Why use four wheels when two is fine? You already have all the makings of a control moment gyro, and a hyperspace pirate just posted on youtube how to make a gyro-monorail.
Why the wheels? It could just sit on the tracks and wait
Yes, but then it would only work if the train was going towards it.
(In case you missed the irony here somehow, you could shell a damn train just about as well, they’re not sneaky or hard to follow)
All meetings should be like this.
On a different note, I think they should use RC cars as well, I mean could you imagine what the Russians think when a lighting Macqueen RC car comes rolling into their trench with a Grenade attached to it
Yes but is it… for lack of a better term… florkable?
Good ted talk. Sending to Zelensky
That’s the hard way…does Zelinsky have a Signal account?
Or it could carry an iron wedge underneath, land in the track, weld the wedge using thermite, and fly away. Then you wait for the train to derail.
Or you can fly multiple drones l, land them on the track, deploy large amounts of c4 or thermite, fly away and then detonate the payload to destroy the track.
Or detonate the payload beneath a train to destroy both the train AND the track
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True, however I have to assume that fuel tanks tend to be lower on the locomotives (and therefore nearer the tracks), so as long as the explosive is high enough energy to set off the fuel, it’ll do a lot of the work for you. As will momentum, because all the explosive has to do is damage the tracks and jostle the engine, and the length of cars behind will keep on moving, go of the rails, and slam into the fireball.
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That’s what I thought, keep it simple.
I was hoping for a drone hut with chicken feet, but this works fine too.
No, those don’t fly. You’re thinking of a mortar and pestle.
This is ludicrous over-engineering.
You land on the train in-motion, then blow it up at a random time along its journey. The range of any train is much further than the range of any drone.
I think the idea is that you ride the track to extend the range of the drone since train tracks are much more efficient than flying in terms of battery usage.
Ahhh, that would be much better. Though a drone wide enough to straddle a Russian rail gauge sounds pretty beefy. I guess it’d already be a serious affair, if it’s carrying enough munitions to delete a train in motion.
I still think it’d be simpler and smarter to plant time-bombs on top of trains and fly back.
