Iran claimed to have shot one Reaper down during U.S. strikes on Tuesday.
  • cobwoms
    26·
    10 days ago

    shooting down a drone doesn’t even harm anybody. in fact, you can only save lives by shooting it down

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
      9·
      10 days ago

      Yeah I love that I can just fully cheer for them to be shot down and I don’t have to feel bad that soldiers are dying.

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
      2·
      9 days ago

      Well, the only harm I see is that the US will then take more money from healthcare and education to build more drones.

      How much does each of there drones cost in taxpayer $?

      Update: unverified comments below say > $15 million per drone. That’s a lot of kids with cancer that won’t get cured

      • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 days ago

        ~5 million meals for hungry people per drone ($3/meal will be a little lean, but probably enough for a sandwich and some veggies). 150,000,000 meals in just this.

    • Akh@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 days ago

      Yep, the us has demonstrated to the world how combat ineffective they are against a remotely developed country

      • Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 days ago

        Our issue is that we have lots of bombs and no stomach at all for boots on the ground. (The last part is a good thing in my book). Hard to be effective with our politics and MIC

        • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
          3·
          9 days ago

          Boots on the ground is worthless without air superiority, your positions will just get bombed/shelled constantly. The US has been unable to achieve that without assistance like it had in Iraq.

          Small drones just make it that much harder since they can evade conventional anti-air defenses.