alt Hacker NewsLooking at the video, the cable looks ... fragile. Would a large bird landing on it do the same amount of damage?
Shouldn't it be thick, armoured cable, attached to a strong wire or something?
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venturecruelty • yesterday at 11:29 PM
Shouldn't drones run by trillion-dollar companies not crash into stuff?
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It is a standard outdoor coaxial cable. Perhaps it looks thin because you are mentally scaling to the size of smaller hobby drones.
Edit: The MK30 is 78 pounds, and about 6 feet diameter. Here is an image with a human for scale:
https://dronexl.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Amazon-Prime-A...