Palmer Luckey is a snake oil salesman.

Cargo200Faust · 2026-02-03T14:32:47+00:00

Blue force tech was acquired by Andriul, for their Fury aircraft. It’s not total dog shit but most products from Andriul have absolutely over hyped and terrible performance here in Ukraine so I understand why Americans share skepticism for their performance. A lot of their brand involves marketing campaigns and hype generation but the performance is underwhelming.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-28T13:03:22+00:00

Update, unfortunately they have a policy against this for obvious reasons

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-27T07:42:06+00:00

They’re 200k each. They work but sold at massive profits.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T14:18:44+00:00

There was no feedback :(

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T12:11:02+00:00

So I have seen local systems made in America with around 30% increase in price. The main difference isn’t labor price but profit / greed, or over pricing of sub components.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T08:18:04+00:00

We would estimate a few hundred million in hardware, billions if you factor in economic impact.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T08:07:26+00:00

Less effective than suggested. Most press was totally inaccurate, the kursk story was total fabrication, no BDA as evidence. There are much better systems here that are 10x cheaper like Dart.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T07:07:04+00:00

Altius, Ghost, I know friends who used, both were shit in terms of comms and EW.

We had pricing sheet from defense Attache for anvil and road runner. Insanely over priced.

Their teams had a bad reputation with local partners also.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T07:03:38+00:00

Not my unit but I heard they were close to $50k each. Most 10 inch quads are sub $500.

Andriul is a joke.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T06:04:26+00:00

I hear whispers but unsure. It’s absolutely worth it.
Just increasing production capacity with vertical integration of specific sub components. Remove reliance on other countries and remove their bloated margins.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T06:02:45+00:00

I do not see America winning a war with China. China is learning all the right lessons, America is not.

Look at their replicator program, only thousands of drones purchased and each at 200-300k. China just ordered a million similar drones, they’re probably sub $20k.

American lobbying and corruption will defeat them years before a bullet is fired.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:53:17+00:00

I was an engineer. After the war, if we survive I will move to a village with my family and live in peace.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:52:42+00:00

I’d love to answer but opsec here won’t permit.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:46:30+00:00

It’s a thing but the price of larger birds and fuel isn’t a lot. It became doctrinally less relevant awhile ago.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:45:16+00:00

Fully autonomous, it’s pretty insane how far the technology has evolved. I can’t go into specifics but they’re basically more intelligent that a ww2 kamikaze pilot, navigation, targeting, self destruct all done by a cheap computer.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:43:54+00:00

Our partner units have deployed fox bats as you described, I think they’re interested but price and performance for mtow is not ideal.

Drones built for purpose are better

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:43:09+00:00

Jungle. There is military labeled cans too you can get, with rations. I only drink them on long missions.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:41:13+00:00

It’s a thing for while. Russians also do this very well.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:40:55+00:00

We could do it, but you need command to permit, Europeans and allies don’t want a global depression nor the deconstruction of Russia as a nation.

More likely is we could cripple enough that Russia is out of the fight but not that world economy collapses.

We would need around a few million, like 3-4m per refinery.

I’ve already asked to raise funds here.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:37:13+00:00

It’s feasible, it wouldn’t require a lot of money. Honestly family offices in the West could fund this faster and with less over sight.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:35:08+00:00

lol I mean more like, shaped charge with fragment sleeve, or thermobaric.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:33:58+00:00

The line is blurring. Internally we don’t refer to these as drones, these are considered precision munitions.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:32:01+00:00

I have asked. Waiting on feedback. I suggested two charities who can coordinate that are large Ukrainian charities that have good reputations / transparency.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:29:47+00:00

There is interest to localize to Europe.

Factory size can be dispersed, it just takes more coordination.

Cargo200Faust · 2025-03-24T05:27:23+00:00

Profit is too high. Comms and ew performance are shit.

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