r/interestingasfuck • u/Red_Lotus_Alchemist • 2d ago

/r/all A Chinese earthquake rescue team deployed drones to light up the night and aid search and rescue operations after the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar.

62.7k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1.1k

u/Grimour 2d ago

I think you are focusing on the wrong part. A lot of Ukrainians would have died instead if they did not use the drones as weapons and robo dogs for reconnaissance. It really helps leviate some of the dread of going into not secure zones. The Russians could stay home if they didn't like the killing of innocents so much.

645

u/BolunZ6 2d ago

People said the same when they first invented machine gun. "If only one person can fire at the rate of 100 peson, we don't have to send 99 person to the war thus saving life"

Yeah we already see how it turned out when ww2 with machine gun technology

27

u/Grimour 2d ago

Why was the machine gun effective? Because of armies swarming the front. That is no longer a viable strategy on the battlefield. Things have changed for the better for the average man, who was a war puppet yesterday.

10

u/Force-4842 2d ago

Still a war puppet today

4

u/igotthisone 2d ago

Sure, but he was yesterday too.