love to see tax money being wasted on bullshit while people die due to lack of healthcare
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.
Aren’t hypersonic missiles just hypersonic suicide drones? Like the entire point of drone’s is that they are cheap, this has no purpose.
Spying.
So take the boom boom out and put on a much lighter camera.
Lenses are shockingly heavy. It balances out.
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).
At what point does it stop being a drone and become an unmanned aircraft?
That is what a drone is.
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.
Drone has been used for unmanned full sized aircraft since at least WW2. The first flight of the Interstate TDR was in 1942.
Drone should be reserved for small and cheapish uavs.
why? drone is not a specific term either.
