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Re:Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules by lesuorac on Friday January 05, 2024 @12:56PM (#38882172)
I'm not sure that's accurate.

Drones have been in use long before Russia took any land from Ukraine in 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_warfare#Notable_drone_st...

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Re:Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules by melling on Friday January 05, 2024 @01:02PM (#38882270)
Sure, they’ve been around for a while.

However, a war like the one in Ukraine will accelerate the development and usage of drones. You could tell by the early usage in the first few months of the war.

Now more global defense dollars will go into the rapid development.

Wait until we see swarms of (semi)autonomous drones

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Re:Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules by bostik on Friday January 05, 2024 @01:18PM (#38882502)
> Wait until we see swarms of (semi)autonomous drones

Slaughterbots[ß] becoming reality in 3...2...1...

ß: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

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Re:Cheap and They Don't Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules by jsight on Friday January 05, 2024 @01:54PM (#38883035)
I think we are already there. "Optical targeting" and "edge computing" are terms getting tossed around in weird ways at times.
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