I'm honestly surprised people didn't come up with that long before electronic communication.
Not so much the clacks, but flag semaphore towers were a thing long before the electric telegraph was invented. Infact, the term "Telegraph" predates the device we all think by several centuries.
And there are some pretty awesome systems, like the Chappe telegraph which is about 50 years older than the electric telegraph and had hundreds of kilometers of line between french cities, venice and Amsterdam when people started building electric systems.
The downside is that you need at least one operator per tower, every 10 or so kilometers, even if nobody lives there.
Shaheds don't have any sensors other than a pretty crappy camera (on some of them) and some GPS navigation. The Verba manpad bolted on doesn't have any sensors except on the missile after firing.
I'm sure I could outrun a koala bear. Which isn't fighting, and koala's aren't bears, but I totally could!
Also, technically, I can beat any bear in a fistfight, because bears can't make fists and would thus be disqualified immediately upon disemboweling me!
That's the difference they don't understand. They think you hate them because of who they are (because thats what they do), when we actually hate them for very clearly defined actions and behaviours that they chose to take.
Not so much the clacks, but flag semaphore towers were a thing long before the electric telegraph was invented. Infact, the term "Telegraph" predates the device we all think by several centuries.
And there are some pretty awesome systems, like the Chappe telegraph which is about 50 years older than the electric telegraph and had hundreds of kilometers of line between french cities, venice and Amsterdam when people started building electric systems.
The downside is that you need at least one operator per tower, every 10 or so kilometers, even if nobody lives there.