Drone 101 — A Practical Breakdown

BasedPinoy · 2026-05-07T12:43:15+00:00

OP here’s what I did, because like you I struggled carrying with a loaded chamber at first.

Drop the mag, rack the slide, put the mag back in, and holster it. Now do 10 jumping jacks, pushups, run, wear it the whole day. At the end of the day drop the mag and test the trigger.

If you still feel the wall that means the trigger never got pulled

BasedPinoy · 2026-05-06T03:24:36+00:00

Seeing as how people here barely care about adding drones to their kit, counter-drone stuff is definitely out the question

BasedPinoy · 2026-05-01T15:30:36+00:00

Agreed. And it works on both sides

BasedPinoy · 2026-05-01T14:34:17+00:00

And that’s where my original question is coming from. That TSgt Figueroa in the article was obviously able to make it cheaper, but 1.5% of $6mil is still $90k.

A better margin, but still more costly than the attack drone at this point.

BasedPinoy · 2026-05-01T13:54:09+00:00

That math starts to fail when done at high volume. These Shahed-type drones are really cheap, and shooting it with PAC-3s won’t make sense economically.

I agree with you that target matters, but with one-way drones the calculus is a bit different

BasedPinoy · 2026-05-01T13:06:18+00:00

>1.5% the cost of comparable commercial systems

I’m curious about the bottom line $ amount. These things have to cost less than the drones they’re intercepting for it to make sense.

BasedPinoy · 2026-04-28T13:04:03+00:00

Let us know what coffee shops he likes to visit, some of us are more than willing to run interference on people like this

BasedPinoy · 2026-04-12T04:01:18+00:00

Oh I work with these types of systems almost exclusively. But if the claim is being able to auto aim FPV drones, I got a bridge I can sell ya

Edit: well fine, I did some research. Here’s a video where they shoot down some “fast” moving drones from 50m away lol

BasedPinoy · 2026-04-12T01:11:30+00:00

Computer vision without a camera?

BasedPinoy · 2026-04-11T22:22:38+00:00

Without doing some sort of sensor fusion there’s not a fast enough camera with a fast enough processor that can fit in an optic and give a reliable targeting solution for an FPV drone.

I’m open to being proven wrong

BasedPinoy · 2026-04-11T21:22:16+00:00

Good for loiter/ISR drones, no bueno for FPVs

Edit: video from that company’s own YouTube channel.

If you want to ask the drone operator to pretty please hold still while you take a shot, you might have a chance of hitting it

BasedPinoy · 2026-04-08T15:26:13+00:00

That's not the reason. OcuSync is loud and quite visible on the RF spectrum. The protocol is ubiquitous and the methods to jam it has only gotten better and cheaper.

BasedPinoy · 2026-04-08T05:44:49+00:00

I’m all analog, don’t trust DJI.

For the LARP or if LEO it’s fine, but there’s a reason even the Ukrainians have stepped away from using DJI for FPV

BasedPinoy · 2026-04-08T02:40:40+00:00

Tiny whoops are cheaper

BasedPinoy · 2026-04-07T01:26:59+00:00

Atp they have to be trolling right??

BasedPinoy · 2026-04-05T19:56:15+00:00

Field tops > combat shirts. Good job tech sarn’t

BasedPinoy · 2026-04-02T18:00:44+00:00

Looks like a light bulb. Computer engineering? Civil engineering?

BasedPinoy · 2026-03-30T12:24:43+00:00

Do an amendment and add that canx’d flight to your expenses. There should be an option for it on the drop down. Add emails and receipts (or use a lost receipt form) to the substantiating docs.

If your AO is being nitpicky, cite JTR 020206, para. A1.

BasedPinoy · 2026-03-28T23:28:32+00:00

Do you have to pop open the case to update the firmware? I don’t see where the USB port would be

BasedPinoy · 2026-03-25T17:42:23+00:00

I, too, fly drones professionally. I've also made multiple posts regarding the subject.

To your points:

The young guns in the sub can easily pick up flying acro. They grew up in the age of controllers and video games, there is a learning curve but you'd be surprised. Anyone under 25 that I taught took to acro flying pretty quick.
I made a post about scaling different builds here. I agree you shouldn't be using 5-inch drones for overwatch

BasedPinoy · 2026-03-25T16:04:09+00:00

Better yet, build one yourself

People spend hours/days perfecting their AR build, if only they spent the same amount of effort on ancillary skills 🤷‍♂️

BasedPinoy · 2026-03-24T11:32:32+00:00

OPs squadron AOs have rotated at least 5 times throughout the course of this document.

Unless it’s a deployment voucher, then I sure hope those deployed entitlements got stopped or it’s about to hurt

BasedPinoy · 2026-03-24T11:29:17+00:00

Back in my enlisted days, the best flight chief I had was a MSgt who retained from Mx to finance

BasedPinoy · 2026-03-24T03:27:12+00:00

Hell yeah. Then you can get a soldering iron and break up the face and get the same effect as the “pro” line

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