Thread 63837100

Why does the US military use DJI Mavics?

For the same reason they use windows XP, its abundant and good enough.

>>63837209
Except that windows XP is American made software while DJI drones are made in China use Chinese made software. Don't you see a problem?

>>63837100 (OP)
This parade is the most disappointing parade of all time. It tops the absolute embarrassment that is the Russian military parades post invasion. Lack of enthusiasm from the soldiers and people attending, there were more soldiers than people at the parade and the protest against the parade is thousands of times larger. It was originally supposed to be a small parade too. Overall, it doesn’t look good for the administration and hopefully this is the last attempt to copy china/Russia.

Man what the fuck is this stupid ass parade even the Indian ones look better

>>63837209
>its abundant
china can cut the supply to 0 at any moment or hijack the drones via some backdoor vulnerability.

>>63837946
>hijack the drones via some backdoor vulnerability.
You're kidding, right?

>>63837100 (OP)
>let's just carry the drone, 差不多

>dude picks up the malfunctioning drone and pretends he's doing a physical display but quickly realises he can't hold it in that position for long and tries to awkwardly switch hands

APOLOGISE TO ALGERIA NOW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAUyNtapFHs

>>63838054
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/what-is-chinese-kill-switch-found-in-equipment-at-us-solar-firms-trigger-national-security-fears-/articleshow/121440168.cms

only the chinese know whats in the source code of the drone software. they could hide a lot of special "features" in there if they wanted to.

>>63838163
yes, I'm sure the US military just makes daily runs to Best Buy and immediately starts using these drones without doing extensive research and testing prior to usage.
holy fuck you are retarded.

>>63838167

it was the first result when i googled it. calm down.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/ghost-machine-rogue-communication-devices-found-chinese-inverters-2025-05-14/

here is the same news from reuters.

>>63838172
ive never heard of the us military writing software for dji drones. i highly doubt that they do. i think they really use the chinese software, because right now they have no alternative to it.

This has been the most shittiest, lazy and cringe military parade of this century. They didn't even try. Literally Africa tier parade.
Was this some kind of protest against the administration? It's the only explanation

>>63838195
>ive never heard of the us military writing software for dji drones
so that means that they don't do it?
"They" write software for damn near everything. The NSA specifically does quite a lot of it.

>>63837209
>>63837257
They still use windows XP? Microsoft stopped supporting it years ago

>>63838208
military parades with the exception of bastile day are generally cringe and third world stronigman bullshit and timre better spent training to figth and keeping gear and men ready

>>63838214
they are important for the public, for recruiting and morale. they are also a message for the enemy. it portrays government and societal support and commitment for the military and for defense. in my country (germany) fighting morale is incredibly low and no one would fight for the military because it has 0 support from the politicians and society and dying for it would just be pointless. germanys weakness is its pacifism, everything war and military is looked down upon and this is why the country is a defenseless house of cards.

>>63837355
>>63838208
>>63838214
Americans just don't practice marching (which isn't a bad thing). Even when they march in Europe or Asia, they look like they're taking an evening stroll instead.

>>63838210
i hope so. or else you are in for a nasty surprise when you want to use those drones and suddenly they dont move anymore because some chinese general has ordered dji to activate the kill switch.

>>63838214
So how do you explain the parade the US had after winning WW2? Do you see a difference between this and the shit show from yesterday?

>>63838195
dji drones have an sdk (normally).

>>63838253
these guys would be all labeled natsees by today's US standards

>>63838248
>or else you are in for a nasty surprise
how would this in any way effect me to the point of me being surprised?
Why would I care at all?
even if you were correct and china somehow nuked our shitty little drone capability over night that would just mean the people in charge were retarded and something else would have to be figured out.
Again, doesn't effect you or me.
I'm not the one that signed up to die for israel and was dumb enough to choose a chinese drone MOS

>>63838214

you sounds like a jewish student who strongly opposes the fraternities sex gang parties with female students and demands to move the party to local AIDS and syphilis infested brothel, which is running by your family.

>>63838254
that is nice but doesnt prevent hijacking, when the OS is still chinese.

>>63837100 (OP)
What's more sad, towing a tank or carrying a drone?

>>63838321
>This bullshit again
I'll be your guinea pig and provide the explanation.

It's just the driver being untrained and activating the emergency brake by mistake. It looks bad because the driver wasn't instructed on the emergency brake, which he should have been if he was going to drive it near a crowd in the first place. The tank is fine. They just can't produce it because it's too expensive for them, just like the SU-57. It's one of these programs you need for your MIC to look good on the international market, but can't actually sustain economically. Like the K11.

This is like posting QBZ-191s keyholing at 5 meters because they use rubber bullets or something to not go through their plywood shoothouse, and claim the rifle is shit because of this.

>>63837355
You lost tranny

>>63838208
The only group that looked good were the Revolutionary War reenactors. They looked like they genuinely cared and enjoyed being there.

>>63838253
>after we won the greatest war in our nationms (and human) history
vs.
>Trump's totally-not-birthday in peacetime
See the difference?

>>63838243
They should be able to march in unison at least. That shit is so simple not being able to do it is just extremely lazy or retarded

>>63838243
Not practicing marching is fine in general. Not marching on a parade which is supposed to be a military propaganda piece - that is retarded. Unless it's a military pride parade - then they can do whatever the fuck they want.

>>63838427
Kill yourself retard

>>63838321
Both are very sad for different reasons

>>63838427
>the tank is fine
No it isnt

>>63837100 (OP)
to remind putler whats to come if he doesnt make a deal
>>63838211
they only use xp on old base lan networked computers, anything that has a external connection to the internet uses something different

>>63837355
Why is this dude in a prostitute costume and wearing way too much makeup? Is it Halloween?

>>63837257
Lack of choice I guess, DJI is historically amazing tech for civilians that ushered in and popularized drone footage for shooting videos. Relevant capabilities are probably auto obstacle avoidance and person tracking. Last time American company doing civi drones if I recall was GoPro, and it was shit. They shutdown or sold the whole division years later because they can’t compete in all metrics

>>63837100 (OP)
This thread is an embarrassment for /k/. 38 replies and not one has mentioned this drone isn't the DJI Mavic claimed by OP. It's a Skydio X10D, which is an American company.

>>63837355
Honestly even the Indian parade had effort. this was just sad.

>>63838509
>greatest war in our nation's history
lol

>>63838253
The US is at peace and marching in parade formation isn't very useful in combat.

>>63837355
>hopefully this is the last attempt to copy china/Russia.
Just wait until the republican's copy Russian elections.

>>63838233
Wrong on all fronts, the American military sees parades as worthless dog and pony only for third world dictators and this parade was to honor trump so morale was even loser because every soldier involved knew they were just being used as props.
It'll be interesting to see if there is a rise or decline in enlistment after trump's birthday party, brought to you by Shadow Raid®

>>63837355
>hopefully this is the last attempt to copy china/Russia.
Just wait until the republican's copy Russian sham elections.

>>63838233
Wrong on all fronts, the American military sees parades as worthless dog and pony shows only for third world dictators because America doesn't need to show off their power like everyone else. Worse yet, this parade was to honor trump so morale was even lower because every soldier involved knew they were just being used as props.
It'll be interesting to see if there is a rise or decline in enlistment after trump's birthday party, brought to you by Shadow Raid®

>>63839050
>skydio
>american

>>63842978
I think there is a deeper cultural and philosophical reason for this. The American philosophy is Pragmatism (in the William James sense) which means function over form. The idea of trying to conform to an abstract aesthetic form is not as important as whether something is practically useful or not. If it isn't, we don't particularly care about it.

Bear with me here but think about our Battletech mechas vs. Japanese mechas. Or how our cars and trucks look compared to European or Japanese cars. We like to build stuff that's functional.

China has a military parade every 10 years and they put a lot of effort into it. The soldiers look perfectly rehearsed. There's actually a belief in Confucianism that the truly human (or truly "ren" person) is someone who performs their expected social role in a way that is both effortlessly natural and perfectly rehearsed (and also aesthetically beautiful). Think of traditional Chinese tea ceremonies which have a certain way you're supposed to do it. There's also the "political ritual." This is basically an updated form of something you'd see in a Chinese imperial court. In Confucianism, the body of ritual is what holds the society together more than a system of laws:
https://youtu.be/gFBwXdguRrY

>>63837100 (OP)
lets be real there's a 99% chance the actual drones they use are classified or some dumb shit and they just grabbed some off the shelf crap for the parade i mean the cia leaks from a few months ago had some crazy fucking drones in it

>>63839050
It was announced by name during the parade. Someone even made a joke in the parade thread about an X-Tendies drone.

Nobody replied because this bait thread was part of an enormous spam wave and it doesn't deserve any recognition. They will do it again tomorrow, and next week, and the week after that. You lack discipline.

>>63843501
I don't understand the point of this post

>>63843665
>how our cars and trucks look compared to European or Japanese cars. We like to build stuff that's functional.
Buddy your cars are massively inferior to European ones. Hugely inefficient mileage. Your trucks are oversized and cannot compete with scania or DAF. Tesla is the only leading thing you have, your ICE engines are all shit.

>>63843665
this is the most retarded post I have seen on this board in a very long time (excluding trolls and shills of course)

>>63843806
>Tesla is the only leading thing you have
I'm pretty sure the Chinese and Korean electrics shit all over Tesla now.

>>63843665
>how our cars and trucks look compared to European or Japanese
yeah, burgeristani cars are abject garbage.
even if they weren't, you don't build functional stuff but shit that only exists due to perverse legal incentives and has no market elsewhere

>>63838211
>They still use windows XP? Microsoft stopped supporting it years ago
That's what old Bill Gatleberg wants you to think. In reality, because XP is still ubiquitous on things like ATMs, special distros still get security updates, and if you know what you are doing, you can unpack the update distro for an ATM and repack it for XP Home or XP Professional. I was still doing this until quite recently to support a machine with a microfiche scanner, since the microfiche scanner had software that was abandonware and didn't work on newer machines, but then the mobo on that machine took a shit and fried the board I needed to make a computer talk to the scanner and I had to upgrade to a newer, better supported scanner (for $3600, which is why I went to such great effort to keep my old shit going).

>if we practiced marching for a few hours every 50 years our military would start sucking at actual war
retarded cope

>>63843665
There's pragmatism to every sides. The Chinese(and likewise many of the countries around the world) aren't displaying military parade for just pony trick. Its there as both a warning (to others) and a symbol of pride (from a lower standing). America sits at the top, like a lazy lion looking down at the savana but we can strike to kill easily so we dont need the showcase (as much) since everyone already knows. Same with soviets showing to America, same with those hilarious india<>parades. Same with Korean shits.

>>63838427
>QBZ-191s keyholing at 5 meters because they use rubber bullets
Pic related is of plastic training rounds at 50yds (they don't keyhole).

>>63838211
There is no unsupported version of windows IF you purchase a custom license. It's just the costs of such a thing only work for the example ATMs because it's as complex as an atm needs to be before complexity becomes the bug not the feature.
Windows like 3.1 can still be supported if you have enough unit sales.

>>63844616
As the world hegemonic power, we don't need parades to display power. We don't need to display it because it's real power, not a third-world front like Russia or North Korea. It's better that we don't do these parades at all, much less waste time on practicing the march through our own streets.

>>63838195
https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=de0b52d8b54de362&from=serp&vjs=3

This is a fucking civilian drone medic job and part of it is patching software, meaning all that simple coding hobby guys do in their garage.

https://www.indeed.com/q-military-drone-engineer-jobs.html?vjk=d6c9000274163352

Same thing but you also have to create and implement fixes at a higher level.

>>63838195
My 4 year old has a robot toy that teaches her programming logic. You think americans don't code or something lol? Wtf shithole are you from, you love Java don't you.

>>63840547
Not Officer Material.

>>63838253
i see you fucked the aspect ratio you mong

>>63840528
America invented drone war.

>>63844354
As a man who's first audio edits were reel to reel with tape and a razor, don't forget to teach some kid.

>um we're actually powerful so we don't need to :)
boring mindset. it would be funny as fuck to beat the third world dictators at their own game and still having the military power to back it up

>>63844839
then why buy a chinese drone, when you have to take it apart, analyze the hardware, basically probe every circuit and transistor cap for unwanted devices and possible exploits that the chinese could have built in and then delete the whole operating system and steering software and dev up a new one, then test it and compare it with the original, until you can finally securely use the drone?

that makes no sense. that would cost more than just simply developing your own domestic drone. at that point why even bother with a chinese drone?

>>63844946
america would have to win a war first

>>63838211
The US Navy still uses MS-DOS for their kitchen management software.

>>63837257
>DJI drones are made in China use Chinese made software. Don't you see a problem?

which china got given free technical data packets and tooling to build it in the first place

>>63844946
>We can beat third world dictatorships
>By being a third world dictatorship...but better!
>It'll be so much fun!
Tarded

>>63844971
>military parades=dictatorship
Did you watch a lot of scary news coverage from red square in your younger boomer days?

>>63843665
There's some truth to what you're saying but this is a notoriously difficult topic to wrestle with, as evident by the two faggots thinking this was a post about cars. It's not reasonable to say that people in America subscribe to pragmatism and they collectively view parades as impractical. The more likely explanation is that America as a country arose out of rebellion against a monarchy and anything seen as honoring a man above the nation is viewed as antithetical to what the country was founded on. You don't need to be a pragmatist to have an issue with the optics.

>>63837100 (OP)
They are probably still waiting to their quad procurement for the next 5 years and just got some DJIs for the parade so it looks like drone intergration is already widespread.

>>63837355
The corporate sponsorship embodied everything wrong with it.

>>63845010
in america it has always been normal for politicians to get their campaigns funded by corporations. the alternative would be to allocate tax payer money to political parties to make them independent of rich people donations. germany does that, but corporate lobbying still gets through to the politicians.

>>63845084
Heaps of countries allow the legal corruption that is political donations, find me another that has "military parade presented by X".

>>63838181
>it was the first result when i googled it. calm down.
that means you're a poo

>>63845084
Yes Yes, we know American politicians are corrupt fuckers who get bribed by zjews and corporations.

>>63839050
It should have been obvious to anyone who isn't a nodronz that the US military wouldn't use a geofenced drone using proprietary Chinese software that wouldn't even let the operator launch without begging dji/faa for permission to fly within a few miles of a restricted zone. The people here are so stupid that they think Ukraine makes their own drones instead of just soldering together commercially available chinese parts like any hobbyist is capable of.

>>63842978
>Just wait until the republican's copy Russian sham elections.
Democrats attempted to murder the rival political candidate after conjuring 80 million votes out of thin air in the previous election under crisis cover

>the American military sees parades as worthless dog and pony shows only for third world dictators
Americans used to be able to march in a straight line, it's not hard

>because America doesn't need to show off their power like everyone else
America just lost our longest war for libtarded political reasons and in the process of it let very bad culture take root in the US Military

>Worse yet, this parade was to honor trump
It was the Army's 250th birthday

>so morale was even lower because every soldier involved knew they were just being used as props
we like Trump you retard
(though D&C events are notoriously always a little gay)

get raped, libtard

>>63845939
This, the parade being bad was biden's fault.

>>63845939
>>63846837
>get raped,
It's that sonyfag from /v/ who spams CPs, what a weird place for him to show up in.

>>63838195
>>63844839
>>63844955
you stupid fucking motherfuckers
it's not a DJI
it's an American drone >>63839050

>>63837100 (OP)
Pretty sure those are Anafi Parrots bro
https://www.parrot.com/en/use-cases/military-and-defense
Not a DJI

>>63847115
Skydio X10D

>>63845939
>we lost afghanistan cuz libruls or something
>we love trump
I'm gonna enjoy cumming in your girlfriend while you stand watch in Qatar. Faggot-ass little zoom zoom boot.

>>63847101
>>63847115
>>63847124
oh, well...then nevermind. i take everything back.