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Silicon Valley getting back to its roots: the Y Combinator cruise missile (www.ycombinator.com)
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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We are looking for extremely talented aerospace engineers to help bring our prototypes to fruition. If you know any aerodynamics, propulsion, or GNC engineers who are interested in building something incredibly cool and want to make a positive difference in geopolitics, please send them our way!

interested in building something incredibly cool and want to make a positive difference in geopolitics

That is certainly one way of putting it, jesus fucking christ.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

it's also "hey can you make our missile work for us"

you know, they're idea guys

they're also gonna need somebody that knows hydrocodes and microwave engineer and someone who knows imagers and comms and and and

and invariably, at some point, a lawyer

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

they’re idea guys

Please, he prefers "Psychological Operations specialist". From the linkedin of one of the two:

Devan served in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Psychological Operations specialist at a Tactical Psyop Company under 7th Psychological Operations Group.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 months ago

psyop is glorified weaponised advertising

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Easy to arrive at that being the ideal profile:

  • Ufos are a psyop
  • Ufos fly
  • cruise missiles fly
  • hence, cruise missiles are a psyop.
[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
  • birds aren't real
  • birds are government drones
  • birds fly
  • drones fly
  • cruise missiles fly
  • hence, government drones are cruise missiles
  • hence, just strap a claymore to a quadrocopter and government will pay for it
[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

I mean, hand grenades dropped from quadcopter were unironically effective against Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the early days, and arguably a lot of the current emphasis on FPV drones and loitering munitions represent an evolution of the same tactical concept.

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

Tactical Psyop Company

underbarrel t-shirt cannons? clearing rooms by being the worst, loudest sealion possible? or just the usual thinly-veiled torture?

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Can anyone translate that into English? I'm worried that description means he was online posting memes. If it does then I am not laughing nearly hard enough.