro, indeed around that price with the accessories. It’s what I fly for work.
I don’t know all the specific models and everything, but I do know drone warfare has been a pretty big deal and so has trying to make the cheapest ones possible. Here’s a good video on the topic: https://youtu.be/V3eOjRhihLU
Right? I’ll give OP $50 a pop to source those $35 drones that are at least good enough to strap a grenade to and kill people. I don’t wanna kill people, but if it can carry a grenade, it can probably carry a camera and stuff.
One of them can have a grenade, my neighbor is kind of annoying.
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.
I really hope that “tiny-whoop” is its official name
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
I’m honestly getting confused by this thread now with how many of you are talking about frankly unrelated stuff. These aren’t for “combat” so much as they are for flying an explosive to a target one time and not surviving. The article used a generic picture.
I mean it’s not great that they made the hunter killer a reality.
Alternatively: Explodey Manhack Arcade.
Centurii-chan:
Time for some pike’n shotte
Aircraft carriers ruin the battleship meta.
Git gud scrub
Got into fpv after watching Ukrainian highlight reels. Aside from the manmade horrors beyond comprehension it looked really fun.
The shrapnel shell is the king of this. Decided nearly ever war since its invention.
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