• aquovie@lemmy.cafe
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    14 days ago

    This doesn’t have any practical application in Ukraine.

    Ukraine detects FPV drones with numerous distributed and networked microphone/acoustic sensors. You’re not going to get any cheaper than a used phone paired with a $2 USB solar panel.

    The larger Shahed/Geran and above stuff isn’t limited by radar detection. What they need are cheap interceptors to deal with swarm attacks.

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      14 days ago

      If you crack the combination of “actually cheap” and “reliable interceptor”, the US military industrial complex is going to build you your very own Scrooge vault.

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        14 days ago

        And then defense contractors will sell it to the government for a 10,000% markup.

        But in all reality they would steal it after the inventor commits suicide with 2 rounds to the back of the head