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Yep, bingo on that. Birdshot is the current SOP for Russian forces, and see how well that's worked for them.

It is the most sobering realization to me that in all likelihood, if I were in a public place and an attack of this nature were to be enacted, my life would likely be forfeit. It's why I have to shamefully admit I don't go to many public places like shopping centers or malls.

A friend of mine builds FPV drones as a hobby, as well. If you've got them know-how, theyre incredibly cheap and easy to make. So you can't just flag drive purchases, but motors, wiring, 3d printer filaments, anything that can be used to make homebrew kamikaze drones.

I don't believe this is entirely true. One can obtain lots of sensitive info from Webkit exploits and app-specific exploits, without ever touching iCloud. Alexa app is one such example. It can access your camera and mic without you knowing.

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I don't agree with you on this. But that's all right. Seems like you do not live in the post-communism (post-Soviet) country to actually know how bad communism can be. And no it was not because of capitalist intervention.

How do you like the Vector 3?

So while this is possible, I'm not quite convinced. Having owned a few cheaper FPV drones, and having a friend who is pretty deep in the hobby, I can say that it's not easy, but it's not a skill any more difficult to learn then good marksmanship, and it's a very innocuous one to learn with purchases that won't raise any red flags. A years time (the time since these drones started being used in combat) is plenty of time to learn how to reliably ram an FPV drone in roughly the area you want.

Your communism likely failed due to direct capitalist intervention and/or greedy despotic leadership. Communism has a much better chance in succeeding, capitalism/ democracy has none.

Can someone please copy and paste the article? I really don't want to sign up unless someone can provide a compelling reason.

I also have the Tacx Neo 2T.

I will say, Garmin has incredible service. I’ve bought the vector 3 and fenix used. I got both of them replaced under warranty through Garmin. Don’t be afraid to buy used, it’s saved me a ton of money.

It’s surprising we haven’t seen any drone terrorist attacks or assassinations yet, apart from the middle east

I’m sure they do, they can also stop lone gunman easily- but this is America and there are lots of people stroking guns without actionable intentions. Thank god for Netflix and door dash- our new opiates

I gotta get on your level! Daaaamn, that’s a sweet ecosystem of tools!

I agree with this. I’ve changed from Apple to full Garmin and what Connect does and aggregates is awesome. I have Fenix 7x, Index S2 smart scale, Vector 3 dual sided pedals, Edge 1030+ and HRM Pro+, the ability to combine all the data from each device in one area, track weight and BF% as well as FTP and Watts per kilo is very cool.

Edit: and Neo 2T trainer (doesn’t connect with Connect App)

FPV pilot (recreational) here.

The reason you don't see more FPV drones used in attacks is that they are quite difficult to fly, and as such skilled enough pilots are relatively hard to come by.

I am fairly certain that the FPV drone attacks we are watching are from people who were pilots before the war and are using the skills they already have.

Communism on the other hands does not work either and from the past experience of my country I can say it is in fact way worse than capitalism.

So which ideology actually works?

The quest 2 was $300 for the longest time. $300-$600 is within the realm of a fancy christmas/birthday gift to keep the kids entertained. $3000 is not.

A few years ago there was a choreographed drone display during the Super Bowl halftime show. I was horrified. If we can pre-program these cheap drones to dance around the sky, someone is going to pre-program a swarm armed with rudimentary explosive devices. The idea that some guy can buy these online, arm them, program each with an individual target, and launch dozens or hundreds out the back of a Uhaul is fucking terrifying. We need jammers. We need countermeasures. We probably need a watch list for people buying large numbers of these things.

Best they could give us in Afghanistan in 2016 was a Mossberg 500 and some birdshot. That shit was probably futile then, it almost certainly is now.

I recall training the entire US for a nuke attack tho. It was in all the schools.

Because terrorists aren’t as common as the government leads you to believe

I dunno. In the 1950s a corporation couldn’t create a militarized army of combat drones and operate them from space…

So I have about 6 or 7 dongles & 1 dock. None of satisfied me, prove me that theres a perfect dock

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