lets be real, fiat is the only thing holding us back.
also you don't need a fleet, you just need like 3-4 scanner ones with very good cameras high up to cover 100000's of acres, and then the fleet comes.
I bet the live sats we have could do it as well, you can see what they did to gaza on google maps, where did those 2.1 million people go? all i see is ruble.
Reality is holding us back. How large will these drones have to be? If you want to carry water, it's heavy. If you want to carry extinguisher, you need to get close. Have you ever seen windshear above a wildfire?
I asked AI about monitoring an area the size of White River National Forest 24/7 with drones, taking into account mountain terrain and curvature of the earth:
Area 9,308 km²
Flat-land baseline drone count ~745 drones
With mountain/terrain complexity ~2,235 drones
With 24/7 rotation & redundancy ~6,700 drones
Drone Capabilities (realistic high-end surveillance drones):
Altitude: Up to 3,000–5,000 m AGL (Above Ground Level)
Camera FoV / Coverage: High-resolution gimbal camera covering ~1–2 km radius effectively at altitude
Flight Time: ~4 hours per drone (battery-powered)
Speed: ~50–80 km/h
Autonomous area scan ability with GPS waypointing
That's not the fleet - that's just the scanner ones with very good cameras as high as possible. You'll also need
- Central coordination/control systems
- Redundant power and charging infrastructure.
- Fleet drones to douse the flames.
... for every national park or forest area.
How much would you like to bet?

Ill bet all my btc because it is worthless to me and the future of our species.
Your grok chatgpt or whatever ass you are using is simply wrong.
They have live feeds already from space of ENTIRE HEMISPHERES.
Also a work around is just to set up cams on trees everywhere on a mesh network (solar power)
However the drones putting out the fires would be op. We can create missles that blow up everything I am sure we can make kamakazi drones that put out fires before they get to nutty. The winds would not matter to the sacrifice of dah drone.
50 km per hour? dood my drones go 400 mp h
This is from your God thougtbot/clever bot I mean chatgpt
How Many Drones to watch White River National Forest fully?
For Continuous Monitoring: Let’s assume you want to have continuous aerial coverage over the entire White River National Forest. You'd need several drones to ensure there’s always one in the air, while others are charging or in maintenance. For full 24/7 monitoring, you’d likely need:
At least 10–20 drones for rotation, depending on their endurance and coverage capacity.24/7 coverage requires staggered flight times, so while some drones are charging, others are actively flying.
how many to fully cover it permanently?
100 Drones for direct coverage, assuming overlap and periodic recharging, could handle the entire forest.
wow 100 big number
so build a solar field next to them and its gg wildfires.
btw earth is headed for a ice age anyways, a really really bad ice age is coming soon, so i guess we wont have to worry about that anyways.