Linkerbaan ,
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From the country that houses DJI drones I expected something a lot scarier and more sophisticated.

This looks like a fraud to hide their real arsenal.

saltesc ,

I'm no battle expert, but this seems entirely impractical in cost, ability, readiness, and effectiveness.

"Send out the gun dog!"

immediately incapacitated

"Fuck it, duct tape this grenade to the Wish drone..."

julianschmulian ,

ah sweet, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension

Magister ,
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It reminds me of a Black Mirror episode

serpineslair ,

See episode "Metalhead".

ed_cock ,

I don't find that scarier than the cheap suicide quad copters we've seen in Ukraine.

FlyingSquid OP Mod ,
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You probably should. Cheap suicide quad copters have a much more difficult time getting into things like basements.

TransplantedSconie ,
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Just fly it through the window. The concussion alone kills and has the added bonus of dropping the ceiling down and possibly the house if it's a big enough explosion

FlyingSquid OP Mod ,
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Not all basements have windows. Basement bunkers tend not to.

ed_cock , (edited )

Okay, but this can't go through doors on its own either unless it brings an arm buddy.

FlyingSquid OP Mod ,
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Or, you know, has a big gun on its back.

You can shoot through a door.

glimse ,

Coming soon to a western military near you...

China is playing catch up here

CaptainSpaceman ,

Innovate to stay ahead, or steal tech and be slightly behind but never need to innovate

Carrolade ,

If you're going to operate with a tightly controlled information space for security reasons, it's going to naturally stifle innovation. It comes down to prevailing attitudes, where a pattern of generally challenging old assumptions and ideas is either encouraged or discouraged. You can either be loyal to entrenched ideas, which slows progress but encourages stability and predictability, or you can not give a fuck about them, which speeds innovation at the cost of more instability and unpredictability.

You can't really do both at the same time though, since it all traces back to the core attitudes of an individual person and how they operate within some sort of organizational structure, where they have superiors. You can either challenge the superiors or bow, but not both.

Carmakazi ,

And naturally it's a reverse-engineered BD Spot, likely even down to the software. Why put money into R&D when your adversaries do it for you?

cmbabul ,

I don’t think Bungie was making an assessment of the Chinese or anyone else with this detail, but in the Halo series the leader race of the alien religious collective called The Covenant initially achieved their power by reverse engineering and then utilizing the technology of an ancient galaxy conquering civilization. The human species, which based on the time period likely is very analogous to the US military, found that to be a big weakness because once they acquired some of the tech they were able to use it to improve on their own tools and weapons, but the Covenant never did because the ancient aliens were viewed as gods by them.

Not sure if i had a point but I thought it was a fun connection

credo , (edited )

Yeah, except in this situation the covenant send their member species to school on Earth to learn how to adapt the technology too.

EasternLettuce ,

Why is china so based on copying? With all their talent and resources it seems as though their entire economy is based on ripping off western tech

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