Solana Beach company is making suicide drones

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The future of warfare, again powering our local economy.

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/04/meet-phoenix-ghost-the-us-air-forces-new-drone-designed-for-ukraines-war-with-russia/

Russia and Ukraine have giant stockpiles of old weapons, and Eastern European allies like Slovakia and Poland are also donating all their old Soviet equipment.

So this is less of a modern war than you’d see elsewhere. But still drones are highly important.

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Was talking to one of my neighbors yesterday that owns a machine shop in town that makes custom parts for military/defense. He told me about this and they are making parts for them.

[Coronita]

https://www.businessinsider.com/video-ukraine-soldier-disassembles-russian-drone-reveals-unsopisticated-handiwork-2022-4

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[quote=Coronita]https://www.businessinsider.com/video-ukraine-soldier-disassembles-russian-drone-reveals-unsopisticated-handiwork-2022-4[/quote]

Have we entered the dronezone?

[svelte]

“suicide drone” sounds like a modern buzzword name for “guided missile”.

[sdrealtor]

A missile goes one way and has nowhere near the navigation capabilities. A drone can fly in assess a situation and then redirect and complete its mission based up data collection. It’s next level effective

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[quote=sdrealtor]A missile goes one way and has nowhere near the navigation capabilities. A drone can fly in assess a situation and then redirect and complete its mission based up data collection. It’s next level effective[/quote]

“In military terminology,[1] a missile is a guided airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight usually by a jet engine or rocket motor. Missiles are thus also called guided missiles or guided rockets (when in rocket form). Missiles have five system components: targeting, guidance system, flight system, engine and warhead.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile

Modern missiles can also redirect after launch.

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Missiles can’t loiter waiting and searching for a target, and come home if they don’t find one.

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