• linearchaos@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I mean why not, Light, structural. They’re not going to stand up to any damage taken no matter what they make them out of they’re just not big enough

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        11 months ago

        It’s also cheap. Shitty suicide drones can be made for less than 1000$, why bother wasting expensive materials that don’t improve success rates?

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          11 months ago

          The cheap moving boxes I have, can carry at least 25 kilogram. That is about 75 cans of 330ml cans of soda. How is that not structural?

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            11 months ago

            The cheap 3d printed drone I made can carry two soda cans, all I have to do to increase that is increase the overall size, or just the motors and add structural rigidity with pretty much any lightweight straight material. At that size even a steel rod would greatly increase rigidity while adding insignificant (for the purposes of I/ED carrying drones) weight.

            Heck, my last rc place would easily fly with nearly 7lbs, and I could maybe push that to 10 if I swapped for a higher power motor. By my napkin math, that’s 8 blocks of M112 packaged C4, and I’m not sure how much damage 10lbs of C4 could do, but I know a single M112 can take out small bridges and level an average American sized house.

            I guess my point is, you don’t need super strong materials, because small amounts of explosive will do. But it doesn’t matter because you can still make strong drones cheap.