• finley@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Why did it never occur to me that drones should go underwater? This is brilliant!

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      1 month ago

      It’s more difficult as you need to be able to communicate with it and water blocks a lot of radio frequencies pretty well.

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        1 month ago

        you need to be able to communicate

        Not necessarily. Piloting the weapon into position with internal navigation, then having the thing recognize and engage targets autonomously is becoming common with drones.

        Also, you can just trail a very long wire behind the thing to communicate with home base. This is how torpedoes have worked going back to the Cold War.