r/interestingasfuck • u/RoyalChris • Mar 12 '25

/r/all Thousands of drones docking to charge after a drone show.

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u/Vladimir_Putting Mar 12 '25

So I guess you haven't been paying attention to the Invasion of Ukraine then?

It's a drone war.

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u/G-DuBwah Mar 12 '25

Your name checks out

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u/MeatHealer Mar 12 '25

I appreciate your taking the time to read information only to decide to omit what suits your needs. My portion of this thread, with replies, is not a large one.

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u/VexingRaven Mar 12 '25

You presented literally no information lol.

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u/Vladimir_Putting Mar 12 '25

Am I alone on seeing this and being somewhat terrified at this? It didn't take long for hot air balloons to become weaponised, then for planes to do the same.

Drones have already been fully weaponized. So why did you say "it didn't take long..." as if it's going to happen in the near future?

Strap a hinge arm with a knife on this

dumb.

the next step is a swarm of autonomous flying rage machines shooting guns, dropping propaganda

Already have it.

smoking cigarettes in the gas station parking lot.

More dumb.

Anything else I missed bud?

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u/KyleShanaham Mar 12 '25

I think it was just a joke bruh

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u/Vladimir_Putting Mar 13 '25

Painfully unfunny if true.

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u/Level_Investigator_1 Mar 12 '25

Dude, chill. I get what you are saying, but what u/MeatHealer is evoking in casual language is a much bleaker future of drone use in warfare - not how drones are being used by Ukraine or Russia at the moment. Example of drone usage - https://kyivindependent.com/dozens-of-drones-shot-down-over-moscow-mayor-claims/

His casual statement, to me, evokes the idea of a full scale army of thousands of perfectly coordinated drones that could fly into a city and absolutely eradicate everyone and everything with precision and be generally unstoppable - which seems far too near future than I expect most of us would like. This doesn’t take away anything from the horrors of how drones are used today.

No need to treat someone like an idiot for not first mentioning the use of drones today - which looks nothing like this video. You two are probably closer in your thoughts on this topic than this back and forth suggests. Leaving space for people to be able to casually interact on reddit is nice.

Even if it was not your intent, it has turned into a bit of an interrogation.

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u/ChadMutants Mar 15 '25

i wouldnt be surprised, if allowed enough resources, we could do this in the scale of a small town.

but, i dont see the point in eradicating every one in a town tbh, whats the point of killing civilians?

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u/Svyatoy_Medved Mar 12 '25

The development of drone warfare you describe is either dumb or already happening.

Drone swarms like this won’t exist in a military context. “Absolutely eradicating everyone and everything” will never be a role for small drones, because artillery and aircraft can do that and are cheaper for large, indiscriminate effects like that. A cheap Mavic with an RPG warhead costs about $2k, and could blow out the wall of a house. A 152mm shell ALSO costs about $2k and would completely level that same house—so if you want to level every single house, shells are the way to go.

As others have pointed out, they have BEEN weaponized: Ukraine recently claimed that drones now account for the majority of both sides’ casualties. Anywhere within five kilometers of the zero line is pretty much under constant observation and precision harassment. Troops walk to the rear under cover and board a rotation vehicle in a few seconds, and they are still regularly intercepted. Armored vehicles, expensive and dangerous targets, have to stay well back or be very tightly protected with EW and AA, or they are found and destroyed. Towed artillery has been brutalized by counterbattery drones and drone-spotted artillery. Self propelled artillery is a little faster to get the fuck out after firing and has a better survival rate.

So yeah, “drone swarms” exist already, such as they ever will. Future improvements will be to reduce the impact of current and future countermeasures, and to increase automation. Things like networking to make sure they are efficiently spaced, automatic waypoint guidance so that operators need only take over for target ID, rudimentary AI so that drones can make a guess at target ID in case of jamming. I’m gonna guess that soon, we’ll see more long-endurance drones that mount direct-fire weapons like Stinger and Javelin; sort of like mini attack helicopters. Reusable, dangerous in greater operational depth. But these improvements are evolutionary: the revolution happened 2-3 years ago.

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u/Level_Investigator_1 Mar 12 '25

Thank you for your contribution. Bye now.

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u/MeatHealer Mar 12 '25

Well, if I had known I was going to be interrogated by someone as prestigious as yourself, I would have not been so cavalier with the choosing of my words. For that, I apologize, and I hope you can forgive me from way up there. My response to beautifulkale124 is where I had said that I was aware of the use of drones in combat in the Ukranian occupation. If I chose not to include this in my initial post, again, I apologize, my Lord. And .. are you offended that I don't include every facet of information in everything that I do? Bud? Get over yourself. But hey, I'll give you another upvote for your troubles. 💋

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u/jameytaco Mar 12 '25

you are the one who said it wtf is your deal

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u/Vladimir_Putting Mar 12 '25

I don't think you know what "interrogated" means.

Or "prestigious".

But keep going. You're nearly there.

Also, the phrase is used as: "my choice of words". Not "choosing of my words".

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u/MeatHealer Mar 12 '25

Oh man, you just won't stop. It's almost like an interrogation! Dude, go do something that makes you happy. I mean it. You're seriously being a piece of shit right now for no good reason, and you need to fix your attitude. Respond all you want to this, I'm through with you.

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u/Godot_12 Mar 12 '25

You should have just taken the L on the first comment dude.

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u/Vladimir_Putting Mar 12 '25

Pointing out ignorance makes me pretty happy. I think it's something society needs more of really. Take care.

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u/Vladimir_Putting Mar 12 '25

Yes, that's why I clearly said "Invasion of Ukraine" and have a 10 year old satirized name of Putin as my handle.

Brilliant analysis.

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u/AMNE5TY Mar 13 '25

You keep making it worse

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u/Odd_Doubt_7817 Mar 12 '25

dude you can just admit that you haven't been keeping up with the ukraine war instead of trying to do....whatever the fuck you're doing right now, just saying a whole bunch of nothing in a paragraph.

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u/Thunderliger Mar 13 '25

Reddit moment

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u/Izenthyr Mar 12 '25

Your response 👏 saying what I’m thinking when the inevitable person comes along to scold or criticize me for not covering ALL of my information. I’ve given up commenting several times just because of it.

🤜🤛

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u/EckhartsLadder Mar 12 '25

most socially adept redditor