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Consumer-grade drones and RC ground vehicles becoming a major part of a war between regular armies.

• culopatin 3y ago
  Why is this exciting?
  • eliasmacpherson 3y ago
    Here's some old thoughts on the matter of small firearms written by someone long ago: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/you-and-the-atom-bomb/ https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
  • mmh0000 3y ago
    To be faiiirrrrr, the Ask HN was "most interesting," not "most exciting". And it is very interesting watching the smaller (comparatively) country of Ukraine hold their own against a much much larger force in large part by using $50 Walmart drones with a grenade duct-taped on. The large-scale use of cheap drones is going to change warfare tactics forever. It also leads to a bunch of fascinating anti-drone weapons, and then, of course, drones that can evade or are immune to such weapons will follow.
  • bad_alloc 3y ago
    From what I heard it is very exciting for tank crews, but not necessarily in a good way.