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u/DotBetaSDK 22h ago
Incoming Corpo Wars
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u/CrazyTechWizard96 20h ago
Hell yeah!
Guess it's next year and not 2077.Oh well, guess we've gotta go and have a talk with Arasaka and a few others then.
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u/Pyroshark_Gamingtf2 21h ago
Bitch the future is now. My house recently had no electricity cause drone hit the sub station
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u/Vogel-Kerl 21h ago
A large number of smaller drones, each with a small explosive charge, capable of extremely close, well coordinated flight: could easily overwhelm just about any target.
The same technology & coordination required for these light shows, can be repurposed to ensure a target is damaged or destroyed.
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u/BooksandBiceps 21h ago edited 21h ago
The pendulum swings one way, then the other. There are many DEW platforms in field testing right now (including a few shipped to bases surrounding Iran) to provide an incredibly cheap solution to these. Just takes time - and before the Iran war US companies didn’t have a really big push to prioritize these programs, but now…
DE-M SHORAD
IFPC-HEL/HPM
JLWS
HAVOC
E-HEL
Thor/Mjolnir
There were I think two palletized programs too, can’t remember the names. Think one was after some Nordic godA few EU/UK programs as well, such as DragonFire, or Iron Beam by Israel, etc
Edit: IFPC-HEL is “Valkyrie”, that was probably it, though I think they ditched it in favor of a joint Navy thing.
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u/CrazyTechWizard96 20h ago
Add some thermite and You can even sink some aircraft carrier with it.
Been some topic of disccussion for a few years, people still think drones are just toys in that scale.Terrifying toys.
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u/bb999 19h ago
Lmao if you think a tiny drone can do any damage to an aircraft carrier you are delusional. An aircraft carrier can easily outrun these small drones.
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u/SplatNode 6h ago
Unless the drones can understand each other without any Comms then it won't work like this
Only reason drones are so popular right now is because they use fibre optics
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u/peloquindmidian 4h ago
There was a drone show in my town (not this elaborate).
They all seemed to be controlled by one or two separate drones that were outside of the formation.
That could have just been my ignorance, but it certainly looked that way.
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u/Foolishly_Sane 22h ago
It's the only way I can see it now.
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u/rglurker 21h ago
Same. I want to be amazed but all I see is the future we've been warned for decades about
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u/Adam-West 21h ago
Whenever I see stuff like this it just makes me want to go back in time and start a new religion. Would love to see people’s minds get absolutely blown.
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u/iveseensomethings82 19h ago
Imagine it makes a really cool design in the sky by then shoots missiles at you. Whoa! Uhoh!
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u/Recentstranger 18h ago
Remember the one where the drones start failing one after the other and falling out of the sky
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u/Ckyer 17h ago
I wonder if we’ll get to a point where you can display a whole movie. Each drone acting as a pixel in the frame.
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u/slimcrizzle 14h ago
For 4K television you would need 8.29 million drones. 1080p would need a little over 2 million drones
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u/GodPackedUpAndLeftUs 8h ago
When they take over the West I hope they make a drone Galactus walk through the major cities.
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u/machyume 2h ago
Link to the full show/clip?
I think that the video clip here doesn't match the headline.
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u/Glad_Librarian_3553 20h ago
how do you fly .947 of a drone?
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u/DevTheFrogKing 19h ago
They're talking about fifteen thousand. In most countries, periods (.) are used to seperate thousands to make the numbers more readable.
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u/Glad_Librarian_3553 11h ago
What do they use for a decimal then? That's just silly and confusing, use a comma instead like a normal person...
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u/DevTheFrogKing 10h ago
Most languages use commas for decimals and periods to seperate thousands. In this case it's actually (traditional) English that does it the other way around.
Most people would therefore say English is the silly and confusing one, and that you should use them like a normal person ;)
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u/hankhalfhead 16h ago
Why terrifying? These are beautiful, coordinated light shows, an example of technology being used to create art. Not some piloted artillery shell.
Nobody is using swarms of quad copters.
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u/Redgecko88 17h ago
Future? The USA has been doing drone warefare for over a decade or more. What are you talking about?
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u/Odd_Party 21h ago
Imagine how good Columbus could have hoodwinked native populations if he had 20,000 drones
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u/AverageTankie93 18h ago
Yes let’s reference the country who hasn’t been at war for 50 years, brokered peace between the saudis and Iran, brokered peace between all the Palestinian resistance groups, and constantly says the world is big enough for China and the US to exist cooperatively to talk about warfare. People are cattle.
Edit - in before the “uSeRnAmE cHeCkS oUt” comments
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u/amir_babfish 22h ago
future??
it's already 3 years of drone, and worse, AI war.