Posts by definitely-not-indy

Quote from Danneskjold

I meant in America. Outside of Canada and USA, RPG shells are a dime a dozen. But inside?

Can't find it, make it. 3D print a casing in PETG and stuff an IED into it. Hell, if somebody is working with you on it, it was probably their idea, and they are an FBI informant and will just give you the warheads anyways.

Not that you need them and this remains a bit more of a movie scene than real life. All you need to cripple US chemical/oil infrastructure is a rifle or VBIED. The only thing between massive chemical plants and people are chain link fences, and they are right off of highways like 225.

Quote from rabidrabit

I wonder if using a very directional but pretty high powered station like this would punch through a lot more EW jamming at lower risk given the tight beam.

I can say that it reduces accidental jamming, like oops I flew too close to those highlines and my video feed started to wash out.

If you want to fly at ranges the FAA would very much frown upon...

On the DJI it's either 2.4/5.8ghz using a custom protocol they wrote, or just a really well engineered wifi setup depending on the models.

Quote from Danneskjold

Where are you going to get RPG shells, though?

If you were determined to wage war on the US, where can't you get RPG shells? The Cartels even are already flying them against each other.

Quote from Gina

The drones are terrifying. The consumer drones that Ukraine uses are racing drones and they're very fast. They're much harder to fly than photography drones, but they're super maneuverable and very fast.

They're actually extremely easy to fly. Everybody here that's played AH could do it easily with an afternoon of practice. Within a few hours you'll be shooting gaps the size of an open window. The only thing to tweak with experience is the camera angle. The more angle you have, the faster go since level to your vision is a ton of forward body tilt, but the harder it is to fly slow since you end up seeing more air than ground. Otherwise it's just 2 sticks, Rudder & Power on your left, Pitch & Roll on the right. If you panic, you just flip a switch and auto-hover turns on. Another switch position can turn on angle limits to prevent you from doing rolls and loops.

Practice is also extremely cheap. Most frames hold up to a lot of crashes, they fly on cheap, fast charging lipo batteries, and the only constant replacement is really cheap propellers.

If you want to stop something that's just using onboard inertial navigation and machine vision because you're jamming the control and video frequencies, you either have to shoot it out of the air or blind it with lasers. Anybody remember that soviet ridiculous laser tank that was supposed to blind people? Maybe time to dust that idea off.

Quote from Toad

I’m sure drones have our war planners lying awake at night.

Sending 100 tanks that cost $15 million each into battle and having them all wiped out by 3-400 drones that cost maybe $200 each tops is going to be a significant tactical consideration.

The times they are a changin’

Most of a Strategic Airlift Wing could be destroyed right now, from a Waffle House parking lot, by 1 guy with a pickup and off-the-shelf engineering.

It's 1 mile. It could be done with 3d printed drones we were playing with in 2009. Nowadays the average racing multirotor drones are 20mph faster than they were then, with world records around 230mph. I had (I killed it) an 80" fixed wing fpv drone with gps, laser altimeter, etc, using a system called Ardupilot that could fly 15 miles away on 433mhz controls + return to home on signal loss that would only need a minor refit for modern electronics to be a pretty good artillery spotter. I have a 100" model called an Anaconda which I'm fairly sure has seen action in Ukraine, it can haul cameras for 2 hours on retrofitted laptop batteries.

Given the size of an RPG-7 round and a swing-arm drone body to accomodate it, you can pack probably 300 of pnuematic launch tubes in the back of a pickup truck, 15 wide x 20 deep. That should be sufficient to make every aircraft their combat ineffective. Even easy to make them talk on wifi at that range and divide up targets using their machine vision.

Quote from Username

They are 100 percent against unions even in Germany. I will say this from what I have seen of the plants in Germany, they take really good care of their people.

Not even remotely close to true. They're heavily organized, significantly unionized, and virtually all of the automotive industry labor there is covered by collective bargaining agreements.

Quote from slamfire

And you really want the squawking 3 piece Thai band playing the chicken choking music. It's all about the atmosphere of tradition.

and the occasional drunk westerner getting in the ring in khaki shorts and getting slaughtered by some guy that's been fighting pro since he was 7.

Shed Tank Part II - Electric Boogaloo

Drone footage released by Russian sources shows the return of the infamous Russian Shed Tank during an assault near Krasnohorivka. Now, we might not like it,…

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can drone machine vision recognize something that looks like a Hetzer?

Quote from Gina

You guys hearing this? That I ran is expected to attack The US and Israel in some manner in retaliation for the Israeli strike on their embassy.

Consulate. They blew up Iran's consulate in Lebanon to kill one of the heads of Quds Force. Not unlike when Trump had Solemiani smoked, except instead of a car they attacked a normally immune to hostilities diplomatic center.

The pizza party doesn't go as far as it used to.

Quote from Elf Man

While technically that is true, it is also true that forcing someone to choose between getting vaxxed or losing your job is an act of coercion.

Welcome to employing people lol. Sometimes you have to coerce them into shit they don't want to do just because you give them money to do it.

The rise of the drainpipe drone. An actual piece of drainage pipe with an RC engine and reinforced cardboard wings and tail surfaces, packed with fuel and explosives.

I loved Falcon 4 Allied Force.

this has me curious:

And exactly what Lewis did was use his height and weight to lay on him, get him tired, and knock him out. You could see Tysons frustration building through the fight.

In a 2 minute fight, I'd take it. I'd last oh, 15 seconds, and wake up paid. Beats getting choked out for free.

Quote from Shuckins

Name the boxers who have handed Tyson his head.

Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, Razor Ruddock probably would have had him in the late rounds,

Pretty big hole to swallow 3 APC.