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Cannonpointer » 16 Apr 2026, 9:02 am » wrote: ↑

16 Apr 2026, 9:02 am

I am going to go on record with a pretty risky prediction. 

I believe that labor-saving drones are going to start being a very important part of the supply chain and the economy.

I don't care if people say I'm crazy - that's my firm stand in the matter.

I know the original designer of the Flying Dorito. I was 7.. He banged hs fist on the green kitchen table in disgust of the "god damned" beaureacrats who didn't see the wisdom of swarming cheap drones..   A trillion dollars of one shot million dollar bullets later, The man is vindicated in the afterlife.

Shahed's look about 500 lb GTOW.   I did design a RATO interface for our bird.   Went to NRL and measured the 3d CG on a giant machine.  Confrmed the tolerance with good old fashioned physics and geometry..   We we're 7 for 7 successful launches.  It is one of my proudest achievements.

I could pull off a manufacturing facility quickly.. I got a dead town, lots of empty space, and people that want to work.  However after 30 years as a slave to the miltary industrail complex, I think I deserve a chance to choose my efforts wisely..  I would rather save lives then build machines to kill them.

Of course we are entering a Guns or Butter economy.   Wartime spend spend spend....