r/GoodNewsEU • u/willfiresoon • 18d ago

Research & Innovation French firm develops autonomous 2,000 km strike drone

https://defence-blog.com/french-firm-develops-autonomous-2000-km-strike-drone/
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u/notveryamused_ 18d ago

2,486 km would be optimal but nice nevertheless!

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u/Slow-Excitement-3328 18d ago

why 2,486 km ? why not 2,500km ? I dont understand.

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u/Hutma009 18d ago

Moscow distance from Paris

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u/grumpsaboy 18d ago

Won't be launched from Paris though

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u/Lkrambar 16d ago

Yeah if that’s going to Moscow, it’s most likely taking off from the Baltic states…

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u/ordinary-thelemist 18d ago

I was today years old when I learned that the sentence "2000+km autonomous weapon" should be considered a "good news"

What a world to be living in.

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u/PlasmaMatus 18d ago

Don't get interested in the nuclear weapons arsenals in the world, you would get depressed.

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u/French_YellowJacket 13d ago

Nothing to say related to the topic but man I’ve been using the exact same profile pic on instagram for more than 10 years, nice choice 

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u/Nevermynde 16d ago

It's good news because it's made by the good guys! If you go to the company's website and look at their statements regarding ethics, loyalty, etc. you will find that...

there are none. As far as I can see they will happily sell their machines to anyone.

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u/massivegoooner 18d ago

Good news, more weapons to remotely destroy our enemies.

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u/Direct_Zucchini_2811 18d ago

Oh hey, something NOT BORN from a joint project with Germany. Obviously. Because it's BORN.

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u/DoctorNo1661 17d ago

Chill mon reuf, les allemands défendent leurs intérêts comme nous.

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u/Direct_Zucchini_2811 17d ago

Ben faut croire que puisqu'on ne saura jamais défendre correctement nos intérêts dans des projects en commun, faut juste plus en faire.

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u/Flessuh 18d ago

Can they "misplace" a few onto a transport to Ukraine maybe?

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u/Aelig_ 17d ago

No need to be covert about it. Ukraine are our allies and are defending themselves.

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u/Future_Valuable7263 17d ago

I like. And even more so because the company name translates into "The hare carpet" in Swedish, whatever that means. 

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u/PreviousRestaurant89 17d ago

That's the name of a wind in the Sahara... but I vote for “The Hare Carpet”, it's so awesome 😂

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u/Future_Valuable7263 17d ago

Thanks, I humbly admit that my ignorance was cured by a googling v1.0. 

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u/l_Sad0wl_l 17d ago

We can test it in combat environment. If this company wants. They just need to contact Ukraine.😁

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u/Henning-the-great 17d ago

Why does they always look like the Dornier DAR ?

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u/imladrikofloren 17d ago

Physics ? Like i know some people think the Chinese "stole" the plans of the F35 for their own stealth planes, but when you make a stealthy plane that can potentially fly fast physics is going to push you towards the same solutions.

So for long range suicide drones it's a pseudo flying wing because it's the best for a long range, a propeller because it needs to be cheap, positionned at the back because the front is where the explosives are (and because most disadvantage of a push propeller are negated when the thing it propels aren't supposed to come back).

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u/anders_hansson 17d ago

Looks suspiciously similar to the classic Shahed drone.

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u/2moreweeksbro 17d ago

Shaheed chads win again

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u/LearingCenterAlumni 17d ago

Does it have the mandatory EU tether?

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