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Newton's third law; Hence the comment about drone size/weight and mentioning the small caliber weapon it would have to use.


It could expand out a big frill along a plane perpendicular to the shot when firing to transfer the kickback momentum to the air.


We already drop quarter of a million dollar bombs to kill single targets. Having a drone which turns into a disposable rocket to hit a single target is hardly unfeasible.


They are still going to optimize everything, something that can fire X number of shots instead of being a one-off rocket will stretch their budget farther, etc.


Right, but that wasn't the point - the point was that thusfar, the appeals to mechanical limitations of drones as weapons of war have been based on very limited thinking.




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