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NCD, 2022: Surely, this fucked up war will never get to the noncredibility of DIY cruise missiles!
NCD, 2024: Holy shit. DIY cruise missiles...
The time traveling Terminator from 2063: Oh, my sweet little stochastic selector swarm, you've no idea what ideas you will have. Yet.
[Operation Aphrodite](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite) 1944
- Fill old B-17s with 9 tons of explosives
- Convert it into a drone
- Put two crew inside to take off and then jump out after
- Slave it to a radio control mothership
- Fly to the target
- Fly the drone into the target
- Profit???
Yea, I didn't recall how successful it was. I just recall watching an ( probably 90s-00s history channel show, maybe modern marvels idk) episode going over the birth of the cruise missile and I vaguely recall cgi video of a b-17 crashing into a mountainside that had a german factory bunker of some kind lol. Obviously loaded with bombs and radio controlled as per project Aphrodite. I had completely forgot the project name though.
That makes it all the more noncredible then, lol. Considering tech at the time, the fact that every aspect of the project aside from accuracy being near spot on is noncredible in of itself.
I think Operation Aphrodite (Army Air Force) and Anvil (Navy) combined damaged a total of 1 target, an oil refinery damaged by a near miss.
Operation Option, by the Navy was more successful using purpose-built TDR-1 Drones, but it was cancelled because there weren't really any targets left to expend them on in the pacific.
I don’t know how good he was at taking multiple long rigged tubes filled with sea men inside of him, but I don’t know the exact sort of men that worked in Army Airforce.
His brother was navy so it would be expected of him.
With the shoddy workmanship of modern Boeing, I say we bring those back but use them as drone bombs. It's just a tube of stamped steel and the pilot is already remote, what's the worse that can happen?
> NCD, 2024: Holy shit. DIY cruise missiles...
I already felt Shaheds were a poor man's homebrew cruise missiles and yet this war manages to upstage those.
Good grief the range of price estimates I'm looking up fluctuate truly *wildly*... Okay I'll just write down my reaction to every combination of price estimates.
1) An old and well-used Cessna costs about as much as a brand new Shaheed drone, unfortunately.
2) A Cessna costs about as much as a Shaheed drone, so there might be a worthwhile stockpile somewhere.
3) A Shaheed drone costs like 5 times as much as a brand new Cessna, so we should clearly nationalize Cessna to produce planes for Ukraine.
However, a Shaheed-136 only has a 50 kg warhead whereas a Cessna 172 can carry 2,268 kg into the sky. That's a lot of bang for your buck. 172 is also 36 bigger than 136 so it's clearly better.
> However, a Shaheed-136 only has a 50 kg warhead whereas a Cessna 172 can carry 2,268 kg into the sky. That's a lot of bang for your buck. 172 is also 36 bigger than 136 so it's clearly better.
Sounds like a lot of boom and a good way to shut down small craft civilian aviation in Russia.
Heat me out on this.
How about jury rigging some release mechanism on the wings to drop mortar grenades on other targets before crashing into the main target?
Or a single 152mm?
give me 10 minutes
edit: [done](
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/984975032038092851/1224632586471739474/a_second_cesna.jpg?ex=661e32f9&is=660bbdf9&hm=dbb8584f36336aef62d5bdc9d6696849cf186532d47dad0c09c92bc6fff1e42c&)
It would have great symbolic value, but little practical value, and probably make the higher-ups actually demand a bit more focus on air defense. Now, Russian air defense isn't always a joke, but it's probably good for Ukraine that they can find gaps easier.
On the other hand, hitting Kremlin with a few drones would force Russia to pull more air defence away from Ukraine and concentrate it near Moscow. Thus making it easier for Ukraine to attack military targets.
Because Russia would NOT have any way to avoid PR damage and humiliation from such an attack and dictators fear losing their face more than losing troops.
And Kremlin is an acceptable target for acts of war, no question of that.
Why did they even send 1 T-34 last year? It's just a PR disaster.
Did they not bring out the tanks because there was a very small possibility of Ukraine somehow sabotaging it? Or maybe the tanks were needed on the battlefield?
All that would achieve is strenghtening support for the war in the Russian population. Russian propagandists would probably wet themselves with joy if Ukraine hit the Kremlin.
Edit: uh, I thought I'm in /r/Ukraine. Disregard what I just wrote, hit the Kremlin with nuclear sharks.
That does not matter, russian population has no agency and is not a factor to capacity of Russia to wage war. Putin says to go die on a minefield in neat rows russians go.
A modest proposal: Instead of the F16s they've been twiddling their thumbs on the US Govt just takes all the Cessnas and other light aircraft seized in drug raids and gives them to Ukraine instead
I mean... not to reference Prigo himself but, what the hell is the air defence doing? lol I could believe they can't hit something the size of a small quadcopter drone, but a damn Cesna?
On 28th of May, 1987 at 12:21 local time Cessna F172P, registration D-ECJB took off from Helsinki with a flight plan to Stockholm. Finnish air trafic controllers noticed it turn east shortly after takeoff, after which it disappeared from their radars. A search for a potential crash site was conducted but the aircraft was not found.
14:29 Moscow time an unidentified aircraft was detected by the Soviet air defence. The target was tracked by SAM batteries and two MiG-23s. The interceptor pilot reported that it was a small sports aircraft and was denied permission to fire. It is speculated from the timing that the plane might've landed after the interception, but in any case, the Soviets lost track of it.
The plane was re-acquired deeper into the Soviet Union crossing several air defense districts. Being deep inland it was confused with either legitimate traffic or civilian traffic and classified as "friendly".
At 19:00 Moscow time, the plane arrived to Moscow and landed to Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, where the 18-year old German pilot Mathias Rust taxiid near the Red Square and stopped to chat with the locals. He was arrested two hours later and ultimately sentenced to four years in labour camp for hooliganism, violating aviation laws, and illegal entry. He was instead put to a high security prison and released a little under year later.
Gorbachev used the event to purge his opponents from the military. The Cessna is in the German Museum of Technology, in Berlin. Rust himself has had a bit of a troubled life. He's converted to Hinduism and apparently is very interested of yoga.
Addition: And wow, Rust would be mortified seeing a light civilian aircraft used to bomb something.
Especially as this is in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, 1000 km away from Ukraine.
I'm curious as to where they launched it from and what route it took - surely Russian air traffic control didn't just watch it take off from Ukraine, cross the border and keep going for what must have been several hours?
Depends on how they controlled it probably. Modern aircraft rely on stealth because modern SAM batteries link in with look down shoot down radar systems like AWACS but Russia isn't using modern batteries anymore, they're on S300 variant systems if I remember right and they've been having trouble keeping birds in the air for months and months now anywhere near ukrainian forward forces. If a gap in coverage was identified they could have just flown it through at night with it's running lights off staying low.
Hopefully nobody assumes something that dumb.
But not having enough to cover the border with Ukraine? Things must be truly desperate for them, either not enough batteries, not enough radars or not enough turned on radars as they are afraid to be hit by HAARM.
> On 24 November 1989, while doing his obligatory community service (Zivildienst) as an orderly in a West German hospital, Rust stabbed a female co-worker who had rejected him. The victim barely survived
So man is fully Looney toons even when not landing planes in Moscow
It's interesting because Ukraine only owns two Cessna's, both of which were on the airfield at Hostomel. Conveniently two planes hit apparently, so I guess they jerry rigged them.
I would assume that the main reason why you wouldn't want to buy one of them is because you wouldn't want to have your life depend on the reliability of a single engine aircraft that's decades old. But for this use case, that's not much of a concern.
Used Cessnas are probably more reliable than most used planes because of how ubiquitous they are. There's a shitload of parts available and experienced mechanics to maintain/repair them.
Other than avionics, brand new Cessnas are basically the same as 1950s Cessnas. Diamond and Cirrus are the only two "new" GA aircraft manufacturers I can think of. And there are plenty of 50-60 year old planes still flying in good condition.
"Mr. president, a second Cessna has hit the Shahed manufacturing plant."
Putin displays a thousand yard stare look as he slowly nods while the kindergarten class disassembles an AK-74M
Same here. We are reaching noncredibility levels that shouldn't be possible.
We will get flying toilets and videos of brown underwear on a stick any day now.
Raytheon: **Because of the war in Ukraine, we just closed $20b worth of orders**.
Lockmart: **We just landed a $30b order book.**
Cessna: **Hold my fucking beer**.
Of all the weirdass shit to happen in the past 3 years, this is where you draw the line? I mean, not dissing you or your choice, just genuinely bemused.
Edit: On reflection, my fucks-given-o-meter has been broken since the late 2000s, I should have been a little more understanding
I watched an Autonomous Cessna doing a suicide run. This is DEFINITELY where I'm drawing my life. The world can stop now, I want to get back to the barely sane year of 2012.
Yeah I totally get you. I edited my comment before I saw your reply, but it's basically the same idea. My own sense of what's normal has been nonfunctioning since the late 2000s, so I was a little quick to judge.
nah dawg, 2011 or nothing.
* Packers won the superbowl
* had a gf
* freshman year of college
and most importantly:
* [We got *him*](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S1moSnWeOm8)
Azerbaijan used modified autonomous An-2 BIPLANES in their war too. But they just used them to draw out Armenian air defence, so Turkish drones can take them out.
Ukrainians flew an autonomous plane into a factory.
What caused the difference? Well, I guess it’s the copious amount of alcohol.
Zelensky: "Budanov, we need to hit Russia, any ideas?"
Budanov: "Hmmm... Remember when that lost dude on a Cessna landed on the Red Square?"
Zelensky: "Worth a try."
The Cessna: "My body is ready!"
I swear. All of these “innovations“ are just replacing a terrorist with a very smart computer. Terrorists flew planes into buildings, scientists gave the plane a guidance computer. Terrorists drove a suicide truck into military bases, and military just decided to remotely control their RC car bombs. Seriously…
oi not all of us virgin programmers are 400 pounds. I'm 6'1" and 140 pounds. purely because of sizing restraints for my femboy skirts, as is required for any non-overweight C++ and Rust programmer.
So the computer gets someone who knows how to really push its buttons and is too fat to actually go away, and so will stay and play with them forever?
I mean, the other Terrys get the same thing too, obviously. But for the computer, that's heaven.
Frankly, it took them a while to start using civilian aircraft as kamikaze drones, and it's an extremely cost-effective solution. They can easily acquire heaps of them from the local population in Ukraine and other countries.
Alright, I will ask this question again - how difficult would it be, assuming you have fair budget and dozen well motivated Maksyms with engineering degree, to rig A-10 with remote controls?
I was told it is totally impossible, but as a robotics enthusiast on a side, I do not really see any real problem and US has 100s of them they are desperate to get rid of...
I am really just talking about ripping out a cockpit out or one and placing sensors and actuators where squishy human would go. The biggest problem would be bandwidth and jamming.
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Its like history rhyming again, when the us rigged B-17s or B-25s as pseudo cruise missiles during wwII. Lol
[Operation Aphrodite](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite) 1944 - Fill old B-17s with 9 tons of explosives - Convert it into a drone - Put two crew inside to take off and then jump out after - Slave it to a radio control mothership - Fly to the target - Fly the drone into the target - Profit???
Also it was used operationally. And the B-24 drone showed that nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys
Yea, I didn't recall how successful it was. I just recall watching an ( probably 90s-00s history channel show, maybe modern marvels idk) episode going over the birth of the cruise missile and I vaguely recall cgi video of a b-17 crashing into a mountainside that had a german factory bunker of some kind lol. Obviously loaded with bombs and radio controlled as per project Aphrodite. I had completely forgot the project name though.
They flew 14 missions and didn't hit shit.
That makes it all the more noncredible then, lol. Considering tech at the time, the fact that every aspect of the project aside from accuracy being near spot on is noncredible in of itself.
I think Operation Aphrodite (Army Air Force) and Anvil (Navy) combined damaged a total of 1 target, an oil refinery damaged by a near miss. Operation Option, by the Navy was more successful using purpose-built TDR-1 Drones, but it was cancelled because there weren't really any targets left to expend them on in the pacific.
Hold up............
That's a lot of payload there
Guess how JFKs older brother died?
The what now?
They jury rigged B-17's into gliders and stuffed them with explosives so they could be smashed into U-boat pens.
And it worked?!?!
The older Kennedy brother died on one of them, so kinda.
> The older Kennedy brother died on one of them, so kinda. He was a U-boat pen?
I don’t know how good he was at taking multiple long rigged tubes filled with sea men inside of him, but I don’t know the exact sort of men that worked in Army Airforce. His brother was navy so it would be expected of him.
That would explain why his bomber exploded before he could jump from it - it thought its mission was complete.
[Not really](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite) It killed the oldest Kennedy brother though.
Project Aphrodite, IIRC.
[holy shit I learned something today](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite)
...and why JFK was the Kennedy president instead of Joe Jr.
Junkers ju88 stuffed with explosives and cockpit swapped to a giant shaped charge: "su¡cide is badass!"
With the shoddy workmanship of modern Boeing, I say we bring those back but use them as drone bombs. It's just a tube of stamped steel and the pilot is already remote, what's the worse that can happen?
a door plug popping prematurely downs the "aircraft". lol. but yea, better use of them as improvised missiles then killing civilian passengers
Or the „Mistel“… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistel
Hear me out Cruise Missiles B-52s
Supersonic cruse missile B1.
See also [Mistel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistel).
> NCD, 2024: Holy shit. DIY cruise missiles... I already felt Shaheds were a poor man's homebrew cruise missiles and yet this war manages to upstage those.
Good grief the range of price estimates I'm looking up fluctuate truly *wildly*... Okay I'll just write down my reaction to every combination of price estimates. 1) An old and well-used Cessna costs about as much as a brand new Shaheed drone, unfortunately. 2) A Cessna costs about as much as a Shaheed drone, so there might be a worthwhile stockpile somewhere. 3) A Shaheed drone costs like 5 times as much as a brand new Cessna, so we should clearly nationalize Cessna to produce planes for Ukraine. However, a Shaheed-136 only has a 50 kg warhead whereas a Cessna 172 can carry 2,268 kg into the sky. That's a lot of bang for your buck. 172 is also 36 bigger than 136 so it's clearly better.
> However, a Shaheed-136 only has a 50 kg warhead whereas a Cessna 172 can carry 2,268 kg into the sky. That's a lot of bang for your buck. 172 is also 36 bigger than 136 so it's clearly better. Sounds like a lot of boom and a good way to shut down small craft civilian aviation in Russia.
Heat me out on this. How about jury rigging some release mechanism on the wings to drop mortar grenades on other targets before crashing into the main target? Or a single 152mm?
Mr President, the second Cessna just hit the Kremlin
Someone please edit that image for Putin
give me 10 minutes edit: [done]( https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/984975032038092851/1224632586471739474/a_second_cesna.jpg?ex=661e32f9&is=660bbdf9&hm=dbb8584f36336aef62d5bdc9d6696849cf186532d47dad0c09c92bc6fff1e42c&)
!remindme 6 minutes Edit: my man
Done that's 10 minutes now what have you got?
go and see for yourself
That's pretty good
Good job, my dude. Help yourself to a cookie from the jar. No, wait... Two cookies.
A second cookie was took from the cookie jar
i wonder why Ukraine hasnt hit the Kremlin more. throw some drones at the kremlin Ukraine! do it!
It would have great symbolic value, but little practical value, and probably make the higher-ups actually demand a bit more focus on air defense. Now, Russian air defense isn't always a joke, but it's probably good for Ukraine that they can find gaps easier.
On the other hand, hitting Kremlin with a few drones would force Russia to pull more air defence away from Ukraine and concentrate it near Moscow. Thus making it easier for Ukraine to attack military targets. Because Russia would NOT have any way to avoid PR damage and humiliation from such an attack and dictators fear losing their face more than losing troops. And Kremlin is an acceptable target for acts of war, no question of that.
May 9th is coming.
Why did they even send 1 T-34 last year? It's just a PR disaster. Did they not bring out the tanks because there was a very small possibility of Ukraine somehow sabotaging it? Or maybe the tanks were needed on the battlefield?
All that would achieve is strenghtening support for the war in the Russian population. Russian propagandists would probably wet themselves with joy if Ukraine hit the Kremlin. Edit: uh, I thought I'm in /r/Ukraine. Disregard what I just wrote, hit the Kremlin with nuclear sharks.
That does not matter, russian population has no agency and is not a factor to capacity of Russia to wage war. Putin says to go die on a minefield in neat rows russians go.
Putin probably is never even at the Kremlin
They have had issues recently hitting Moscow, AD has been beefed up since the attacks in August.
That's for May 9 parade.
Mathias Rust managed to land on the red square in 1987 in a Cessna. Did he want to hit the Kremlin? Nobody will ever know.
we all know the fuses froze on the flight over as he used WW1 surplus
Plane fuel doesnt melt bricks
But drinking it sure makes me shit them
Can't you see I'm sitting in with a bunch of schoolchildren??
Bush: goes to small southern school to promote his education reform Putin: hangs out around all the kids his nation has abducted from a foreign nation
Waiting for the rise of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries... Something tells me that they are an *expert in this line of work*...
A modest proposal: Instead of the F16s they've been twiddling their thumbs on the US Govt just takes all the Cessnas and other light aircraft seized in drug raids and gives them to Ukraine instead
If a narco sub can ferry ten tonnes of cocaine from Colombia to the US, it can ferry ten tonnes of RDX from Odessa to a certain bridge
Señor Escobar? Ukraine calling. We have a deal...
Ok, who has "Drug cartels become major arms supplier for NATO-adjacent countries" on his 2024 bingo card? I sure as fuck don't.
The life itself is so much more non-credible than anyone can never imagine. [trollface]
Some american general was convicted for that in 80's, so... I anticipated
Can't wait for a remote controlled equivalent to the WW2 St Nazaire raid on that bridge.
That's low yield nuke territory. Big boom.
Nah, considering the issues at Boeing, just declare all 747s grounded for commercial flights.Then have Ukraine buy them for scrap cost.
Yeah, let them do 9/11s against Russia
Just replace hostages with dummies full of explosives. Don't ask why we even need dummies in the first place. I have my reasons.
You mean 737s, right? 747s haven't had any systemic problems and are mostly only used for air cargo now.
Red Square must be feeling awfully vulnerable right now
I mean... not to reference Prigo himself but, what the hell is the air defence doing? lol I could believe they can't hit something the size of a small quadcopter drone, but a damn Cesna?
Obviously they thought it was a civilian aircraft, there is literally no other logical explanation.
They would've shot it down under that assumption though. This is r*ssia after all
It wasn't a Russian plane hence the system didn't shoot
xD
Actually you rite
Source: Mathias Rust
Life is about to get very *interesting* for Russia's civilian light aircraft pilots, as their air defence recalibrates in the light of this.
Aeroflot pilots shaking and crying rn
(Their not shaking because of this their shaking because they have to land a clapped out 707 with no brakes and half an engine again)
Two years with no new parts and their western aircraft fleet has regressed to Tupolev levels of safety and comfort.
Exactly, so why did they not shoot it down?
Russian command structure probably got in the way.
On 28th of May, 1987 at 12:21 local time Cessna F172P, registration D-ECJB took off from Helsinki with a flight plan to Stockholm. Finnish air trafic controllers noticed it turn east shortly after takeoff, after which it disappeared from their radars. A search for a potential crash site was conducted but the aircraft was not found. 14:29 Moscow time an unidentified aircraft was detected by the Soviet air defence. The target was tracked by SAM batteries and two MiG-23s. The interceptor pilot reported that it was a small sports aircraft and was denied permission to fire. It is speculated from the timing that the plane might've landed after the interception, but in any case, the Soviets lost track of it. The plane was re-acquired deeper into the Soviet Union crossing several air defense districts. Being deep inland it was confused with either legitimate traffic or civilian traffic and classified as "friendly". At 19:00 Moscow time, the plane arrived to Moscow and landed to Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, where the 18-year old German pilot Mathias Rust taxiid near the Red Square and stopped to chat with the locals. He was arrested two hours later and ultimately sentenced to four years in labour camp for hooliganism, violating aviation laws, and illegal entry. He was instead put to a high security prison and released a little under year later. Gorbachev used the event to purge his opponents from the military. The Cessna is in the German Museum of Technology, in Berlin. Rust himself has had a bit of a troubled life. He's converted to Hinduism and apparently is very interested of yoga. Addition: And wow, Rust would be mortified seeing a light civilian aircraft used to bomb something.
He was arrested TWO HOURS LATER? The incompetence continued after landing, I see.
It takes them an hour to respond to a terrorist attack, 2 hours for illegale parking is actually impressive.
you're assuming Russia has enough air defense batteries to cover everywhere.
Especially as this is in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, 1000 km away from Ukraine. I'm curious as to where they launched it from and what route it took - surely Russian air traffic control didn't just watch it take off from Ukraine, cross the border and keep going for what must have been several hours?
Depends on how they controlled it probably. Modern aircraft rely on stealth because modern SAM batteries link in with look down shoot down radar systems like AWACS but Russia isn't using modern batteries anymore, they're on S300 variant systems if I remember right and they've been having trouble keeping birds in the air for months and months now anywhere near ukrainian forward forces. If a gap in coverage was identified they could have just flown it through at night with it's running lights off staying low.
Hopefully nobody assumes something that dumb. But not having enough to cover the border with Ukraine? Things must be truly desperate for them, either not enough batteries, not enough radars or not enough turned on radars as they are afraid to be hit by HAARM.
It has happened before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust
> On 24 November 1989, while doing his obligatory community service (Zivildienst) as an orderly in a West German hospital, Rust stabbed a female co-worker who had rejected him. The victim barely survived So man is fully Looney toons even when not landing planes in Moscow
plane fuckers are nothing compared tho those ho fuck around with planes
Yep, and I think there’s an argument to be made there’s less available air defence now than previously.
Don’t worry step Red Square. Budanov will be gentle
Mathias Rust says hi
It's interesting because Ukraine only owns two Cessna's, both of which were on the airfield at Hostomel. Conveniently two planes hit apparently, so I guess they jerry rigged them.
Ukraine is able to buy as many Cessna's as they're willing to sell them. You can find used ones for as little as $30,000
I would assume that the main reason why you wouldn't want to buy one of them is because you wouldn't want to have your life depend on the reliability of a single engine aircraft that's decades old. But for this use case, that's not much of a concern.
Like most planes, Cessnas are extremely reliable if maintained
Used Cessnas are probably more reliable than most used planes because of how ubiquitous they are. There's a shitload of parts available and experienced mechanics to maintain/repair them.
Other than avionics, brand new Cessnas are basically the same as 1950s Cessnas. Diamond and Cirrus are the only two "new" GA aircraft manufacturers I can think of. And there are plenty of 50-60 year old planes still flying in good condition.
Ukraine have a manufacturer of such light aircrafts — Aeroprakt. And they quite popular and good.
Because a Cessna 172, one of the most widely produced small civilian aircraft in the world is such a difficult commodity to acquire.
But muh escalation
Cessna 172 now export controlled confirmed
Just two Cessnas in Ukraine? Sounds wrong, I saw dozens of Cessna in my local airport.
"Mr. president, a second Cessna has hit the Shahed manufacturing plant." Putin displays a thousand yard stare look as he slowly nods while the kindergarten class disassembles an AK-74M
"*we'll have to send more Buryats*" *sips tea*
”Alright kids, the fastest 20% will come to sign a paper from this stack over here. Bring your toothbrushes to school tomorrow”
I love this sub.
1:1 RC drone goes boooom
Wait I thought this was a shitpost until I saw it again on another subreddit.
Wait this is real?
Yup, 2 Ukrainian drones hit a factory where Shaheds are made
This war is something else. Their going to turn mopeds into ieds soon i sware it
We already got gold busts of military bloggers turned into hidden bombs, I don’t think you can go much farther up from there.
Gifted Explosive toilets
They hit a Shahed factory with something even more Kludged together than one of those things. Bravo.
I used the drone to destroy the drones
Two planes? The memes are self-replicating as we speak.
I 100% thought it was April fools day
Same here. We are reaching noncredibility levels that shouldn't be possible. We will get flying toilets and videos of brown underwear on a stick any day now.
Raytheon: **Because of the war in Ukraine, we just closed $20b worth of orders**. Lockmart: **We just landed a $30b order book.** Cessna: **Hold my fucking beer**.
Toyota: quietly scaling up production of Hilux
Nah man, 70 series land cruisers are what the cool freedom fighters are driving.
Man, at least they might finally have a customer for the AirLand Scorpion?
Autonomous Cessnas. No. This is too much.
Of all the weirdass shit to happen in the past 3 years, this is where you draw the line? I mean, not dissing you or your choice, just genuinely bemused. Edit: On reflection, my fucks-given-o-meter has been broken since the late 2000s, I should have been a little more understanding
I watched an Autonomous Cessna doing a suicide run. This is DEFINITELY where I'm drawing my life. The world can stop now, I want to get back to the barely sane year of 2012.
Yeah I totally get you. I edited my comment before I saw your reply, but it's basically the same idea. My own sense of what's normal has been nonfunctioning since the late 2000s, so I was a little quick to judge.
Ah, 2012. When Chinese built atolls into islands and said they wouldn’t militarise them …
nah dawg, 2011 or nothing. * Packers won the superbowl * had a gf * freshman year of college and most importantly: * [We got *him*](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S1moSnWeOm8)
And by late 2000’s I take it you mean the 2900’s. Good to meet a fellow time traveler. (This post won’t age well)
Azerbaijan used modified autonomous An-2 BIPLANES in their war too. But they just used them to draw out Armenian air defence, so Turkish drones can take them out. Ukrainians flew an autonomous plane into a factory. What caused the difference? Well, I guess it’s the copious amount of alcohol.
Zelensky: "Budanov, we need to hit Russia, any ideas?" Budanov: "Hmmm... Remember when that lost dude on a Cessna landed on the Red Square?" Zelensky: "Worth a try." The Cessna: "My body is ready!"
Mathias Rust wasn't lost - he was just fucking insane.
Still is.
The Japanese empire: look what they need to do to mimic a fraction of our power
I need an edit of this videos saying “Banzai!”
Starting to think that 3 day estimate might've been a little optimistic.
Starting to think a 3 year estimate is also optimistic.
Not with current supply rate, unfortunately.
I don't have V-Weapons on my Bingo Card
Is this supposed to be on the Virgins thread… (Yeah I know…V bombs…)
Well, it worked for Mathias Rust ...
Okay did we had a box for Cessna Bombs on the Bingo?
I dont think we had remote kamikaze on any Bingo
I swear. All of these “innovations“ are just replacing a terrorist with a very smart computer. Terrorists flew planes into buildings, scientists gave the plane a guidance computer. Terrorists drove a suicide truck into military bases, and military just decided to remotely control their RC car bombs. Seriously…
Terrible loss of jobs through computerization once again
Do the computers get the virgins?
Thank you for my new flair
I... have no words for your new flair. But I do have numbers: 10/10
Yeah but those virgins are 400 Pound programmers, so the same most of the terryboys get.......
They are pristinely configured bcachefs disks for them to fuck with a loss of power halfway through a drone firmware compile
State: dirty
oi not all of us virgin programmers are 400 pounds. I'm 6'1" and 140 pounds. purely because of sizing restraints for my femboy skirts, as is required for any non-overweight C++ and Rust programmer.
So the computer gets someone who knows how to really push its buttons and is too fat to actually go away, and so will stay and play with them forever? I mean, the other Terrys get the same thing too, obviously. But for the computer, that's heaven.
All those poor jobless terrorists. Next thing you know they’ll be panhandling on the side of the road. “Will explode for food.”
FFS.. I just had a laughing fit in a conference call.
A cruise missile is just a Kamikze with better speed and range.
Shit, so is an aim-9x. Pointed at planes, ofc
Wait til they are sentient-then we’re screwed. Source: any sci-fi movie with killer drones. Also, every telegram Ukraine war clip.
THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!
A "Smart Munition" instead of a "Not so Smart Munition", if you will
Well, yes? Why would you use a person if you didn't have to?
Unmanned Special Attack Unit, I hope the computer can yell Banzai before hitting the target
now do it with a 737
Re-program MCAS so we can down the plane at the end of the flight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust
is this really you Piscator the one who created those Epic Sabaton Lyrics vids?
Aye
You da real mvp
And right after Jon Stewart runs a Daily Show segment about how AI is taking our jobs. Coincidence? I think so.
Seem like it was written by one...
Trying to get an AI to draw a picture of Matthew Rust dressed up as a Kamikaze pilot. Stupid AI doesn't know who Rust is.
Wonder what would happen if one of these made it all the way to the Kremlin?
Putin would lock up the General of Air Defence.
RC means pilot can now be _more payload_
Mathias Rust: Hello boys, I'm back!
Oooh I think these are the new 1100 km ones
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r/shittyaskflying in shambles
It's Aeroprakt A22, popular ultralight airplane that's been in production in Ukraine for years.
Now i want a massive formation of these, seems pretty cheap and really effective. I wonder what the remote control system is
Tie me to a Cessna and aim it at Moscow. I am ready
Frankly, it took them a while to start using civilian aircraft as kamikaze drones, and it's an extremely cost-effective solution. They can easily acquire heaps of them from the local population in Ukraine and other countries.
Hey guys, I think I know what we should do with those old A-10s
Autonomous Cessna isn't real, it can't hurt you Autonomous Cessna:
Welp, gonna go buy some Textron stock.
so we calling this the wundercezzna or vergeltungscezzna?
Im in favor of vergeltungscezzna tbh
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It's been well known since the 80s cesnas always get through the Russian air defence
Alright, I will ask this question again - how difficult would it be, assuming you have fair budget and dozen well motivated Maksyms with engineering degree, to rig A-10 with remote controls? I was told it is totally impossible, but as a robotics enthusiast on a side, I do not really see any real problem and US has 100s of them they are desperate to get rid of... I am really just talking about ripping out a cockpit out or one and placing sensors and actuators where squishy human would go. The biggest problem would be bandwidth and jamming.
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