• Canaconda@lemmy.caOP
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    11 days ago

    Air burst rounds may take out 99.9%, but that still leaves a lot of damage occurring.

    This is literally how war is playing out right now. I can’t take you seriously.

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      11 days ago

      Why are you obsessed with the fact that counter UAV solutions aren’t 100% effective?

      Nothing is 100% effective?

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        11 days ago

        Exactly. And that’s the entire point. If the human success rate is (just for example) 1 out of every 100, I only have so many pilots, so I have a capped number of successes. If I have AI pilots, even if they are only half as good as humans, I can now increase my total number of successes, since I have effectively an infinite number of pilots.

        That ability to bring more at once also opens more options. Overwhelming defenses may not be possible if you can only fly 1000 drones simultaneously due to quantity of pilots. Throw 10,000 AI drones at it, and a 99% attrition rate still gets you 100 drones on target.

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          11 days ago

          You have done the pattern again of invoking an infinity with hand waving. 10,000 drones is an immense amount of money. If each of those drones cost $2000, a very reasonable price for a military attack drone, that is $20 million you just dropped on a single attack.

          $20 million is a serious amount of money, you can buy a whole lot of counter UAS systems for that amount of money, and those systems aren’t a single use, disposable tool like the assault drones you dumped all of your money into.

          A shahed costs closer to ~$30,000 than $2000 so this point holds even more true for longer range flying bombs.

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            11 days ago

            Considering modern militaries throw around missiles that cost north of a $1,000,000 each, $20,000,000 for 100 successful strikes on a defended target is still operating with a discount.

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        11 days ago

        Nothing is 100% effective?

        Oh now you’re okay with things not being perfect? fuck buddy lmao. Youre being ridiculous.