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supersquirrel sopuli.xyz supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-12-09
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Why are you hyperfocusing on the Sauron part? Look how white and pure Shadowfax is!!

Surely we aren't the baddies!

https://defence-blog.com/israeli-firm-develops-shadowfax-drone-with-sauron-turret/

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πŸ‰ DrRedOctopus πŸ™πŸ‰ lemmy.world IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-29
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These mf watched LOTR (of course they wouldn't read a book), and side with the personification of pure evil.

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Beacon fedia.io Beacon@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-07-16
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"We've created a real life version of the torment nexus from the famous book Never Create The Torment Nexus"

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moonshadow slrpnk.net moonshadow@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-11-12
#4 · Quote Reply

Love how the gun is a perfectly normal AR with grips, sights, stocks and everything kinda just strapped on there

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Hubi feddit.org Hubi@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-22
#5 · Quote Reply

This thing looks way more scuffed than the ones that the Ukrainians are fielding.

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wedge multiverse.soulism.net wedge@multiverse.soulism.net
Joined: 2026-02-03
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I can’t tell if the names or satire or real and honestly… ffs lol

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cecilkorik lemmy.ca cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-14
#7 · Quote Reply

Love how the gun is a perfectly normal AR with grips, sights, stocks and everything kinda just strapped on there

We have entered the era of drone technicals. Behold the future of warfare.

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supersquirrel sopuli.xyz supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-12-09
#8 · Quote Reply

"We've created a real life version of the torment nexus from the famous book Never Create The Torment Nexus"

Kids this is why we make you read fiction in school and challenge you to analyze it critically.

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Gork sopuli.xyz Gork@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-01
#9 · Quote Reply

Why is it holding the rifle Aussie-style?

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supersquirrel sopuli.xyz supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-12-09
#10 · (edited) Quote Reply

Why is it holding the rifle Aussie-style?

Less chance of jamming, that is why some early machine guns had top feeds/magazines, gravity and stuff you know.

The reason humans dont do this is they have more chance of jamming upside down so it cancels out.

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thethrilloftime69 feddit.online thethrilloftime69@feddit.online
Joined: 2026-02-12
#11 · Quote Reply

Palantir was one thing, but Shadowfax is going too far

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NigelFrobisher aussie.zone NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-08-07
#12 · Quote Reply

Show me the meaning of hate, Shadowfax.

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ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace piefed.ca ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-12-21
#13 · Quote Reply

Are they fucking serious?

When is the Tolkien estate going to sue all these companies like Palantir and shit for using LOTR names for weapons and surveillance systems meant to subjugate and kill people?

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magnetosphere fedia.io magnetosphere@fedia.io
Joined: 2023-06-30
#14 · Quote Reply

At least the name Palantir is appropriately sinister for the technology. Using the name Shadowfax for a combat drone just feels wrong. It would be more tolerable if it was an especially fast scout or something.

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J92 lemmy.world J92@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-21
#15 · Quote Reply

So its got 30 odd rounds then you get a load of free and expensive hardware to keep once you tip it over?

They probably stick explosives in it too.

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ikt aussie.zone Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-17
#16 · Quote Reply

What is non-credible about this?

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pulsewidth lemmy.world pulsewidth@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-01-29
#17 · Quote Reply

These mf watched LOTR (of course they wouldn't read a book), and side with the personification of pure evil.

One of the biggest US companies works closely with the US intelligence industry and DoD to provide them very in-depth surveillance, facial recognition, customer tracking via payment systems, and AI-assisted target acquisition systems and many highly concerning privacy-invading tools.

They call themselves Palantir.

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πŸ‰ DrRedOctopus πŸ™πŸ‰ lemmy.world IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-06-29
#18 · Quote Reply

One of the biggest US companies works closely with the US intelligence industry and DoD to provide them very in-depth surveillance, facial recognition, customer tracking via payment systems, and AI-assisted target acquisition systems and many highly concerning privacy-invading tools. They call themselves Palantir.

yhea,I know.

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Mirshe lemmy.world Mirshe@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
#19 · Quote Reply

These mf watched LOTR (of course they wouldn't read a book), and side with the personification of pure evil.

Literally actually yes. Thiel and his ilk think Sauron just didn't have enough focus on PR.

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ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace piefed.ca ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-12-21
#20 · (edited) Quote Reply

Guys, we should all write to the Tolkien Estate to denounce the use of names from the Lord of the Rings for weapons and tools of mass surveillance. Let's all write a letter condemning this and asking them to do something aboutit.

The Tolkien Estate

c/o Curtis Brown Heritage

Cunard House

15 Regent Street

London

SW1Y 4LR

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RedSnt β™ΎοΈπŸ¦‹β™‚οΈπŸ‘“πŸ–₯️🐧 feddit.dk RedSnt@feddit.dk
Joined: 2023-06-18
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Why is it holding the rifle Aussie-style?

What with the drum magazine it seems easier to change the magazine if the gun is upside down. I'm just surised they didn't use a bullpup.

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CookieOfFortune lemmy.world CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#22 · Quote Reply

We have entered the era of drone technicals. Behold the future of warfare.

Isn’t this basically Ukraine? The original grenade drop drones just used off the shelf drones and actuated the grenade stop with the light switch.

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RiceMunk sopuli.xyz RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-05
#23 · Quote Reply

Are they fucking serious? When is the Tolkien estate going to sue all these companies like Palantir and shit for using LOTR names for weapons and surveillance systems meant to subjugate and kill people?

Just imagine what would happen if that was the Pikachu drone with a BOWSER turret

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Korhaka sopuli.xyz Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-01-14
#24 · Quote Reply

It looks cool, but I have an idea...

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supersquirrel sopuli.xyz supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-12-09
#25 · Quote Reply

Literally actually yes. Thiel and his ilk think Sauron just didn't have enough focus on PR.

If Sauron had kept his objectives confined to within Germany he would have not been bad, it was just Sauron's expansionist tendencies that made him "evil".

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supersquirrel sopuli.xyz supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-12-09
#26 · Quote Reply

It looks cool, but I have an idea...

Yeah, we already got that.

https://www.beyondallreason.info/unit/cortrem

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FoxtrotDeltaTango sh.itjust.works FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-01-20
#27 · Quote Reply

Guys, we should all write to the Tolkien Estate to denounce the use of names from the Lord of the Rings for weapons and tools of mass surveillance. Let's all write a letter condemning this and asking them to do something aboutit. The Tolkien Estate c/o Curtis Brown Heritage Cunard House 15 Regent Street London SW1Y 4LR

I agree!

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