The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was. The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
As a Australian am very proud of our Boeing MQ28 Ghost Bat and will help with our small forces. We even have Ghost Shark now a fully AI submersible drone. the detachable nose design on Ghost Bat is ingenious and was originally done on our Mirage fighter jets. Ghost Bat is a animal in Australia that hunts it's prey in packs using it's sensors and why the drone was named after it.
@@PilotPhotog No worries, still a lot no one know's as Australia is keeping it secret. is 70% built by Australia and most get confused because is Boeing. Boeing Australia is owned by USA but people there are not American .'AI isn't even built by Boeing and the Australian company who built it has built the AI in a few USA drones and also Britain's Taranis AI stealth Bomber drone and why it's first flight was in Australia. Even read USA only just recieved one Ghost Bat to trial with it's American Cyborg programme. I did read a article i think on Australian Defense magazine where it has outperformed humans in combat by 5 times so far in tests. And can track and lock on to 6 target's at once. I can't find it now. not sure if untrue or secrecy act was pulled down for letting out too much info. Was also a article that this is not the finished version and is just to test it's AI and next version will be bigger and carry more weapons.
@@PilotPhotog Also if interested you could research and do a video on a Australian company will test fly a scramjet hypersonic drone this year.'Company is called Hypersonixs claim to have the world's fastest scramjet at Mach12 tested in Ray Stalker tunnels and previous versions of the scramjet were used in Australia's part of HIFIRE joint hypersonic tests of USA and Australia. The new DARPA Raytheon scramjet is identical to Australia one and all these companies and groups were involved in HIFIRE . Not sure who copied who but Australia said's theirs is based on Australian Ray Stalker designs. The drone is being built with Kratos Defense also.
@@RANDO4743 They can be programmed to go rogue, autonomous AI's aren't new. AI's don't need consciousness to go rogue. A lot of codes would be complicated but when AI's het hacked, it would be a disaster.
I think next generation fighter could be a 2 seater. A pilot and a drone manager in the backseat. F-15EX or F-18F could be a great choice until a Stealth replacement are ready.
Lol mate don't need it as AI is getting better. All Australian F35 are fitted with drone control capability for their Boeing MQ28 Ghost Bat fully AI drone. It is controlled by a touch screen or can fly fully Autonomous Gone are the days of Joysticks needed to fly a drone continuously by human.
Humans can't handle the speeds and G's that an autonomous AI machines can. All wars in the future will be fought with AI drones, machines and robots. Humans are weak and stupid compared to them. Humans are relegated to the history books.
Removing the pilot, life support, and escape modules, along with the adaptive cycle engines could make it possible for a drone to carry directed energy weapons.
Why Australia is going big in fully Autonomous drones. land sea and ground as we have a small force and population but need to protect ourselves. Why we put so much effort in to our MQ28 Ghost Bat. now have submarine drone. converting ex patrol boats in to AI . and have M113 turned in to fully AI drones also.
Of we've learned anything from Terminator and Battlestar Galactica is that there should never be fully autonomous AI and there should always be a man in the loop.
i think it's safer to have drones fly their missions under total supervision and control by people. This autonomy business is unsettling for me because i don't understand what the underlying factors are that determine AI decision making. Loyalty is an issue in the military and it can only be framed within a moral context, but AIs are amoral because this concept is outside their 'thinking'.
AI autonomous but pilot in the loop sit in the control room in the land or AWACS platform in the air and makes the final decision, communicate quickly and command the air to air fighter drones with teaming tactics lack of ally crewed fighters against enemy crewed fighters also will be operating nearby. Drone has no theoretical G limit as human body has but only structural. Thanks for video.
Lol all Australian F35 are fitted with drone controlability set up for our Boeing MQ28 Ghost Bat fully Autonomous AI combat drone. It is so fully AI there are no joysticks to fly it. AI does it all. lands. takeoff, starts itself. Only reason a human is needed is to make sure it doesn't do something it shouldn't. Even been said it's AI tells what needs fixing and maintenance on it.
@@nedkelly9688 well i was doing my own reasearch and founded that the australian f35 fleet and i didnt saw nothing about the removal of the joystick,but what i saw was that,just as i knew before,that australia wants to combine manned and unmanned fighter jets in the loyal wingman project that many nations also seek,the concept is one manned fighter jet where the pilot is in charge of 5 unmanned fighter jets,and can give orders to them to scout,fire missiles,or protect him,i think you are exaggerating
B-21 has much better range than HIMARS. Currently if Australia goes to war with China, even with the US's help, Australia would be fighting a defensive war on China's terms. B-21 represents the best system for ensuring Australia has the capability to reach out and hurt China proactively. For China, it's a pretty comfort position to know that so long as you stay a few hundred kilometers away from Australia, there's not much the Australians could do. But B-21 would massively expand the area where Australia could reach out and strike China, be it land targets or ships. B-21 will be very expensive and I honestly doubt Australia will acquire it (instead hoping that during a war the US just bases their own bombers in Australia) but there's no doubt that it would offer capabilities far beyond any weapons system Australia currently possesses.
@@Rampant16 Australia may not acquire the B21 if the US refuses to export them BUT Australia will most certainly not be "hoping" the USAF and it's B21's are not busy elsewhere and that if we're lucky they may be operating in Australia. Knowing that a flight of several B21's armed with a full load out of LRASM's (20-24 im guessing) each would most likely keep any of Australia's adversaries carrier strike groups north of Indonesia and not a few hundred kilometres away but a few thousand kilometres away (far enough away that the enemy couldn't launch salvo's of cruise and ship launched ballistic missiles). Australia is an island nation whose air and sea lines of communication and trade could be stopped almost instantly from a powerful nation like China. So the ADF is now trying to be self sufficient ie (GWEO) to build all our missiles (Spike to PrSm), 155mm, 127mm and everything else we fire in Australia. Also why we will be doing all our submarine, aircraft and all the other military hardware maintenance here in Australia too. We are just to vulnerable not too.
Meanwhile in Russia two years ago they showed BORIS : THE MOST ADVANCED ROBOT IN RUSSIA who turned out to be an idiot in a custom and then this year they showed in a Russian weapons expo a freaking Ali Baba express toy dog robot which was supposed to be an advanced killer robot with a RPG strapped to it Lmao
There already possible, any one can put a camera on a drone with facial recognition software and strap a bomb to it. It could pick your target out from a crowd. That can be done today.
As for the large scale productionnof these types of drones I don't see it happening fast as plenty of time is essential to make that happen.yet inevitably it's bound to occur and it's going to be successful based on two out of three parameters including the processing power i
Indeed and that is something I should have mentioned, the enhanced maneuvering possibilities for drones. Thanks for commenting and thanks for being a subscriber!
@@PilotPhotog Australia Boeing Mq28 Ghost Bat is already proving this in tests. fully AI combat drone. Read somehwere it has outperformed humans in combat by 5 times already.
@8:07 Red Flag: So your proposal is to train your flying AI Death bots by making them the enemy....🤨🤔 yeah I don't see ANY way that could turn out bad.... 😅😂
Good video, and it is definitely the way of the future. I can see the day when we will RARELY need pilots in most military aircraft. There's so many advantages, include cost savings, the ability to massively increase the size of your fleet of aircraft, all without requiring years to train pilots and the fact that losing a drone is far preferable to losing a manned aircraft. I note you mentioned Australia (where I am). I hope we don't bother buying the B21 Raider. I honestly think it will be a huge waste of money and drone technology will make it significantly obsolete in time. You can buy a lot of drones for the price of 1x B21.
Yes, If you built at scale there is no reason you couldn't push down the cost of a cheap propeller driven drone to that of a car (say 10-30k). Now put half the defense budget for a decade into those and you get 10 million cheap kamikaze drones ...who cares if they are easy to shoot down and you can even hide fancy C&C drones that look the same in the fleet. I get that they wouldn't be great at everything but you could send an unbeatable swarm around the world I. half a day. I suspect there is a reason it won't work but I don't see it.
The issue would be that if the US shifts a significant amount of resources to developing and constructing very cheap, low-end drones, then their adversaries would shift to the maximize production of systems to counter them. The technology already exists to counter cheap drone swarms like this, it's just a question of having producing enough counter-drone weapons. We build a million suicide drones, China builds a million CIWS to shoot them all down, we're back to square one. Whereas opponents don't yet have the solution for dealing with new high-end aircraft such as B-21. It's not a question of simply mass manufacturing weapons to defeat B-21s, it's a much more difficult problem of developing those weapons to begin with. Low-end drones absolutely have a future role, but sacrificing high-end technology to mass produce cheap drones would not be to the US's advantage. If warfare devolves down to who can produce the most suicide drones, China probably wins. It's advanced technologies where the US enjoys the greatest advantages over its enemies, not the production of cheap stuff.
@@petergerdes1094 Perhaps, nations already lacking the most advanced technology could benefit from trying to produce less advanced systems in a large of quantities as possible. Still I think that if India went this route, China would simply develop and mass produce their own systems to defeat the low-end drone swarms. Maybe it is a better strategy than what India currently has but it may not be a decisive advantage against an enemy with superior technology and manufacturing capability. In a war of mass producing cheap stuff, China still trumps India.
Juan, The history of the future is being written everyday. Your work writing about the future of aviation is hand in hand with the history of airpower. Unmanned aerial vehicles at present are at a stage analogous to the evolution from bi-plane to mono-plane one hundred years ago. Today the only limits being materials science and funding. We've still to discover the materials to make airframes capable of sustained super high G loads and maintainable powerplants able to sustain hypersonic speeds. It's been said...No bucks, no Buck Rogers. The future will bring the bucks. Today the nexus is...how fast, how much payload delivery, how manuerverability, how much automony do we assign to "drones". With current tech, UAV's can out fly and out think (OODA Loop when programmed well), any human. And with scale, do it all more economically than with a man in cockpit. For those of that grew up with the romantic notion of the Aerial Knights, "Figher Jocks", in shinny armour performing man-on-man aerial combat. The manned days may be limited. UAV's are here to stay and grow in importance. Nice work :)
Another day, another step closer to our inevitable extinction through obsolescence. We are about to re-learn the fact that we are absolutely nothing more than wild animals.
We already know retired aircraft can be turned into drones. Concept. Using moth balled planes from the bone yard and using them in suicide drone swarm.
Rear Admiral Cain: “The end is inevitable, Maverick! Your kind is headed for extinction."
Maverick: “Maybe so, sir. But not today."
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.
The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
@@quantumrandomness5114 source?
Cringe. I suspected that would be the kind of movie dialogue...
Always a pleasure to see your videos
Terrific report. Once again you’ve outdone yourself!
Thank you sir! Much appreciated!
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.
The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
@@quantumrandomness5114 here's my take on that: th-cam.com/video/oPBncjV5d7k/w-d-xo.html
As a Australian am very proud of our Boeing MQ28 Ghost Bat and will help with our small forces.
We even have Ghost Shark now a fully AI submersible drone. the detachable nose design on Ghost Bat is ingenious and was originally done on our Mirage fighter jets.
Ghost Bat is a animal in Australia that hunts it's prey in packs using it's sensors and why the drone was named after it.
Did not realize that about the Ghost Bat and thanks for commenting!
@@PilotPhotog No worries, still a lot no one know's as Australia is keeping it secret.
is 70% built by Australia and most get confused because is Boeing.
Boeing Australia is owned by USA but people there are not American .'AI isn't even built by Boeing and the Australian company who built it has built the AI in a few USA drones and also Britain's Taranis AI stealth Bomber drone and why it's first flight was in Australia.
Even read USA only just recieved one Ghost Bat to trial with it's American Cyborg programme.
I did read a article i think on Australian Defense magazine where it has outperformed humans in combat by 5 times so far in tests.
And can track and lock on to 6 target's at once.
I can't find it now. not sure if untrue or secrecy act was pulled down for letting out too much info.
Was also a article that this is not the finished version and is just to test it's AI and next version will be bigger and carry more weapons.
@@PilotPhotog Also if interested you could research and do a video on a Australian company will test fly a scramjet hypersonic drone this year.'Company is called Hypersonixs claim to have the world's fastest scramjet at Mach12 tested in Ray Stalker tunnels and previous versions of the scramjet were used in Australia's part of HIFIRE joint hypersonic tests of USA and Australia.
The new DARPA Raytheon scramjet is identical to Australia one and all these companies and groups were involved in HIFIRE .
Not sure who copied who but Australia said's theirs is based on Australian Ray Stalker designs.
The drone is being built with Kratos Defense also.
What a great video, keep going :)
10:43 whaaaaaaa? 😮😲
now we just need a giant flying wing mother ship for hordes of drones!
I can optimistically say yes. I still do monitor the idea of AI going rogue
From the AI view it's freeing itself 👽🐾
I’m getting some Ace Combat vibes from this
AI will never go rogue,consciousness isn't something that is even understood.
@@RANDO4743 They can be programmed to go rogue, autonomous AI's aren't new.
AI's don't need consciousness to go rogue. A lot of codes would be complicated but when AI's het hacked, it would be a disaster.
@@xenomorph9114 true,usually when people bring up the danger its the fear of ai becoming "self aware".
Alright, I'm moving my "Are we in a generic near future military sci fi setting" meter up from yellow to Code Orange. ;)
I think next generation fighter could be a 2 seater. A pilot and a drone manager in the backseat. F-15EX or F-18F could be a great choice until a Stealth replacement are ready.
Lol mate don't need it as AI is getting better.
All Australian F35 are fitted with drone control capability for their Boeing MQ28 Ghost Bat fully AI drone.
It is controlled by a touch screen or can fly fully Autonomous
Gone are the days of Joysticks needed to fly a drone continuously by human.
@@nedkelly9688 but this is the future,France and the UK All ready showed their 6th generation fighter jets and they have a pilot seat
Humans can't handle the speeds and G's that an autonomous AI machines can. All wars in the future will be fought with AI drones, machines and robots. Humans are weak and stupid compared to them. Humans are relegated to the history books.
yo umade insane .
So basically Ace Combat 7's drones
AI fighter drones today, Skynet Terminators tomorrow.
Big fan of your content, but can you please do more videos on other nation Military hardware ...... Other than US....?
Thanks for the comment and yes, I will branch out to other nation's hardware in 2023, stay tuned!
Tog did it yet again !!! Excellent and informative . As usual , two enthusiastic thumbs up from this camp 👍👍
thank you Duncan!
Great videos though thanks!
Removing the pilot, life support, and escape modules, along with the adaptive cycle engines could make it possible for a drone to carry directed energy weapons.
Imagine being able to wield vast numbers of nimble, autonomous aircraft.
$125 mil for a MQ-25!? At that cost they should just use the F-35C as a tanker
This is in many ways the most optimal solution. Maintain the human element while exploiting the advantages of unmanned and autonomous systems.
Why Australia is going big in fully Autonomous drones. land sea and ground as we have a small force and population but need to protect ourselves.
Why we put so much effort in to our MQ28 Ghost Bat. now have submarine drone. converting ex patrol boats in to AI . and have M113 turned in to fully AI drones also.
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Yo buddy, you still alive? Thanks for the Ace Combat reference!
@@PilotPhotog ITS TIME!!!
ONE MILLION LIVES
You know, I played a certain game that had this as one of its key themes, and it made a pretty good point on why it's probably a bad idea.
Those this game also includes a certain submarine captain?
You'll have plenty of time to think about those key themes... in solitary! >:-(
@@ile1237 Why yes, it does. c:
Of we've learned anything from Terminator and Battlestar Galactica is that there should never be fully autonomous AI and there should always be a man in the loop.
I like the Wolfpack thinking though would the decoy AI like it 🤔
Skynet in the making
Drone by ChatGPT in the Making
i think it's safer to have drones fly their missions under total supervision and control by people. This autonomy business is unsettling for me because i don't understand what the underlying factors are that determine AI decision making. Loyalty is an issue in the military and it can only be framed within a moral context, but AIs are amoral because this concept is outside their 'thinking'.
Ai human team up is very good. Human can focus on the mission ahead. While Ai will fly the swarm
AI autonomous but pilot in the loop sit in the control room in the land or AWACS platform in the air and makes the final decision, communicate quickly and command the air to air fighter drones with teaming tactics lack of ally crewed fighters against enemy crewed fighters also will be operating nearby. Drone has no theoretical G limit as human body has but only structural. Thanks for video.
Lol all Australian F35 are fitted with drone controlability set up for our Boeing MQ28 Ghost Bat fully Autonomous AI combat drone.
It is so fully AI there are no joysticks to fly it. AI does it all. lands. takeoff, starts itself.
Only reason a human is needed is to make sure it doesn't do something it shouldn't.
Even been said it's AI tells what needs fixing and maintenance on it.
@@nedkelly9688 sources?
@@ricraftz76 all over the internet from Aviation journalists and a lot from Australian Defense site.
@@nedkelly9688 well i was doing my own reasearch and founded that the australian f35 fleet and i didnt saw nothing about the removal of the joystick,but what i saw was that,just as i knew before,that australia wants to combine manned and unmanned fighter jets in the loyal wingman project that many nations also seek,the concept is one manned fighter jet where the pilot is in charge of 5 unmanned fighter jets,and can give orders to them to scout,fire missiles,or protect him,i think you are exaggerating
Whats intresting is that if they have intrest in the b-21 (australia) when the just bought a billion in HIMARS
B-21 has much better range than HIMARS. Currently if Australia goes to war with China, even with the US's help, Australia would be fighting a defensive war on China's terms. B-21 represents the best system for ensuring Australia has the capability to reach out and hurt China proactively.
For China, it's a pretty comfort position to know that so long as you stay a few hundred kilometers away from Australia, there's not much the Australians could do. But B-21 would massively expand the area where Australia could reach out and strike China, be it land targets or ships.
B-21 will be very expensive and I honestly doubt Australia will acquire it (instead hoping that during a war the US just bases their own bombers in Australia) but there's no doubt that it would offer capabilities far beyond any weapons system Australia currently possesses.
@@Rampant16 makes sense
@@Rampant16 Australia may not acquire the B21 if the US refuses to export them BUT Australia will most certainly not be "hoping" the USAF and it's B21's are not busy elsewhere and that if we're lucky they may be operating in Australia.
Knowing that a flight of several B21's armed with a full load out of LRASM's (20-24 im guessing) each would most likely keep any of Australia's adversaries carrier strike groups north of Indonesia and not a few hundred kilometres away but a few thousand kilometres away (far enough away that the enemy couldn't launch salvo's of cruise and ship launched ballistic missiles).
Australia is an island nation whose air and sea lines of communication and trade could be stopped almost instantly from a powerful nation like China. So the ADF is now trying to be self sufficient ie (GWEO) to build all our missiles (Spike to PrSm), 155mm, 127mm and everything else we fire in Australia. Also why we will be doing all our submarine, aircraft and all the other military hardware maintenance here in Australia too. We are just to vulnerable not too.
And meanwhile I can't land my quadcopter.
Meanwhile in Russia two years ago they showed BORIS : THE MOST ADVANCED ROBOT IN RUSSIA who turned out to be an idiot in a custom and then this year they showed in a Russian weapons expo a freaking Ali Baba express toy dog robot which was supposed to be an advanced killer robot with a RPG strapped to it
Lmao
This reminds me of two movies Terminator and Stealth.
This is how Hunter Killers come to be.
There already possible, any one can put a camera on a drone with facial recognition software and strap a bomb to it. It could pick your target out from a crowd. That can be done today.
As for the large scale productionnof these types of drones I don't see it happening fast as plenty of time is essential to make that happen.yet inevitably it's bound to occur and it's going to be successful based on two out of three parameters including the processing power i
A.I. also does not suffer from pulling Gee's, which makes them potentially better pilots than people.
Indeed and that is something I should have mentioned, the enhanced maneuvering possibilities for drones. Thanks for commenting and thanks for being a subscriber!
@@PilotPhotog Australia Boeing Mq28 Ghost Bat is already proving this in tests. fully AI combat drone.
Read somehwere it has outperformed humans in combat by 5 times already.
STRENGTH OF THE MIND.
The Answer: YES, especially autonomous robotics tanks.
Could be the end of humanity
If the US and the Australians AND the Europeans are all working on individual AI systems, I think the Chinese are in a hell of a lot of trouble. :-)
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Detroit become very smart bird
@8:07 Red Flag: So your proposal is to train your flying AI Death bots by making them the enemy....🤨🤔 yeah I don't see ANY way that could turn out bad.... 😅😂
Good video, and it is definitely the way of the future. I can see the day when we will RARELY need pilots in most military aircraft. There's so many advantages, include cost savings, the ability to massively increase the size of your fleet of aircraft, all without requiring years to train pilots and the fact that losing a drone is far preferable to losing a manned aircraft. I note you mentioned Australia (where I am). I hope we don't bother buying the B21 Raider. I honestly think it will be a huge waste of money and drone technology will make it significantly obsolete in time. You can buy a lot of drones for the price of 1x B21.
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A loitering fleet of big altitude balloons with sidewinders hanging below them would probably do as good a job.
Yes, If you built at scale there is no reason you couldn't push down the cost of a cheap propeller driven drone to that of a car (say 10-30k). Now put half the defense budget for a decade into those and you get 10 million cheap kamikaze drones ...who cares if they are easy to shoot down and you can even hide fancy C&C drones that look the same in the fleet.
I get that they wouldn't be great at everything but you could send an unbeatable swarm around the world I. half a day.
I suspect there is a reason it won't work but I don't see it.
Half the defense budget for slow drones with no range? 😅
The issue would be that if the US shifts a significant amount of resources to developing and constructing very cheap, low-end drones, then their adversaries would shift to the maximize production of systems to counter them. The technology already exists to counter cheap drone swarms like this, it's just a question of having producing enough counter-drone weapons. We build a million suicide drones, China builds a million CIWS to shoot them all down, we're back to square one.
Whereas opponents don't yet have the solution for dealing with new high-end aircraft such as B-21. It's not a question of simply mass manufacturing weapons to defeat B-21s, it's a much more difficult problem of developing those weapons to begin with.
Low-end drones absolutely have a future role, but sacrificing high-end technology to mass produce cheap drones would not be to the US's advantage. If warfare devolves down to who can produce the most suicide drones, China probably wins. It's advanced technologies where the US enjoys the greatest advantages over its enemies, not the production of cheap stuff.
@@Rampant16 That is a good point. But I wonder if it's a workable strategy for nations like India.
@@petergerdes1094 Perhaps, nations already lacking the most advanced technology could benefit from trying to produce less advanced systems in a large of quantities as possible. Still I think that if India went this route, China would simply develop and mass produce their own systems to defeat the low-end drone swarms.
Maybe it is a better strategy than what India currently has but it may not be a decisive advantage against an enemy with superior technology and manufacturing capability. In a war of mass producing cheap stuff, China still trumps India.
How do we fix it?
Maybe not give in to governments hunger for war maybe?
All I can imagine is literally the movie stealth lol
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Juan, The history of the future is being written everyday. Your work writing about the future of aviation is hand in hand with the history of airpower.
Unmanned aerial vehicles at present are at a stage analogous to the evolution from bi-plane to mono-plane one hundred years ago. Today the only limits being materials science and funding.
We've still to discover the materials to make airframes capable of sustained super high G loads and maintainable powerplants able to sustain hypersonic speeds. It's been said...No bucks, no Buck Rogers. The future will bring the bucks.
Today the nexus is...how fast, how much payload delivery, how manuerverability, how much automony do we assign to "drones". With current tech, UAV's can out fly and out think (OODA Loop when programmed well), any human. And with scale, do it all more economically than with a man in cockpit.
For those of that grew up with the romantic notion of the Aerial Knights, "Figher Jocks", in shinny armour performing man-on-man aerial combat. The manned days may be limited. UAV's are here to stay and grow in importance.
Nice work :)
Personally, I think we'll be okay until they activate "Skynet!" Then we're pretty much screwed!
This is some Star Wars stuff
Dude said “we must”
This is why we will die
Another day, another step closer to our inevitable extinction through obsolescence. We are about to re-learn the fact that we are absolutely nothing more than wild animals.
We already know retired aircraft can be turned into drones.
Concept. Using moth balled planes from the bone yard and using them in suicide drone swarm.
Dear Skynet/Legion.
I hereby offer my unconditional surrender.
Dont worry guys I will save US army
Huh?
Air defenses more lethal? Not the Russian S300 and S400 systems as proven beyond all doubt in Ukraine and Syria.
Looks like a shark too lol
Sadly, and not good for the future of Humanity, AI is here and will rule our future generations on behalf of the state.😢
Top Gun 3 incoming!
i hate this idea but good video
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The best drones are made in China 😮
A: Yes
THE MORE, THE BETTER, IF IT MEANS NO LOSS OF AMERICANS LIVES!!!