• PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works
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    15 days ago

    The Tech Ingredients YouTube channel just managed to make one of these, so surely there ought to be effective ones for military applications by now

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPM
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      15 days ago

      The article isn’t clear on the max range, but the tests seem to have been done at ~1 km, that’s doesn’t seem viable for military applications.

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        15 days ago

        Depends on the purpose. If it’s to take out suicide drones attacking vehicles, 1km gives it a good amount of lead time to track and fire at incoming drones. For longer range surveillance drones, probably not as effective

      • PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works
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        14 days ago

        No, I merely meant that if two dudes can build a working example in a garage, there’s no way that there aren’t some really beefy ones in an MoD weapons lab somewhere