✧✦Catherine✦✧remember when other countries have been reverse-engineering american drones?
well, apparently in 2026 americans are reverse-engineering and reproducing Iranian drones
anyway if you come into possession of american shahed bits please send some to me. i'm an equal opportunity reverse engineer
Christian Huitema@whitequark And the Shahed drone is itself largely based on reverse engineering a US Sentinel drone...
Andre Weissflog@whitequark @huitema akschually: it's based on a German design from the 80's, which then got copied by Israel, which then got copied by Iran, which then got copied by Russia, which then got copied by the US:
The Sentinel-reverse-engineered Shahed 171 is an entirely different thing than the low-cost Shahed 136 (e.g. Shahed is just the company name):
@floooh @whitequark Armies have copied the weapons of other armies for a very long time. For example, the Romans copied Celtic helmets, and also Celtic swrods... Some things never change.
truh@whitequark have you seen the 3D printed diy MANPADS?
@truh the firmware is full of slop, so i'm not sure how much to trust the mechanical design (in which i'm far from an expert). could be good, could be very much not
ftg@whitequark @truh
My personal opinion and those of folks who know more than me seem to be that it's mostly a LARP build trying to get a job in the industry.
Few ESP32 cam's for targeting and then backhauling that info to the missile via 2.4GHz wifi.
The rocket motors also did not look very good and all launches and tests were cut VERY short to hide how bad it went.
But definitely a conversation starter.
My personal opinion and those of folks who know more than me seem to be that it's mostly a LARP build trying to get a job in the industry.
Few ESP32 cam's for targeting and then backhauling that info to the missile via 2.4GHz wifi.
The rocket motors also did not look very good and all launches and tests were cut VERY short to hide how bad it went.
But definitely a conversation starter.
@whitequark @truh
Especially when one compares the amount of launch footage in something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xEx2EQIPD4
Slightly unfair comparison, as it's a team here.
Especially when one compares the amount of launch footage in something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xEx2EQIPD4
Slightly unfair comparison, as it's a team here.
