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To: Spktyr
They aren’t hard to spin up [...]

Do you mean "to scale up?"

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25 posted on 05/26/2025 1:20:12 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Negative. We have no suitable air drone factories in the US to actually scale up. We would have to create new ones. However, as Ukraine and the Houthis have demonstrated, it’s not actually terribly hard to make an first person drone - they’re sold as childrens’ toys for basic models these days, after all - but if you don’t have the chips and in this case the batteries and motors to make one fly, you’re not getting anywhere. We don’t have the chips.


27 posted on 05/26/2025 3:42:15 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: alexander_busek

Correction: It’s not hard to make a plant to crank out first person drones. You can have one going within a month if you have parts supplies.


28 posted on 05/26/2025 3:43:04 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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