SylenThunder
Community Moderator / IT Guru
Actually.....
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2227168-turkey-is-getting-military-drones-armed-with-machine-guns/
And from even earlier.....
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40901393
PC The drone looks nice, but...
- Thread starter Viktoriusiii
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2227168-turkey-is-getting-military-drones-armed-with-machine-guns/
And from even earlier.....
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40901393
warmer
Well-known member
Context is everything. We were talking about the drones in the US operations around the world, and consumer sized drones. Those guys are the size of a large dishwasher.SylenThunder said:
Point of comparison is the drone in game. That's probable 18" across or so. But I do give you that yes they exists, just not in the form we were discussing.
Morloc
Arch Necromancer
Jost Amman said:I doubt it'll ever be possible (unless they limit the range) since you could send it to points on the map where the chunks have been unloaded because you're too far away.hwell:
Just place the drone's contents into an accumulator that doesn't actually dump its contents until someone enters the target chunk. You would need to do a calculation for how long the drone would be tied up for the round-trip, but even a rough estimate would be fine for most people.
We don't actually need to witness the drone opening the dumpster lid, and in the majority of cases nobody would be around to see it.
-Arch Necromancer Morloc
Nitpicking your nitpick: ViktoriusIII, who you replied to, talked about "military" without specifying the country and I know he is not from the US. Though his reference of 2010 is a bit early for the current turkish drones, they exist now and represent current tech as well as any drone developed by US military
Both drones shown in the articles are the first generation of a new weapon class. I'm sure you can shrink that format measureably with time, especially if you trade away range and caliber to decrease mass and size. Look at the US drone, it still uses a normal assault rifle made for a human! Once this weapon class is in mass production it will use tailormade weapons.
warmer
Well-known member
We are talking about US military drones and the drones currently in game. I mean we can keep widening the goal posts to include anything you want, but everyone in the original exchange understood the context. loL
I'm sure you can show me a quote that shows that everyone, especially ViktoriusIII who seems to be the only one mentioning "military" at all was talking about US drones, right?
The argument was about what current tech is (for drones) and what is Scifi tech. Now if the turkish military has shown such a drone I'm sure the US military won't call it Scifi tech either. So there are no goal posts moved unless you think the turkish military is decades ahead in drone tech.
warmer
Well-known member
uhhh we were talking about drones in active military use in 2010 that were common knowledge.I'm sure you can show me a quote that shows that everyone, especially ViktoriusIII who seems to be the only one mentioning "military" at all was talking about US drones, right?
The argument was about what current tech is (for drones) and what is Scifi tech. Now if the turkish military has shown such a drone I'm sure the US military won't call it Scifi tech either. So there are no goal posts moved unless you think the turkish military is decades ahead in drone tech.
Maybe you can show anything other than US Drones in active use in 2010. OR maybe you can ask ViktoriusIII which ones they were referring to. lol
Jost Amman
Well-known member
Yes. But nobody has yet been able to develop the Teddy Bear mod... oh, well, I guess that's like talking about sci-fi.
hwell:
Since Teddy Bears were inspired by Teddy Roosevelt I think it must be steam punkYes. But nobody has yet been able to develop the Teddy Bear mod... oh, well, I guess that's like talking about sci-fi.
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Isreael and 1982, 22kg drone. https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/How-Israel-became-a-leader-in-drone-technology-595209
(I don't know when it became "common" knowledge, but I would say 30-40 years is a long time to keep something secret.)
Viktoriusiii said:
Here is the quote from Victorious, where does it say common knowledge? Since we are talking about moving goal posts.
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SnowDog1942
Navezgane's Perv
Roland said:I'm pretty sure the zombies are completely unaware of the drone so it doesn't factor at all in whether they notice you or not.
Heh...heh... The funny thing is that for YEARS people asked for the devs to please allow them to push the shopping cart around and be able to fill it with loot. So the devs give us what amounts to a shopping cart and everybody wants it to shoot or shock enemies too.
What happened with being happy with a loot cart?
I think the fact that the shopping cart is a (supposedly high level?) INT Gadget is the problem
Look no further
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BFT2020
Well-known member
Yes, but this is a high tech shopping cart that can heal you automatically if you use a certain amount of HP.
warmer
Well-known member
uhhh ARMED drones in active military use are the topic at had. That is purely for recon. There isn't a single mention of any weaponry on that thing.
How about you ask Vik what they meant instead of arguing with me. This is pointless lol
Oh right, my bad. With long running discussions one can get confused and forgetful.
Naturally this is pointless. Your nitpick was, my nitpick of your nitpick as well, and our discussion which nitpick is less grounded in reality.
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