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This had me curious enough to do the napkin math
A single water bomber has about 6,140kg of water/suppressant payload. A single heavy-lift cargo hexacopter drone has a payload capacity of 8.7kg
It would take 706 drones to exceed one water bomber, but they would naturally be far more spread out and thus far less effective. There is at least 4 water bombers I've seen deployed to California, so at 2,800+ drones, it would be one of the single largest drone performances ever and probably about as effective as pissing on it
I guess you could remote pilot a water bomber and call it a drone but that seems pointless. With multiple drones using that little water the heat from the fire would evaporate I would guess all of it. You'd get a nice steam cloud at best. Probably fuck up a lot of drones in the process what with the heat they're flying over and all that steam, neither are great for electronics that aren't nearly as well protected as on a damn plane and also on a plane aren't absolutely essential, at least the plane becomes a glider
That is for sure the biggest thing, why drone? Using drones doesn't have any benefit let alone the potential downsides. I guess maybe using them for closer recon for where best to send the planes isn't the worst idea.
I think a decent amount of people think of technology like it works in civ or like Pokémon evolutions, manned plane is lower on the tech chain than drone so when drone is unlocked it replaces all your plane units with drones and drones are better than planes in every category. It seems to be a very linear and fatalistic fantasy. Technology is just applied science and it's silly to believe that the end result of newer science is gonna replace our already existing solutions to already solved problems. Scientists aren't working on solved problems.
I wanna play some of those kinda games but also my job is incredibly logistics based. Working expo in a kitchen is amazingly similar to playing Papers Please but also cooking. Sorta enjoying solving these kinda things under pressure is why I'm good as hell at it but it means I'm less inclined towards it in my free time
and if they go haywire like the last big drone show in the US did, then you're just creating even more fires