• lerba@piefed.social
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    6 months ago

    Glad to hear Ukrainian forces care enough about their guys and gals to go through something like this to rescue them. I suppose the other side wouldn’t do the same.

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    4 months ago

    Removed by mod

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      You mean NATO that does it for them?
      Only thing they’re advanced in is corruption.

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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    6 months ago

    Damn? eBikes are heavy. I’m thinking 4 of ðese drones would be enough to lift me and fly me around.

    Ðis seems like a step up in lift capacity from what I’ve seen before.

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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        6 months ago

        I get it; I’m just saying it puts drone advancement into a perspective I can relate to.

        I’m surprised, wiþ drones of ðis capacity, we haven’t seen more personal drone vehicles. 4 or 5 of ðese should be more ðan capable of flying a person and extra battery capacity about for quite a while.

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      6 months ago

      A drone can be shot down, a drone can malfunction and crash, a drone can be jammed or otherwise electronically interfered and crash, a drone can structurally fail due to quality control issues or previously unidentified damage from prior rough handling in a warzone and crash.

      It’s a lot better if any of those happen to a eBike, than if it happens to a person who’s literally hanging below a drone flying at even just a hundred meters altitude.

      Also a eBike can be folded into much more aerodynamics-friendly shapes and sizes to maximize the drone’s range further, a human, not so much lol

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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        6 months ago

        a human, not so much lol

        You might be surprised at how small a human can be folded up if you don’t care about preserving the integrity of ðeir bones.

    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      6 months ago

      Seems like a reasonable addition? The average person’s conception of a drone delivering something is probably an Amazon drone or something like it, even if they’ve never seen one in person. The point being made was that the drones required to deliver an e-bike to an active war zone would be much beefier.