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What drone is OP getting that it's only $35? I don't think I've seen them from anything less than about $200 and a good one is about $500 to $700
kamicaze drones are pretty cheap
Analog fpv drone is at least €150 when produced on a mass scale. Parts alone.
This is nowhere near 35 bucks cheap.
But those FPV drones have to be reusable. A kamikaze drone only needs to last long enough to get to the target. Motors, batteries, etc don’t need to have long lifetimes. Think about how cheap the battery can be if it doesn’t need to be rechargeable. If the motor needs at most 5 hours of runtime?
Even if they have a 10% spontaneous failure rate of they’re 30% the price it’d still be worth it.
It won't make much of a difference. They put rechargeable batteries in disposable vapes because it isn't worth it to manufacture non-rechargeable batteries, even though the batteries would be technically cheaper, the specialized manufacturing process would be more expensive.
This is wendys.
of course it's not that cheap, but still pretty cheap
Yes, precisely right. When compared to military precission weapons. That start at tens of thousands.
And I gave as real of a number as possible, so there are no idiots thinking an fpv drone costs 35 bucks. Even if it has to fly once.
It's called a grenade?
the drone pictured is a mavic 3 so at least $3000
This particular one is the Mavic 3 pro, indeed around that price with the accessories. It's what I fly for work.
I don't know all the specific models and everything, but I do know drone warfare has been a pretty big deal and so has trying to make the cheapest ones possible. Here's a good video on the topic: https://youtu.be/V3eOjRhihLU
You aren't looking at the same shit. There are extremely high tech drones that are huge and designed for long term use. These aren't those. These are made as cheaply as they possibly can with one single goal: get this explosive to it's destination. They are single flight devices.
I've flown a number of drones and the best drone I've flown that clocks in under ÂŁ100 is a tiny-whoop and they're absolutely not fit for combat lol.
I really hope that "tiny-whoop" is its official name
Tiny-whoop more reffers to a class of FPVs rather than any specific drone. They're small enough to be flown around indoors and typically weigh in at under 25g TOM. I guess you could use one for surveillance or scoping out a building in the field but defo not for combat lol
I'm honestly getting confused by this thread now with how many of you are talking about frankly unrelated stuff. These aren't for "combat" so much as they are for flying an explosive to a target one time and not surviving. The article used a generic picture.