• First Russian mail delivery by drone crashes after take-off
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First Russian mail delivery by drone crashes after take-off The republic of Buryatia’s capital of Ulan-Ude was chosen as a testing ground for the Russian Post’s mail deliveries to remote regions by drone.  In the trial, the Russian-made drone was due to carry a 2-kilogram package to a nearby village, but smashed into the wall of a nearby house shortly after take off, Baikal-media.ru reported Monday. The damage was estimated at 1.2 million rubles ($21,000), according to the Moskovsky Komsomolets tabloid. https://leonardo.osnova.io/60e5df4e-3a28-4845-8433-d15e658197a7/
1.2 million rubles seems expensive for a drone.
probably the package, which brings to the question WHY THE FUCK DID THEY TRIAL WITH SUCH EXPENSIVE ITEMS
They clearly didn't think it would crash.
Good thing it didn't have a bride in it.
:V: https://youtu.be/7WKH8nl0TE8
Someone is getting purged for this
Even converting it to USD, yeah, damn.
It's a typical commercial price for this kinda drone in the region - when sold to the government.
I expected that the only recording of the crash is actually a dash cam
It appears that Russian drones, much like Russian drivers, are also perpetually drunk when travelling.
What a fucking ripoff, yet another setback to having tiny one man helicopters that act as flying cars of the future.
Clearly the engineers forgot to factor in all the cameras and neurotoxin that were crammed in.
Just picturing a swarm of these things on the battlefield.
If they're going to carry heavy things with these, they need to equip them with automatic parachutes. Looking at the video, probably also need a kill switch to stop the rotors if the hexacopter tilts beyond a certain degree.
Psychological warfare like the Stuka sirens
probably built throught contract from some defense ministry which in turn is from some defense supplier that employed a dozen engineers on the project and then they just took some off the shelf racing drone kit and mailed it to them.
A military-industrial complex is truly a wonderous thing.
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