The Netherlands used to be a swamp. It still is, but it used to too.

Really it’s on me

2D is that you???

After Starmer, what’s left of trust in Labour or its leaders?

Ha, joke’s on them!

I also got bullied at school

Marine Corps and Blackwater, a paramilitary group known for their crimes against humanity.

I actually considered getting a couple maps like that lol. Nostalgia, but also redundancy. Also it would be kind of funny to fold out one of those giant maps while everyone else just whips up google maps. We’re going retro, bitches.

A helicopter is extremely expensive to maintain and fuel, requires an extensive logistics network and has significant downtimes for maintenance, and it’s a pretty big target

When you could feasibly build something at the fraction of any of those costs and use that. Like an actual platform.

Again, helicopters have their place in the modern battlefield but you’re strapping toys to a Rolls Royce. I know the US has infinite Military budget because they starve the population of everything it needs to live but the numbers don’t add up lol

And already land-launched drones can strike thousands of miles into Russia, why do you feel the need to strap these things to some of the most expensive gear you have when they’re already performing just fine without them? What’s the actual point?

Right. It’s cheap, which enhances a drone’s biggest strength dramatically (being cheap to produce). It’s fit for the environment it is in (contested airspace) and it is easily and readily deployed.

Putting drones on helicopters is just… it is so expensive to put a helicopter in the air when you can just send up a platform or anything like it, even from the ground, for a fraction of the cost of one helicopter taking off. And losing a platform or a bunch of drones is infinitely cheaper than losing a helicopter.

This is not me saying helicopters have no place in a modern battlefield. They do. But slapping a drone on it and calling it a day is lazy and dumb.

Aircraft carriers significantly extend the range of planes. I fail to see how a helicopter would do this, other than ‘it can fly closer to the frontlines’ I guess. But like I said, if Ukraine can fly drones and cheap missiles thousands of miles into Russia, what the hell is a helicopter launch going to add to that except insane costs lol.

Finally, a chance for redemption for Elon’s hyperloop!

… why tho. You can just launch them from the ground for free when taking off with helicopters costs a fuckton of money?

Are they trying to reinvent drone warfare when Ukraine sort of has it figured out already?

Lemmy is great because you keep running into people like you who dump all sorts of tips and tricks like this

Please never apologize for sharing like this, it is what makes us human and it is always a delight to share in the joy of sharing and learning.

Oh that’s just Kyle, he’s from another dimension, he likes to fuck with people. Kind of an asshole.

I’m sure parents will be thrilled to send their 12 year olds into the mines

I don’t know who to believe in this until some independent body shows evidence, but I do know the Americans are incompetent enough to hit their own allies with malfunctioning equipment. So it’s definitely a possibility.

I do the same thing sometimes when customers are persistent lol

I have met some celebrities. Didn’t know a single one of them. Have been absolutely uneventful in these conversations. I did get the ‘Hey I used to work here you know!’ a couple times at my current job at a supermarket. Which is always funny because our turnover is insane so like, yea, you and a thousand other people who tf cares, I’m not looking in the back for your apple juice sir.

Why are you trying to cross the field with the Ball when you can just use a trebuchet, arguably the best siege weapon?