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Re:Turkey Now Has Swarming Suicide Drones It Could Export by gambiting on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:14AM (#23574711)
Drones are consumer level technology. This isn't very different from a high-end Mavic drone, except that someone mounted an explosive instead of a camera to it. On the other hand there is absolutely nothing that a regular consumer can buy that would reassemble a guided missile.
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Re:Turkey Now Has Swarming Suicide Drones It Could Export by throwaway0a5e on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:17AM (#23574742)
I agree. Technology trickles down the bank account spectrum. At first only nation states could do drones. Then smaller nation states could do drones. Then bigcos could do drones. Now we've got drones in consumers hands. It should come as no surprise that some nation states decide to use consumer quality and price drones for nation state purposes (their police probably patrol the streets with the same handguns consumers can buy). Just because it's trickled down doesn't mean it's not useful.
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Re:Turkey Now Has Swarming Suicide Drones It Could Export by sudosysgen on Friday June 19, 2020 @04:02PM (#23578344)
You can buy a jet engine and build a 700mph drone that can carry a payload. You can also buy a laser gyroscope, or use open source code to build a SLAM system for guidance.

So yes, a consumer can build a guided missile.

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Re:Turkey Now Has Swarming Suicide Drones It Could Export by candiodari on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:49AM (#23583169)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPGDAZyQ44k

I wonder what chance anyone has of stopping something like this. It can certainly carry an explosive and flying 50 or even 200 km is probably doable with a bit of a scaleup.

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Re:Turkey Now Has Swarming Suicide Drones It Could Export by meaydinli on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:23AM (#23574799)
oh you should definitely checkout some of the more serious "hobby" rockets and launches. All it would need is some extra kick and some guidance. Hezbollah builds and launches even more basic missiles all the time, and hurts Israel all the time.
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