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  Cool. Mayb our billions in tax dollars can stay local now
context: Think of it as low cost alternative to GPS artillery.  It is slow and it can be shot down but it is cheap and accurate. >
  
  Not particularly effective though. Even if you crash it in a trench your only getting 1 or 2 casualties.  The effect on moral will be rough, but so is just having a hand grenade fall out of the sky and land in your foxhole >
  
  its a price per kill style calculation, and it still adds up well.
  some of these drones are worth less than what russia promised(but ofc doesnt) pay the family of killed troops. even so, a 100k HIMARS missile for 20 vatniks vs a 5k or less drone for an individual... hell, iv heard of suicide drones potentially being 1k or less if the explosives are avaliable... basically a body for a mortar shell
  so use both, have the loitering drone watch the 'single use drone' impacts, and drop its grenades where needed after + command now knows exactly what damage was done. >
  
  Oh it's certainly cheaper than blanketing an area in artillery, but I doubt it's cheaper than the grenades and bombs their dropping from similar drones, which can return and rearm.
  I'm assuming their using different drone models for these missions >
  
  i think the difference is the grenade droppers are larger quad copters hovering in place while the suicide drones are more a model airplane coming in fast and boom. smaller faster targets
  then again, its all speculation on my part, im no drone expert. but switchblade style drones are far more difficult to defend against in their terminal stage >
  
  The other part is also a drone is harder to retaliate against. Artillery can be identified for counter battery fire.  A guy with a laptop is much harder to spot >
  
  i saw a vid early on of a Ukrainian drone operator with a chinese drone. they dropped it in the middle of a field, started it n fuckin legged it cause aparently china had given russia access to its drone tracking data... either way. drone did its thing, lands in field again, they pick it up. 4 hours later arty strike on that field... cause ofc, russia is top down only and it takes forever for info to go up n commands to come down >
  
  Sounds like they should just land it by some Russian troops without suiciding it. They will artillery themselves. >
  
  Sounds to me like they need to let some hackers play with the tracking modules. I'm betting someone out there can get it to provide a false location return. How many Russian ammo dumps do you think they could get the Russians to blow up before they notice? >
  
  War sure is fucking scary these days >
  
  If drone warfare reduces the casualty count, it might be the least-bad alternative. >
  
  Spoiler: it doesn't. It just makes it easier to view the opposition as inhuman from 30,000 ft. >
  
  Sure, instead let's give the men on the ground ptsd and make it 1000 times more dangerous cause ethics /s
  dumbest argument against drones ever.. >
  
  The weaponization of drone tech has come way sooner than I had expected, time sure flies. >
  
  What do you mean, this has been around for at least 2 decades. Many more if you get a bit lose with the definition of ‘drone’ >
  
  Memories are shockingly short on Reddit. People were in an uproar when weaponized drones were being used by the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. >
  
  Well ya, when used against civilians inadvertently >
  
  Are you suggesting that the US military should actually target threats instead of random groups of parents and children? >
  
  They could be future terrorists. Gotta be proactive. >
  
  Wedding party hit. 20% of survivors take up arms against the West in their grief and anger 
  I fuckin knew it! Terrorists! >
  
  Imagine some poor mobilized Russian stepping into a battlefield only to have a hundred switchblade drones just slamming into the battlefield all around him. There's no one to shoot at, nowhere to run, no direction, no cover, and it just goes on and on and on and on. Yeesh. >
  
  …but Putin said they were winning though… >
  
  Russia has been using kamikaze drones for a while now. So have you imagined some poor mobilized Ukrainian stepping into a battlefield only to have a hundred switchblade drones just slamming into the battlefield all around him? There's no one to shoot at, nowhere to run, no direction, no cover, and it just goes on and on and on and on. >
  
  They use them sparingly and try to hit equipment with them. They’ve taken out a few artillery pieces and barely nicked a couple others, done next to nothing on troops. 
  Switchblades so far have been pretty accurate at killing troops, they just need a bigger warhead to be more effective. >
  
  I'm honestly surprised that Ukraine has not been given enough kamikaze drones to have them in the air 24/7.
  it's by far the best weapon on the battlefield >
  
  yeah I think it's just difficult to understand the scale of the war and how quickly the weapons or drones in this case get dispersed and used up. there's no unifying threads on drone related news from either side. we know Ukraine has an elaborate drone program, or programs. we know piles and piles of various types are donated and adapted for use. and yet we still see stories like this that make it seem like they're only just getting started with them. but we've been seeing these stories the whole war. >
  
  Well, that's a brand new sentence. >
  
  'Charity fundraising' sounds pretty wholesome. 
  '1000 unit kamikaze drone fleet' on the other hand... >
  
  Giving Ukraine the ability to protect themselves is wholesome. >
  
  Until after the war end and weapons end up in the black market. 😬 >
  
  Of which there is no guarantee and still wouldnt be as bad as a russian victory >
  
  Anyone knows if there’s a way to donate specifically for kamikaze drones? >
  
  it's kinda shitty to use "kamikaze" and "suicide" type wording.
  just call them "single use" >
  
  At the end of the day, the only difference between a "kamikaze drone" and a cruise missile is size, I guess. >
  
  Guessing the drone can circle the combat area until a target is chosen, then strike immediately; while a missle isn't launched until the target is already determined. >
  
  Yes, that’s why kamikaze drones are also called “loitering munitions.” >
  
  Someone needs to put up a no loitering sign up just to prevent this from happening. >
  
  Just paint them white to avoid loitering charges. >
  
  Why doesn’t Ukraine simply purchase more Switchblades?! >
  
  Switchblades are likely pretty expensive because they need to be easily portable. Ukraine has a fairly well defined, static-ish front line, so they can smash together something larger from bits off hobbyking/wish.com and transport them in vehicles to that front line. >
  
  Yeah, seems that a Switchblade 300 is $6,000. >
  
  And in all the videos claiming to be switchblades, we don't see many big payoffs.  I can't tell if that is because it is a weapon developed recently when US focus was to target individuals and avoid bystander/civilian deaths or operator error or the weapon shown isn't actually that system. >
  
  Good point and also there is the switchblade 600 that seems to have upgraded and newer capabilities. Although again with pricing- I do wonder how much each unit of the 600 costs >
  
  Title gore. >
  
  This must be the first time the words "kamikaze" and "charity fundraising" are used in the same sentence. >
  
  Seeing the words ‘kamikaze’ and ‘charity fundraising’ in the same sentence is peak r/brandnewsentence >
  
  Well, rain hell then! >
  
  Please.Stop.Saying.Kamikaze.Drones
  THEY ARE MISSILES, THEY DO NOT SACRIFICE THEIR LIFE >
  
  Just because it functionaly does the same thing as a missile doesn't make it a missile. They are fundamentally different in design. It's like saying a mortar and an artillery gun are the same thing. >
  
  My point is that using the word "Kamikaze" has a big weight on the imaginary of common people. Press should not use these words as synonims. >
  
  I usually don't give to charities as a lot of the big ones have become bloated and have lost their way. 
  This though. This is a fabulous one. >
  
  Make drone footage of target impact available to donors and watch the money flow in >
  
  Maydar’s army of birds will soon be in the air.
  Well done to those of you who donated! >
  
  Finally a charity I can get behind. >
  
  That's not a sentence I'd expect to read on a regular basis. >
  
  So if they could be piloted by ai and the other side developed anti drone drones also piloted by ai everyone could just stay home until one side ran out of money. War in the new century.. >
  
  Never thought I would see the word "Kamikaze" & "Charity" in the same sentence. >
  
  Wow, I can get a tax write off for someone killing someone 1000's of kilometers away from me with a suicide drone, what level is this?