this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2024
54 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1992 readers
54 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

To me this looks like it's already been out-innovated by the USAF:

https://newatlas.com/military/quicksink-modular-strap-on-kit-smart-bomb/

Range of 40nm, other glide bombs have longer range.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago

Part of me suspects there's plenty of those kinda kits out there. The appeal's pretty obvious - just pop the fucker onto any random dumb ordnance you've got laying about, and boom, instant smart bomb.

load more comments (3 replies)