Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism

Re:Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism by ldom22 on Saturday June 14, 2025 @02:51PM (#44278025)

So called “vampire drones” have the capacity to identify electrical transmission lines and leech off them

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Re:Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism by rcruzeiro on Saturday June 14, 2025 @03:54PM (#44278416)

This is still speculative tech, no?

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Re:Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism by rbanffy on Saturday June 14, 2025 @04:42PM (#44278691)

I bet it won't by next month or so.

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Re:Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism by BriggyDwiggs42 on Sunday June 15, 2025 @01:41PM (#44283719)

I remember seeing a demo. It doesn’t honestly seem very hard.

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Re:Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism by rcruzeiro on Sunday June 15, 2025 @04:25PM (#44284740)

I don’t think induction alone would cut it. Having the drone make contact and step down hundreds of kilovolts seem pretty hard to me. Plus the EM interference on the drones systems would be a challenge under the best circumstances.

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