• bluGill@fedia.io
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        3 days ago

        Probably not as the drone would need to return home over the same route and that is a bad idea since then the enemy can follow the drone back with their drones.

        often these drones are one way they can go farther without needing to save battery to get back and they can more out of the battery by overcharging it.

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          3 days ago

          I was thinking of reeling in whatever cable survives the destruction after impact. It’d be easy enough to QC it after rewinding.

          But yeah probably safer to abandon it

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      3 days ago

      From what I’ve seen, they cost around 1-2k Dollars for 40 kms, probably cheaper if you buy in bulk. A single spool of 125 µm fiber weighs around 3 kg but half of that is probably the spool itself.