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You know...as the battlefield becomes ever more automated, there might be a very brief window where the winged hussars could make a comeback.
Let's say you have a battlefield riddled with smart drones. They have image recognition and immediately attack anything resembling a tank or other military asset. Do you think anyone bothered to program the drones to seek out and attack a unit outfit like 18th century Polish cavalry? A charge on horseback just might be able to ride completely undisturbed through the right kind of drone-controlled battlefield.
Especially with these wings!
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED
COMING DOWN THEY TURNED THE TIDE
Ukranian drones are already equipped to target the latest Russian logistic vehicles, donkeys.
and you just fucking ruined what would have been the coolest thing ever by putting it in public!
You could submit this plan to [email protected]
I didn't know this existed and you just made my life
They would be programmed to kill anything that moved just to be sure they get everything. They will be deployed like mine fields except the owners could disable them to move through the drone field.
Do you want your drones to burn through their numbers attacking deer and birds? That's what happens if you set them to attack anything.
Indeed, never provision your killbots with a pre-set kill limit. There's a well-known strategy to deal with that.
I can see the Onion headline: High-Tech Warfare not as simple as military genius on the internet thought
The moment they are activated they'll just blow each other up. Could be fun to watch.
Okay well I'm just going to air blast gravel at them then.
Or you could just get a big block of lead and mount it on a remote controlled chassis and just drive it around. At 6 mi an hour.