https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/good-wood-4915226

Article from 2003, but it does specifically mention wooden props for UAVs. You can run them into nets and recover the drone while only breaking a relatively cheap wooden prop.

I assume it's a similar problem WW2 Japan ran into. They tried cheapening and lightening kamikaze by removing the landing gear, but quickly found that if a plane couldn't find a target, then they would have to ditch, wasting the entire plane.

Note how these drones lack landing gear.

There's also other considerations mentioned in the article that may make wood better for this application, but I don't have information.

Here is an actual timeline of US-Iran history -

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/a-timeline-of-u-s-iran-relations

I don't know where you get your information but you should avoid that source from now on.

> Pakistan is a nuclear power with a GDP per capita only a little lower than India’s. Is Pakistan a developed country?

But they lack a space program and nearly a trillion in exports. And again "per capita" vs "total" is worth acknowledging, even if you reject its role in defining development.

> Here, I’ll do one better. Iran. Higher GDP per capita than India, space program, possibly nuclear status soon. Are they a developed country? If not, is it just the figure of exports that matters, not the distribution of that figure?

It's the combination of factors, as I've said from the start.

And on a rather peaceful country such as mine at that!

I think we´d probably be the last or one of the last countries anyone thought something like this would happen

You can’t just make up your own metric of judging whether a country is developed or developing, and decide that everyone should update their dictionary.

Pakistan is a nuclear power with a GDP per capita only a little lower than India’s. Is Pakistan a developed country?

Here, I’ll do one better. Iran. Higher GDP per capita than India, space program, possibly nuclear status soon. Are they a developed country? If not, is it just the figure of exports that matters, not the distribution of that figure?

Feels like Latvia missed a golden opportunity to try and overthrow Putin's regime.

Wood is a very light weight material though? The volumetric mass of wood is like half that of aluminium.

It's also cheap and abundant. Makes sense for a single-use drone from an embargoed county.

And that's almost "good" compared to the current situation. With inflation rates soaring near 10%, $100 in 20 years will be like $15 and that's assuming inflation doesn't get WORSE.

I'm choosing to look at something other than India's astonishing capacity to produce new humans, such as their membership in a small club as a nuclear power with a space program, and VAST exports.

I'm also choosing not to insult you despite your need to descend to that level.

GDP per capita is the main metric used to label a country “developing”. If you decide to ignore the most key metric, you’re choosing to be a moron.

I lost whatever braincells I had left, when I read this uneducated comment.

I would point out that per capita GDP is just one metric, not the whole.

It's much more than just oil, India has absorbed quite a bit of manufacturing market share from China.

Look at GDP per capita. Iraq has GDP per capita twice that of India. You going to call Iraq a developed country?

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We can use nuclear power... Land based reactors are not banned. There were even proposals once upon a time for some nuclear plants somewhere around Auckland, and we had a research reactor in Christchurch I believe.

I'm no droneologist, but heavy bulk is perfect for building up kinetic energy during a fall. I expect that's quite useful for suicide drones like this.

So this is where South Park Banks money goes to

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The wut

He's a right wing delusional lunatic. Don't waste your time seeking logic out of a fool like that.