pkt on Nostr: Stoppable bombs for drones like this are actually quite a nice innovation. That plane ...

Stoppable bombs for drones like this are actually quite a nice innovation. That plane can carry a ~100kg bomb, so the additional damage from the plane itself is insignificant. Also, a streamlined bomb can penetrate further into a building than an entire plane, doing a lot more damage for the same amount of explosives.

Meanwhile, there's usually weaker targets nearby – like electrical switchgear – that can be usefully damaged by a Cessna-scale plane without any explosives at all.

So dropping a bomb and then crashing the drone gets twice as many attacks for about the same cost.