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pramyesterday at 11:40 PM3 repliesview on HN

I think our navy is mostly designed for prestige too, but it seems like you could use the current carriers to transport like a million disposable drones?


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lmmtoday at 4:30 AM

> it seems like you could use the current carriers to transport like a million disposable drones?

To what end? You can use them as an extremely expensive cargo ship, sure. But if you're talking about launching drones off of our carriers, you have the problem that whatever you are in drone range of is also in drone range of you.

ojbyrnetoday at 4:25 AM

Not a lot of prestige in that.

shiroiumatoday at 12:32 AM

Drones have limited range. Perhaps a submarine would be better: sneak close to your target, raise a pipe from the sub to the surface, then launch a bunch of drones from it.

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