IT'S CALLED THE RAINBOW-817

  • Kestrel [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Just a reminder that if China has shit like this the U.S. almost certainly does too, and it might be more advanced. Fucking scary implications for future resistance to empire

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Most of the planes we have domestically are surveillance planes. Check out this AFB in OKC

        Absolutely love how libs will get so worried and upset about East Germany's Stasi when large US cities employ probably the same amount of surveillance personnel as the entirety of the GDR.

        • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          This is why I think anyone who says the USA is a free, stable democracy is completely and utterly full of shit. Just completely fucking full of shit. The "democracy" is just window dressing, if we're so free why do we need the GREATEST security apparatus ever devised? Like legit the US government probably knows when you fart

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        In still think that this tech is actually pretty useless. It's just vaporware that's used to excuse massive amounts of funding being pumped into the MIC.

        Remember when NYPD got one of those robodogs to patrol a low income housing complex and someone just tossed it out a window within like a week?

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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        3 years ago

        So the solution is to walk without rhythym? Real life becoming more like Dune every day

      • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Besides the fbi, local pd in medium sized cities had drones and helicopters at the protests. They're ready to expand full scale COIN operations domestically

        • bigboopballs [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          but they don't even need to because the left still doesn't exist here

    • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I keep joking about this but no shit they will probably have Half Life 2 style man hacks in the near future

    • ComradeKingfisher [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yup, we have them.

      The drone can be fired from a 40mm grenade launcher and be hand thrown as well.

      The modular bay of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) allows handlers to fit a payload into the tiny aircraft according to the nature of the mission.

      The UAV can be equipped with munitions including counter-drone hard and soft kill options, flashbangs, and chemical smoke along with kinetic options.

    • captcha [any]
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      3 years ago

      Not as much as you'd think. Everyone knows that drones are the future for combat but you can't justify huge price tags on them like you can with a jet fighter or warship. So they don't get invested in as much as you'd think. The only drones we take seriously are the big hunter/killer stuff. Everything else is treated like a toy.

      Its hard to guage the disparity in drone tech between the US and China militaries since both will hide their tech but overstate what they do show. To get a solid comparison, look at the commercial market. The top of the line commercial drones are from DJI a Chinese company. Professionals will tell you everything else is just a hobbiests toy.

      • ass [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        we need autonomous anti-drone drones at protests. like the modern equivalent of using hawks to kill carrier pigeons.

        • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          We have to create our own battle drones to destroy the government drones. This will be the robot war

        • captcha [any]
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          3 years ago

          Commoners having autonomous drones is sort of a stretch. A cheap FPV drone that gets piloted to suicide ram another is more reasonable, assuming the target doesn't evade. If the target can evade then even an autonomous one would be hard.

          Jamming their radios seems to be the way forward. Cheaper consumer models can be jammed with simple WiFi attack. Military grade ones you'll need something like a radio emitter.

    • Stancera [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      The usa military tech is trash bro. It's just all the same recycled shit

      • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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        3 years ago

        Also the project drags out for 10 years and cost 10x times the original budget, before finally they took a coin flip whether to push it into service or scrap it altogether.