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.
Cardboard isn’t particularly structural.
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?
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.