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Re:Ukraine uses Australian drones made of cardboard by jgilias on Sunday August 27, 2023 @05:11PM (#37286686)
Does it terrify you more than long rage artillery and cluster bombs? All I see is a more efficient anti-personnel weapon that should be better at discerning between combatants and non-combatants. If it becomes a ‘better’ weapon than say cluster bombs, that’s a great outcome.

I’m somewhat gloomy about all of this. It’s just that war is war, it means killing people. Once it’s on, it’s on. So you need to be able to kill the enemy as efficiently as possible while minimizing non-combatant casualties before and after the conflict.

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Re:Ukraine uses Australian drones made of cardboard by saiya-jin on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:12PM (#37287134)
That's just emotional reaction to something very in-your-face, in same vein some folks are terrified of flying planes, despite it being consistently safest method of travel but can hop on a car and drive day and night without much of a worry.

Long range artillery is the killer in Ukraine in terms of numbers, combatants consistently say so on both sides. But it doesn't have that wow effect of drone drop videos.

It has been the same say in WWI, anybody who read for example All Quiet on the Western Front would see it there. Not typical US wars against some poor fuckers with rusty AKs, but this one is very different and much more symmetrical. Something tells me that any symmetrical non-nuclear conflict these days wouldn't look that different to Ukraine.

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Re:Ukraine uses Australian drones made of cardboard by elsonrodriguez on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:24PM (#37287205)
Using a cluster bomb against a political rival has a lot more friction than using an autonomous drone.
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Re:Ukraine uses Australian drones made of cardboard by imtringued on Monday August 28, 2023 @02:56AM (#37290721)
If you don't become collateral damage then why would you care for that political rival? There are many ways to kill a single person and most of them won't target you.
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Re:Ukraine uses Australian drones made of cardboard by dontwearitout on Monday August 28, 2023 @11:19AM (#37295507)
You make some great points and I agree. Low cost autonomous drones swarms aren't scary because they're more lethal than 155mm shells, they're scary because there's no effective defense (yet).
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