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  • Really cheap ground driving or walking drones can be an effective way to rapidly clear minefields too. It’s a good area for decoys too. If some of them have advanced thermal sensors and maybe some weapons then they’ll be a target for the enemy but you can have a bunch of real cheap dogshit versions that can’t do much more than move forward.

    Also there is still the air breathing battery technology, which isnt ready but is very high performance, double the charge or half the size. The limitation is something that might not matter for one time use drones, where the limitation is that the batteries corrode and don’t have many recharge cycles. That’s bad for phones but fine for disposable drones. I expect that will be a thing within 5 years.


  • It depends. If you start a war with a reasonable stockpile of artillery and shells then you will have a greater amount of shells than firing pieces at the start. So you can fire with your guns but you can get a big advantage if you can fire more than your opponent in the first round of fire and in the first few days. So if you can have a bunch of these cheapo things then you could effectively double or triple your rate of fire for a short period. That can be a big advantage if it means you break through fortifications or disabled anti air defense. They can move faster and be more responsive than moving artillery pieces around especially in rough terrain.

    So you want both really. Having more options is better.












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    6 days ago

    Only if your exposure in the future is less than in the past. Otherwise it will just go back up again. And considering plastic use is going up, you would have to use air filters and avoid micro plastics as much as possible.