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Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ... by imtringued on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:49AM (#27444634)
$10 will get you a palm sized drone with a flight time measured in minutes. Stop dreaming. The type of drone that people are scared of costs at least $1000.

Hamas sends thousands of rockets in that budget range and nobody is scared that rocket swarms are going to kill thousands of Israelis. IDF retaliation killed more innocent people in a single bombing than all Hamas rockets combined.

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Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ... by kragen on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @02:10AM (#27444754)
> $10 will get you a palm sized drone with a flight time measured in minutes.

retail, and battery-powered. what will a $10 bom get you with a nitromethane-powered engine or a glider dropped from a helium balloon

> The type of drone that people are scared of costs at least $1000.

they need to rethink that. stop fighting the last war

> Hamas sends thousands of rockets in that budget range and nobody is scared that rocket swarms are going to kill thousands of Israelis

that's because hamas is too dumb to put glider wings and ardupilot on each rocket and possibly too deprived of facebook and imei-logger data to know where to find the specific thousands of israelis who are family members of the invading officers

'our enemy might be as incompetent as the hamas model rocketry club' is not a great way to think out how to provide security

this is not a dream. this is a nightmare

listen, i know this scenario isn't happening today. but it's going to happen within the next few years, and the fact that it isn't happening today isn't much of an argument against that

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