[4gotunameagain]

..in theory. In practice, building such a complex system in a fail safe way is not that easy.

[gosub100]

"in a fail safe way" goes out the window in wartime.

[4gotunameagain]

I meant safe for the mission, not for any innocent souls around..

[RenThraysk]

Still only need one camera drone if a human is spotting targets.

[4gotunameagain]

In theory. In practice you would not allow a single camera drone to be the single point of failure of a mission with such lengthy and risky planning, and dire consequences.

[Yeul]

They had a limited amount of drones in those containers they needed to make them count. My money is on operators.

[RenThraysk]

Still only need one flying drone to identify all targets. There maybe more camera drones available to pilot, but still only need one flying to spot.

A static target only needs to be seen once.

[dmkolobov]

I understand that you’re probably just gonna reply with “still only need one camera”

…but if GPS is jammed, and there’s only one camera per fleet, how exactly are the other drones supposed to navigate towards the spotted targets unless they’re all equipped with cameras?

[RenThraysk]

One camera drone can see if another drone is on target.

[dmkolobov]

So the old “use a single unreliable 2D instrument to coordinate multiple fast-moving projectiles in three dimensional space” approach.

[0x457]

lmao what? You want to loiter with a camera drone to guide other drones to target? How would that work if neither drone knows where it is (drones had no GPS lock, it's a fact, not a speculation)?