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

[+] TheDrink@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.