• agent_flounder
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      1 year ago

      How many cruise missiles are flown with joysticks by humans? :)

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      1 year ago

      Only if it’s meant for a single one-way flight that ends with a big kaboom. Presumably since they’re calling it a drone it’s meant to fly somewhere, do something (deliver ordnance or just surveil an area) and come back for refueling, repairs, and redeployment.