Posted on 12/01/2025 7:34:15 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
China's new low-altitude economy is taking off with flying taxis and food delivery drones, but the industry faces obstacles, including strict airspace controls.
In the neighboring city of Shenzhen, food-delivery drones have become an integral part of everyday life and serve as a unique tourist attraction, despite the premium pricing for such services. At the waterfront park encircled by towering skyscrapers, Polish visitor Karolina Trzciańska and her companions placed a phone order for bubble tea and lemon tea, simply to experience the novelty.
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Practice makes perfect.
Prepare to meet your new Chinese overlords.
Stopping Russia now will slow China for a long time.
(flying taxis)
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A small drone can take an image of a battlefield.
The image can be displayed on a large screen.
A man with a mouse can drag a mouse to a desired target and clinic.
A rocket or mortar shell can be sent a copy of the target portion of the image and sent on its way.
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When I owned and operated a pizzeria in Inkster, Michigan in 1979, I hand-drew on our menu/flyers a helicopter lowering a pizza to a snowed-in household with the caption “Fast Free Delivery.” Little did I know at the time how prophetic that would turn out to be.
Why am I thinking fire drill?
Sound triangulation devices can be dropped on a battlefield.
If an enemy soldier fires, their location can be calculated and the soldier (or their remote-control weapon) can be taken out.
Good luck with that.
—”mortar shell can be sent a copy”
A 4 duce (heavy iron) might reach out about 8 klicks (5miles).
A 60mm that we often carried, maybe 3 klicks.
A fiber-controlled drones are reported to make 20 klicks ONEWAY unloaded, and maybe 10 klicks with a small gift.
And targets are seldom static, especially after the first incoming, requiring an FO.
Flying taxis take flight in front of a US crowd for the first time as 2 companies race to take on passengers
Oh brother, quadcopters aren’t going to do much when they get shot down by auto aiming flak cannons. Not to mention they give a larger radar cross section then their actual size so we know where they are coming from. More “we need cheap stuff in mass because everything expensive is too complicated and I don’t trust the government”
Used to be public safety could coexist with a free society.
—”Sound triangulation devices can be dropped on a battlefield.”
If it puts out EMF, it is easily located, so it needs a tail...
New to me:
“The range of the Shoulder-Worn Acoustic Targeting System (SWATS) is from 50 meters to 700 meters. Within this range, it can detect hostile gunfire and pinpoint the shooter’s location, though accuracy degrades slightly beyond 700 meters. The system automatically ignores sounds from shots fired below 50 meters to prevent false alarms from friendly fire. ~700 m max.”
And counter-battery radar, heavy iron for incoming arty and mortars.
My favorite back then was the Vulcan!
Oh baby, a radar-guided 20mm mounted on an APC.
Up there with it: a DUSTER; pulled my chestnuts out of the fire a few times, but lacks the radar.
You could sleep soundly with one nearby until it fires up.
Practice, practice, practice...
Chinese Team Controls over 10,000 Drones with Single Computer in Dazzling Display
https://youtu.be/KxFR5zVNIqY?si=2iIG5_yBZq_m6Qnt
—”Good luck with that.”
“There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent,” Lao Tzu, some old Chinese guy.
That and our crapy school system...
And maybe the FREE STUFF for the lazy system, oh but the vote!!!
A nice find!!!
” California companies “
There is hope.
A light spot in a dark horizon.
I did study Mandarin when I was in Taiwan, but I forgot most and lost my hearing in RVN.
Still flexible and could KOWTOW IF NEEDED?
—”Oh brother, quadcopters aren’t going to do much when they get shot down by auto aiming flak cannons.”
As noted above, I have been up close and personal with an APC-mounted Vulcan.
A large heat signature and a small drone can pass undetected with an RPG minus the rocket...Why they are not used by UA or russia.
How long ago and what kind/how big of a drone? That corrects the second half of what I said for detection at longer distances. Not the part you quoted. They auto target on visuals over a mile away, radar in the traditional sense is more for prior detection IF you are right. We, the USA, are certainly installing the cannons I am talking about.
Difficult to pin down, UA had over 200 m113 and reported one lost to a drone strike.
The russian btr has a similar use and has lost many, often the drone lays a mine on the trail ahead or smashes a mine into the btr.
APCs’ aluminum armor was meant for small arms fire, they are not heavy armor. I have some small scars to prove it.
The btr uses steel.
Small FPV drones often deploy RPG heads.
Unsure how drone sizes are classified?
The large person-moving device IMO, would be an easy target for an infantry unit.30 MG with lots of T&E.
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