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Where did you say “the property is large enough”?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16404025 Done here.
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What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Investigated
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Re: What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Crash Is Being Investigated
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A few ounces of shaped charge at altitude would likely lead to explosive decompression. At lower altitude, less impact, though it would still be problematic. Keeping the charge on the target aircraft whilst it climbed to cruising height is likely the hard part.
Many consumer grade drones can’t fly high enough to get to an altitude where “explosive decompression” would be an issue. 5k ft is pretty doable, 10k ft is unlikely, 15k+ altitude is basically not tangible currently.
If the drone mates with the aircraft on ground (say, during taxiing), then all it has to do is hang on to some prespecified pressurisation point.
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I think that's ridiculous. Pilots are correctly very reluctant to hit things. Historically, we have wanted them to do their best to avoid that. You could argue that we should now train pilots to carefully pause and consider whether the thing they are about to hit is safe to hit. But for that, you'd have to show that the additional reaction time in avoiding collisions is really net safer. And if you did argue that, yo…
Well by avoiding trying to hit one thing, they hit the ground. That's (arguably?) worse than hitting just about anything else other than perhaps another large aircraft or a missle.
You do realize that the ground has a fixed force based on the landing -- while an accident at 1000 ft with a non gliding helicopter means falling to terminal velocity with certain death?