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russia is literally putting cope cages on their navy ships, are we living in a satire? (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But the lack of manpower constraints has increased scale massively. Before swarms required risk of life. Now it requires dudes on remote controls sitting "safely".

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't agree with this, you need a massive amount of ground crews to distribute shaheds and launch them.

Further, there is a big topic of discussion in unmanned vehicle design about how to manage more than a small number of drones as a human overseer. You can say "make it all automated" and wave your hands but those weapons are going to be stiff, unreactive and easily flankable along infinite dimensions by actual human pilots using FPV drones and such.

A swarm of HUMAN PILOTED drones is terrifying, but that is in large part because you brought together a bunch of highly trained human beings who are all extremely motivated to accomplish an objective together.

I am not saying the point you are making is totally wrong, I am saying it is nuanced and the failure of the russian navy here is far deeper than just failing to properly protect against drones.