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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's fair, there's other angles of observation made available already.

Seeing as you like speculating about cyberpunk, how about if observation is just the initial way to way to sell the drone cloud? Depending on how cheap you can make them, there's an argument to made for reducing time-to-intercept for low-speed aerial objects.

If you've got a bunch of drones overhead already, you could run one in to the path of a kamikaze drone, or if your swarm is even lightly armed, you can extend engagement range and reduce required accuracy with a single buckshot shell to shoot an offending drone down.

If you're content to prioritize executive safety over public saftey, there's a lot that can be done.

Drone displays terrify me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

How about if observation is just the initial way to way to sell the drone cloud? Depending on how cheap you can make them, there's an argument to made for reducing time-to-intercept for low-speed aerial objects. If you're content to prioritize executive safety over public saftey, there's a lot that can be done.

This isn't something I've ever considered, I hate it! 🤣 Essentially a light weight, personal, iron dome. Considering the great lengths Putin goes through to protect himself from his own military, I could see the mango and friends doing this.

Hell imagine if they made the drone cloud then took Israel's "Gospel", slapped that into them and create a full blown Big brother. Sure it just recommends targets now, but with more training from two fascist states it could become something much worse.

I hate this timeline.