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  • Idk to me drones are a lifesaving tech, you’re right though since they wouldn’t care either way. I just like drones for their evasive nature.

    Also I just realized, if there are any commercially available USVs they can use those. It’s literally a small boat, then it would be a direct trade between risking your life and risking aid+cost of drone. Those are easier to shoot at though


  • what kinda drones are you people buying??? like, they already have a ship, I’m not saying to forget the ship, just use it as a launch platform so you don’t get shot???

    edit: also be real, that handful of ships isn’t gonna feed 2 million either

    edit2: btw just checked, i can get a top of the line 17" fpv for about 1000 bucks, carries 9kg and goes 20km, max speed is 160kph (i assume after it drops the payload)

    Just in case it isn’t clear: I’m proposing it as a last-mile delivery vehicle, not as a total replacement


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    They don’t care about activists, if the goal is to distribute aid getting killed seems counter-intuitive.

    edit: also drones are dirt cheap, so what if some of your quads get shot, you can launch hundreds at once

    edit2: and depending on the speed and size, the chances of shooting them down go down. I don’t think they have trophies on every meter of coastline or loads of EW for every frequency.

    Btw I’m super interested in stats on efficiency of this sort of thing, and not peace time smuggling or blockade running but these exact scenarios of civilians breaking military blockades


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    Why don’t they use drones lol. Smaller, faster, doesn’t risk anyone’s life, and if the hardware’s right they’ll have free reign (for a while).

    edit to add my reply:

    They don’t care about activists, if the goal is to distribute aid getting killed seems counter-intuitive.

    edit: also drones are dirt cheap, so what if some of your quads get shot, you can launch hundreds at once

    edit2: and depending on the speed and size, the chances of shooting them down go down. I don’t think they have trophies on every meter of coastline or loads of EW for every frequency

    Just in case it isn’t clear: I’m proposing it as a last-mile delivery vehicle, not as a total replacement