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Downed Russian Shahed Drone Was Found With a Ukrainian SIM Card: Think Tank
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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What's special about them? Seem like pretty basic drones.
The fibreglass lifting body immediately makes it more than your basic drone. Granted it's not exactly rocket science, but you still need to get the shape right, make a giant mandrel, fit all those panels and doors together nicely. And then you need to figure out a production line that makes it cheap enough to mass produce them -- after all, they get exploded.
Just imagine they used all of those tools and skills to make sailboats instead. Or still in the drone form-factor, have them circle events with a 5g cell relay on them or something. War sucks but it pays salaries, sadly.
A sailboat is probably way easier to build. Just more laborious.