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Why are you hyperfocusing on the Sauron part? Look how white and pure Shadowfax is!!

Surely we aren't the baddies!

https://defence-blog.com/israeli-firm-develops-shadowfax-drone-with-sauron-turret/

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[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Guys, we should all write to the Tolkien Estate to denounce the use of names from the Lord of the Rings for weapons and tools of mass surveillance. Let's all write a letter condemning this and asking them to do something aboutit.

The Tolkien Estate

c/o Curtis Brown Heritage

Cunard House

15 Regent Street

London

SW1Y 4LR

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 21 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Are they fucking serious?

When is the Tolkien estate going to sue all these companies like Palantir and shit for using LOTR names for weapons and surveillance systems meant to subjugate and kill people?

[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 29 minutes ago

Just imagine what would happen if that was the Pikachu drone with a BOWSER turret

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 4 hours ago

When they're finally convinced it's hurting The Brand™

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 36 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"We've created a real life version of the torment nexus from the famous book Never Create The Torment Nexus"

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 13 points 7 hours ago

Kids this is why we make you read fiction in school and challenge you to analyze it critically.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 36 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

These mf watched LOTR (of course they wouldn't read a book), and side with the personification of pure evil.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

One of the biggest US companies works closely with the US intelligence industry and DoD to provide them very in-depth surveillance, facial recognition, customer tracking via payment systems, and AI-assisted target acquisition systems and many highly concerning privacy-invading tools.

They call themselves Palantir.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Literally actually yes. Thiel and his ilk think Sauron just didn't have enough focus on PR.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 6 points 5 hours ago

At least the name Palantir is appropriately sinister for the technology. Using the name Shadowfax for a combat drone just feels wrong. It would be more tolerable if it was an especially fast scout or something.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 6 hours ago

Show me the meaning of hate, Shadowfax.

[–] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 6 points 6 hours ago

Palantir was one thing, but Shadowfax is going too far

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Love how the gun is a perfectly normal AR with grips, sights, stocks and everything kinda just strapped on there

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

We have entered the era of drone technicals. Behold the future of warfare.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Isn’t this basically Ukraine? The original grenade drop drones just used off the shelf drones and actuated the grenade stop with the light switch.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Why is it holding the rifle Aussie-style?

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 1 points 3 hours ago

What with the drum magazine it seems easier to change the magazine if the gun is upside down. I'm just surised they didn't use a bullpup.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Less chance of jamming, that is why some early machine guns had top feeds/magazines, gravity and stuff you know.

The reason humans dont do this is they have more chance of jamming upside down so it cancels out.

[–] wedge@multiverse.soulism.net 5 points 7 hours ago

I can’t tell if the names or satire or real and honestly… ffs lol

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

What is non-credible about this?

[–] J92@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

So its got 30 odd rounds then you get a load of free and expensive hardware to keep once you tip it over?

They probably stick explosives in it too.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago

This thing looks way more scuffed than the ones that the Ukrainians are fielding.