Comment by fennecfoxy

1 million *overpriced drones. Ah, military contracts.

Hilarious when someone with decent maker experience can plug shit together in a shed to easily make a hunter-killer drone these days. Just missing the explosives.

The war in Ukraine has proved that even basic commercial drones work very well with an explosive practically duct taped to them. There's certainly the issue of "military equipment gets more extensive testing", but capitalism has answered that somewhat; defective products are extremely bad for corporations and I do wonder if the failure rate of modern electronics approaches that of some military hardware specs (though not necessarily in ruggedness).