• @rumba@lemmy.zip
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    19•2 months ago

    I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. Drones are cheap. Automating their flight is a super solved problem. At some point every cop car will have a drone on demand that can pop out and follow. They’ll launch some slow movers with big blades and just have them patrol. 30-40 minute flights.

      • @chunes@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        The maximum viable elevation that you can hit a target at with a shotgun is ~40m, or ~55m with a very tight choke. Drones can comfortably operate much higher than that. I guess it might work from the roof of a skyscraper though.

    • iuminou
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      4•2 months ago

      time to deploy our own counter-drone drones