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		dzhiurgis on Feb 17, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What May Be U.S.’s First Drone-Linked Aircraft Cra... Was it 2kg or 0.5kg drone? Is there much difference between two, afaik all of them are more or less plastic. If planes and helicopter are ok with hitting birbs, perhaps we should regulate drone manufacturing to be more like birbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl-27Bk_RME

huffpopo on Feb 18, 2018 [–]

Drones have harder parts and I would expect hardness to play a big role in damage done. But it doesn't even need to be hard, raindrops can also do a fair amount of expensive damage.

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