2026-04-19 13:24 UTC
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@willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-20 01:50
The difference is likely size and expense. Now you don't need a 100 million dollar Boeing 737 sized drone to loiter for 3 hours. Previously small and cheap drones could loiter for 40 mins on an internal battery. Now they can stay up for 3 hours. That can be useful. Of course these mobile wireless recharging stations will become military targets for the opposition. So the overall combat math isn't obvious to me, but it's not a tech I see as obviously useless. This could be much more straightforwardly a win for civilian applications.
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@Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 2026-04-19 17:08
I have a 6 year old electric car that takes 40ish minutes to charge, now BYD has batteries that will go from 10% to 70% in 5-10 mins. In a few years time these drones will be getting charged from a microwave stream of power from a solar array floating in the upper atmosphere.
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@Natanael@slrpnk.net 2026-04-19 13:40
Solar power is still more practical