20581

Thanks for the update, and thank you for hosting them. 10 people in a house sounds like a lot! I salute you!

20582

Thanks for sharing, you are doing an incredibly nice thing!

20583

Incredibly kind of you.

20584

Thank you for helping these people, and if you do set up a Gofundme, be sure to let me know.

20585

Wow…amazingly giving and caring.

20586

Wow, I’m glad that it’s been working out so well for everyone involved. Good for you!

20587

Thanks for the update. It is incredibly kind what you’re doing for them, and I can’t imagine the challenge of having that many people. Can I ask, does the government offer any assistance to help feed them? That can’t be cheap if you have to shoulder the cost.

20588

Is a disadvantage of giving Ukraine advanced drones where at least some will be shot down and their technology dissected by Russia / China? Or are these drones widely understood technologies where we aren’t protecting any secrets?

20589

Very good question! Which led me to finding this:

20590

Is it possible we can put a small self-destruct to obliterate the sensitive stuff on it? Seems that would be worth a little less load carrying capability.

I would like to point out, we suck and have already turned critical information to Iran as they got their hands on some of our better drones. So maybe it doesn’t matter anymore.

20591

These Russians are insufferable. Guess who else needs to be freed of the fake Nazi threat?

20592

You really can’t blame Russia here. The West forced them into needing to invade Kazakhstan after rapid NATO expansion into central Asia.

20593

Don’t be nazis and Russia will leave you alone. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

20594

From what they were saying, it seems more of a, “What sensitive capabilities can we remove and still have this be a warfighting drone?” Most likely it’s the advanced sensor packages and whatnot, the flight system probably isn’t special in any way, it’s the brain behind the cameras and the brain behind the communication suite.

20595

We could take a page from the Russian playbook. Behind the first line of drones, have a second line of drones whose job it is to blow up any front line drones that look like they are surrendering to the enemy.

20596

It’s drones all the way down.

20597

Damn machines taking jobs from humans

20598

Excellent thread on why sending these drones (and certain other Western weapons) is not a good idea:

Quick summary - Russian air defense is good despite early problems and these drones are too expensive and vulnerable to that air defense.

20599

Yes, I’ve been extremely concerned about the fact Ukraine hasn’t posted a single hit by the Bayraktor in months. Feel like they re probably all destroyed at this point.

20600

In the public signal intercepts almost every week you can hear Russians calling their mom or wife at home and complaining about the bodies of fallen comrades being left where they dropped as evidence of the logistics failure.

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