Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ...
by bob33212 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:21PM
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If you mass produce these things you are going to leave traces of your logistics supply chain. Even if you brought them into a staging are one at a time your frequent trips would lead back to where they were made or by whom.
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Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ...
by lazide on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:27PM
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Which wouldn’t stop someone using it in a declared war - which we haven’t had yet by an actor likely to want it. Doesn’t mean it isn’t sitting in a military port somewhere though.
And since China makes like 99% of the parts used in drones, they very well could already have a couple hundred of those lying around and we’d never know.
Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ...
by dsq on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:13AM
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At some point 3d printing will make localized offgrid drone production entirely feasible.
Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ...
by ermir on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @07:51AM
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The chips, PCB, and all electronics have their embedded serial number in them. It's very likely many of these will survive a direct explosion, and once these identifiers are extracted from them, the supplier/manufacturer/vendor/customer will be identified using standard investigation methods. So while there's little possibility of some unknown Unabomber-style decade long rampage using this tech, they could be very destructive in the short-term.
My nightmare scenario is someone flying hundreds of these in formation on a stadium full of people. They could be launched from a parking lot from a single van or pickup truck. If you sacrifice the ability to hover by giving them wings, you might get very high range and not have to risk yourself at all while launching a devastating attack.