Maybe, yeah. War is horrifying. But I’ve seen videos of soldiers desperately trying to dodge drones with charges, or groups of them seeing one dive bombing the truck they’re in at the last second, or people asleep in foxholes getting a grenade dropped down the chimney or next to them. If they manage to kill the drone, however unlikely, they win nothing. They didn’t kill an opponent in a fight. The terror of there’s another drone idling up high that’s gonna zoom in a soon as they’re not looking has got to be awful.
I was wondering about this. Because besides just figuring out how to fire it, dealing with the recoil and the weight of gun and ammunition. What can you reasonably kill without losing the drone?
You need a couple small rounds to down an unarmed target, in the videos, even drone operators a bit behind the front line wear armor, and I don’t believe they’ll have the range to find their way into some kind of base/encampment.
So do they aim them at exposed bits? It should be possible, especially with AI aim assist, and with the reusability might warrant upgrading cameras on the drone to something with enough resolution. But the time to track and aim, even machine assisted, would seem to put the drone at much increased risk.
I also don’t believe they’ll have the equipment for sniping or suppressive fire with the light drones currently in use.
Bet they can take out more russians per hour with a machine gun instead of getting back to fill up with grenades?
Probably a psychological effect too, baam badabambam ratatatata it’s the flying machinegun coming to get you!
Maybe, yeah. War is horrifying. But I’ve seen videos of soldiers desperately trying to dodge drones with charges, or groups of them seeing one dive bombing the truck they’re in at the last second, or people asleep in foxholes getting a grenade dropped down the chimney or next to them. If they manage to kill the drone, however unlikely, they win nothing. They didn’t kill an opponent in a fight. The terror of there’s another drone idling up high that’s gonna zoom in a soon as they’re not looking has got to be awful.
I was wondering about this. Because besides just figuring out how to fire it, dealing with the recoil and the weight of gun and ammunition. What can you reasonably kill without losing the drone?
You need a couple small rounds to down an unarmed target, in the videos, even drone operators a bit behind the front line wear armor, and I don’t believe they’ll have the range to find their way into some kind of base/encampment.
So do they aim them at exposed bits? It should be possible, especially with AI aim assist, and with the reusability might warrant upgrading cameras on the drone to something with enough resolution. But the time to track and aim, even machine assisted, would seem to put the drone at much increased risk.
I also don’t believe they’ll have the equipment for sniping or suppressive fire with the light drones currently in use.
What could they feasibly be used for?