• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The complexity lies in motors, sensors and actuators and especially the software to tie it all together. I’m pretty sure they got help in all of those areas. Which is not in any way meant to minimise their own achievements.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      I mean, they probably aren’t’t producing any of the hardware. You can pretty easily build very similar UAVs to the ones used in Ukraine just ordering through your local hobby shop.

      The difficult part is in assembly, but it’s about the same technical level as building a PC at home. Likely the only difference between what they have and what you can build at home is the hardware/programming they’re using to jump frequencies so they’re harder to highjack or shutdown remotely.