• stupidcasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Aren’t hypersonic missiles just hypersonic suicide drones? Like the entire point of drone’s is that they are cheap, this has no purpose.

          • Mirshe@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2 months

            Plus all the shock absorption for the lense. And the avionics if you don’t plan to just have this thing drop film into a predetermined area (like the old Keyhole sats or the U-2).

  • toiletobserver@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Homer: There’s the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way.

    Bart: Isn’t the Max Power way the wrong way?

    Homer: Yes, but faster.

  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2 months

    At what point does it stop being a drone and become an unmanned aircraft?

      • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2 months

        You’re right, but it seems like a poor word for it, not specific enough. Might as well just call it a machine. Drone should be reserved for small and cheapish uavs. Above that they would just be uav and then things like this would be unmanned aircaft.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2 months

          Drone has been used for unmanned full sized aircraft since at least WW2. The first flight of the Interstate TDR was in 1942.