I worked for a hobby store that sold Horizon Hobby merchandise from 2012 to 2017 and it was crazy how much drone tech advanced in that time. It went from practically nothing to almost what we see today in that time frame. The tech in these things nowadays is astonishing.
Yes true. At the same time, seeing military personnel bungee launching or hand launching a foam fixed wing plane (for recon or attack) is something you'd see at most RC fields! Minus the munitions of course but some RC'ers have been known to rig up a servo mechanism to drop water balloons back in the day too. 😁
Yeah War is getting smaller and smaller. The 20th century saw giant military hardware dominate the battlefield-tanks, carriers, bombers. The 21st will likely rely more heavily on small drones and other similar devices in large numbers
@@beyondfossil I first "discovered" modern drones when some neighbor used a DJI to drop firecrackers in my boss's back yard when I was staying over. I heard a bang, looked outside, and called to my boss, "Hey! Check it out! A drone!" and we watched the thing and apparently the operator saw we'd seen it and it sidled off. Pretty funny really. That would be what, 2014?
I remember the switch from 'drones' meaning FPV planes, hand built by hobbyists, to the mass produced quadcopters. Those early drones were so much more fun to tinker around with.
I'm so sorry for this young generation to became soldiers and use their skills , intelligence for fighting enemies. I wish this is only temporary- I wish them all the best, with all the respect! Salute 🇺🇦
Mate has long ruzzia doesn't move out of the ussr era, and communist doesn't disappear from this world from china and nk it will never end, those 3 country are the worst and don't care to simple stop and just dissolve and undo their nukes too. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦.
No, it will be prolonged and keep escalating, the USA is willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, and the far right fanatics that are really in charge of the war are too.
This was a great overview of future wartech and their ramifications, and I especially appreciated the inclusion of the very human parts at the end - like that Ukranian soldier and his partner.
I have seen so many Ukrainians film their own war crimes with drones. They fly in, drop a grenade, fly back, reload it, over and over for many hours to days attacking the same now unarmed now critically wounded men who are absolutely no longer legal targets under the rule of war. Then they'll continue to bomb their corpses for hours too. It's insane that these Ukrainian drone pilots are not being charged for war crimes. The Hague has attempted to locate 0 of them. I know Russians pretty much INVENTED war crimes, look at Katyn. But Ukrainians are FILMING theirs, should make catching the criminals easy yet nothing comes of it.
Watching this made me realize 3 things 1. Wars will absolutely be prolonged doing this, tech is easier and cheaper to replace than military aged young men. 2. Ground tactics of advancing and securing an area will probably take longer, since you don't need troops in the area to clear said area 3. I could see armed conflicts ramping up over the next few decades due to the advancement of tech being able to do the job of soilders on the ground making it easier for countries to garner local support since less actual humans have to die to accomplish the same goal
There’s no actual result in war without people getting killed. Don’t be fooled. It’s not gonna be just robots attacking robots. It’s gonna be robots killing robots and people. The tech is available now, and in Ukraine they still have to fight like in ww1 in trenches with massive casualties. A persons life is cheaper than a lot of these weapon systems and easier to replace
Humans will always die. Any superior power will massacre the other side, it has always happened and it always will. The USA killed 500 000 children in Iraq through sanctions before the invasion became Iraq supposedly had WMDs that didn’t exist, and Madeline Albright claimed it was worth it. And that was before the invasion
Would be horrible. I guess China vs US war will be hiding in basements from drone debris all the time. And for their price if two or 3 big drones can take out a naval carrier then it's over
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war. Herbert Hoover
Also straight up not true. Plenty of 50 year olds in the Ukrainian army, because they had so many volunteers and took everyone fit enough and committed.
But how many times have they shown you another side? 1) interviews of the UNR's German occupation leaders who confessed in 1919 that it was them who chipped away and "created" the Ukraine. 2) declassified documents showing that the United States' CIA had been spending (from 1950s till these days) dozens of billions of American taxpayers' money to send arms, propaganda materials and other resources to the successors and followers of the OUN-UPA Ukrainian terrorists who slaughtered 1+ million innocent Russian, Polish and Jewish women, children and old men -- specifically due to the utter, radical national hatred. 3) CIA confirmed in August 1957 almost all citizens of the UkrSSR don't differentiate themselves from ethnic Russians. 4) Nationalistic Battalions and other Bandera glorificators stated killing Russians and Russian-speaking citizens in then-Ukraine even prior to 2014, and from 2014 onward they started using literally the same methods of torture that Fascists (and OUN-UPA members) were using during the WW2. 5) the US paid for the coup of 2013-2014. 6) Armed forces of the Ukraine have been shelling residential houses and civilian infrastructure in Donbass since 2014. 7) Merkel, Poroshenko, Hollande, Johnson and Zelensky -- all confessed that Minsk agreements were just a hoax, they didn't plan to start implement them, but instead they've been spending the money to deliver lethal weapons onto the territory of the Ukraine. 8) USAID, UNICEF, OSCE, UN and other organizations had been investing enormous amount of money during last decades into the anti-russian (i.e. russophobic) propaganda in ex-Eastern Ukraine, especially among young children. 9) Numerous American think-tanks (the Atlantic, Hudson Institute and many others) have been working on the plans to destroy Russia into multiple parts in war with each other, using multiple methods. and so on and so forth... Did the Economist or any Western-based media show you this reverse side of the medal?
Engagement tactics: 1) fast war, shallow but smart and highly destructive arsenal. 2) Conflict extension, low cost high quantity arsenal to maintain pressure. 3) Mutually assured destruction, nuclear arsenal for the worst case scenario.
you got it, but i think outlets like this are made to make war and weaponry to look as it it kind of our behaviour and the status quo, to stuck in this kind of mankind.
Russia has advanced their capabilities in this area considerably, this is why you don’t see or hear anywhere near the level of successful Ukrainian drone attacks you used to
A war between China and Taiwan would be much more different and we may see swarms of drone being used as both of them has huge capabilities of drone production
Shouldn't you be reading history? When did Taiwan become independent and change the constitution, flag and song of the Republic of China? Your country recognizes diplomatic relations with him? Recognized by the UN Charter and international organizations such as the World Trade Organization? The Borstein Proclamation, please, and what's in the Cairo Declaration? Taiwan is a sacred and inalienable part of China.
@@cfi8192 And then what? Which few small countries in the world have no presence in the world can represent the international? Represent the world? Do you want to see the major countries who recognize Taiwan as a country and establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan? And when will Taiwan become an independent state? Why don't you look at international treaties and consensus such as the Borstein Proclamation and the Cairo Declaration?
This video is amazing. Such a great perspective, coverage of this topic. I think Taiwan NEEDS to invest in advanced modern nuclear energy options so they can be completely independently energy efficient and not reliant on anything or anyone in the case of a worst case scenario.
@@andrewferguson6901so are regular powerplants. China has a big incentive not to irradiate the land it would like to annex, so NPPs would still be a net benefit for Taiwan's energy infrastructure.
@@andrewferguson6901 any power plant is, or infrastructure system of any kind. If you really think about it. The point is the advancements in nuclear energy options could benefit us so much. You can collaborate other energy options alongside the nuclear energy and make a huge impact on the environment in a positive way.
the first combat drones were used in the mid 90's. the difference is that today you can make drones that can be used for only a few hundred or a few thousand dollars.... but in any case, are we really entering a period of increased conflicts? Yes Ukraine is the first conventional war in Europe since the Balkans but between Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, DRC, Sudan, there have been conflicts for all these years. some like the Congo wars extremely gruesome with millions of deaths and yet none of us really know about it
You never know what future brings, but although you are right, that Syria, Sudan or Congo wars were vary brutal, war in Ukraine is not like them. Not in the sense of number of casualties, but in the fact that this is first war in decades which is not one sided like an afganistan (Afgans fought a partizant war) or war between third world armies like wars in Africa. This is a first war between two powerfull armies.
Satellite communication helps here but maybe not in the future. It’s extremely vulnerable and at least China, Russia, France and the US have anti-satellite weapons.
It's much easier to scale up the number of satellites than the number of "satellite-destroying" missiles. You only need one rocket to send a bunch of satellites into space, but you need one missile per satellite to shoot them down. Also, as satellites get smaller, they will be even harder to detect and shoot down.
@@Ruzzky_Bly4t The thing is if they destroy a bunch of satellites that will do a lot of debris that will stay in orbit possibly causing a chain reaction destroying even more satellites.
@@raphaelparadis9134 That's true. Space debris is already becoming a problem and might be a huge obstacle for satellites and rocket launches in the future.
@@Ruzzky_Bly4tyou only need one missile to shoot down that rocket, and they are very big, slow and expensive targets. Say Russia shoots 6 down, how long before the USA can make and launch another?
AI is dangerous for three reasons... 1) It removes the responsibilities of a soldier... Removing any aspect of humanity. 2) AI learns... you cant control everything it will learn... and it will eventually resort to protecting it's existence. 3) AI will misinterpret orders.
What responsibilities of soldiers? Most killing is done by artillery crews and they just aim where they are told to aim. Civilian targets are not out of the ordinary.
Initially in WW1, enemy pilots would wave at each other when they flew by close. Eventually somebody had the idea of pointing a pistol and shooting at enemy aircraft, and the innocence was lost foreever. Expect drone-on-drone brutality to happen with escalating sophistication.
It has been since day one. Starlink charges the U.S. government 4,500 bucks per router, Per month Each. And musk has been damaging in a myriad other ways with twitter, mostly by picking sides over and over again and making that narrative the only one. So already mission accomplished and war profiteering.
Drones are a big determining factor for the outcome of any war forward. The fact that they are relatively cheap and expendable means they can be produced like ammunition and deployed in the 100s of thousands. Hoping this saves human lives in the end, reducing the tally of war.
About 4 months ago I wrote to the German and Ukrainian ministry of defense, in the middle of those tank debates that when drones finally get to take out planes and choppers, tanks, artillerie and infantry will lose their cover. I would speed up the development of drone swarms. IMO they are ideal for a smaller army.
The Ukraine War isn't what made it obvious that armed drones (UCAVs) are the future of warfare. Turkish MALE drones, Iranian kamikaze drones and even Chinese MALE drones were already used extensively before that and gave users an edge across multiple battlefields. Russia and Europe happened to fall behind on the tech, while the US and Israel has also had its own armed drones albeit they're less strategic now due to their high cost and thereby limited numbers and their evaporating strategic exclusivity. Yemen's Ansarullah used Iranian kamikaze drones against Saudi Arabia and the UAE which finally got them begging for a ceasefire that went into effect in April 2022, this despite the two also extensively using MALE drones themselves. Azerbaijan's use of Turkish MALE and Israeli kamikaze drones finally won them the war against Armenian separatists in late 2020. Armed drones have also been used extensively in Libya, Ethiopia, Syria and now the Sahel. The new play is armed drone boats (AUSVs).
You are using the term "drone" in a broad sense. There are drones that look like small aircraft, and then there are modern, commercial drones that are bing used in tactical warfare.
2020 Azerbaijan - Armenia war already proved how effective drones, Aznerbaijan obliterated Armenia with Turkrish and Isreali drones and Ukraine war is just continuation of that.
It is not true that the U.S. and Europe, or even South Korea could not build armed drones like those in China, Iran and Turkey. It is just that the U.S. and its allies seem to restrain on exporting drones despite the majority of the public supporting armed drone export. Taiwan is an example that the U.S. and Israel are willing to export armed drones to.
I remember watching somewhere on TH-cam that the royal marines, the US and some other nato countries were practicing trench warfare and subterranean warfare and it was a training exercise that focused and theorized that war would be like that due to drone warfare
I'd guess it's not that hard to develop an AI-operated machine that will shoot down all objects it sees. That's it for reconnaissance/grenade drones against modern militaries.
Its a 21st century war. Like, the sheer amount of Video documentation by GoPro's, individual youtube, Instagram, Telegram channels it self is never like before. You dont have much videos of wars in the past decade it self until now. Its crazy.
Afghanistan and Iraq also featured warfare as cheap wireless devices and social media grew. In Ukraine, there's someone with rocket artillery and close to similar sigint capability on the other side.
This is ridiculous. The way Russia and Ukraine are forced to fight a war doesn't gel with the US who'd be launching massive vollies of stealth cruise missiles cruise and other air power for weeks before even starting to move land forces. THAAD in Guam, Japan, South Korea. US military has its own communications including Starlink Starshield now.
In the future... Knowing how to tackle wars or any forms of it will be handy in securing our lives and our friends or relatives... It's best to enlist and serve and be a reservist...
War is a form of Madness willingly and intentionally and viciously perpetrated by one group of people on another who only wish to be left alone and to survive. It is the clearest sign of a lack of social emotional psychological, moral and ethical development
I tend to agree, but what’s exciting and terrifying, is that the rate of development of AI is hard to predict. It’s possible an AI could become more intelligent at an exponential rate, and then there’s no telling what the future would hold. But from what I’ve seen, you’re right, it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon.
Then you clearly don't understand the difficulty of military decision making. AI can already give very useful suggestions to officer. Furthermore, in things like satellite image processing it has already surpassed humans because of its efficiency.
It’s very difficult to get the DoD to spend money on new projects with new companies, the vast majority of their defence budget goes to the approved consolidated military industrial companies like Raetheon and Lockheed Martin. It took Palantir about 15 years of perseverance to land a contract, and they’re the premier AI defence company. The DoD is a slow, bureaucratic monolith that is filled with ex military company employees who favour contracts going to their ex companies
why is it then I knew that as soon as the drone was introduced as a toy many many years ago, I knew that warfare would change. People are finally grabbing the idea just now.
Best case scenario, wars end... How will these new players in the military industrial complex carry-on without these juicy contracts? This will not end well for humans.
@@sovietyunyun9096 They use a lot of concepts in 1917 that would be recognisable from 1940 and onwords, but lack just a small bit. Like how do we communicate what a pilot in a recce biplane can see to the artillery on the gound. Maybe haul a telephone cable up to the balloon or an OP, or drop a little capsule with photo film from the plane.
@@Charles-ij1ow Because Russia is such a great functional meritocratic state that a hot dog seller sends his tanks on the capital. That´s just totally normal to have you mercs start an uprising.
years of pacifistic attitude by mainly Germany, only did harm to the NATO. we should start ramping up productions of ammo and vehicles cuz we might need it and the Ukraine definietly needs it
Loved it when the Ukrainian minister cussed out Musk when he estimated the possible outcomes for the war. Really shows what kind of people Ukrainians really are
@@alexcarter8807 Are you beginner or not? Because if you are I would advise buying the smaller drones or the practice drones like this one which I’m gonna link here.
I got one for my brother and he really enjoys it. He’s learning the hoops of the drone and transitioning away from the beginner stage. That’s what I’m what I’m basically at so I was thinking on moving to a bigger drone just to test myself.
You missed the point of the video completely. An AI uprising is a fun Hollywood scenario, but in reality, it will be the people that use AI to cause harm.
I worked for a hobby store that sold Horizon Hobby merchandise from 2012 to 2017 and it was crazy how much drone tech advanced in that time. It went from practically nothing to almost what we see today in that time frame. The tech in these things nowadays is astonishing.
Yes true. At the same time, seeing military personnel bungee launching or hand launching a foam fixed wing plane (for recon or attack) is something you'd see at most RC fields! Minus the munitions of course but some RC'ers have been known to rig up a servo mechanism to drop water balloons back in the day too. 😁
Yeah War is getting smaller and smaller. The 20th century saw giant military hardware dominate the battlefield-tanks, carriers, bombers. The 21st will likely rely more heavily on small drones and other similar devices in large numbers
@@beyondfossil I first "discovered" modern drones when some neighbor used a DJI to drop firecrackers in my boss's back yard when I was staying over. I heard a bang, looked outside, and called to my boss, "Hey! Check it out! A drone!" and we watched the thing and apparently the operator saw we'd seen it and it sidled off. Pretty funny really. That would be what, 2014?
AI is what really shocked me. I’ve been programming for 12 years and the progress made in the last 2 years has been insane.
I remember the switch from 'drones' meaning FPV planes, hand built by hobbyists, to the mass produced quadcopters.
Those early drones were so much more fun to tinker around with.
I'm so sorry for this young generation to became soldiers and use their skills , intelligence for fighting enemies. I wish this is only temporary- I wish them all the best, with all the respect!
Salute 🇺🇦
Mate has long ruzzia doesn't move out of the ussr era, and communist doesn't disappear from this world from china and nk it will never end, those 3 country are the worst and don't care to simple stop and just dissolve and undo their nukes too.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦.
The US don't want peace negotiation. They all are going to die / crippled by war
Why sorry? They should be proud.
@content_enjoyer4458 then resist the ruling class who make you a cannon fodder. It's the same story as ww1, war never changes.
No, it will be prolonged and keep escalating, the USA is willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, and the far right fanatics that are really in charge of the war are too.
This was a great overview of future wartech and their ramifications, and I especially appreciated the inclusion of the very human parts at the end - like that Ukranian soldier and his partner.
I have seen so many Ukrainians film their own war crimes with drones. They fly in, drop a grenade, fly back, reload it, over and over for many hours to days attacking the same now unarmed now critically wounded men who are absolutely no longer legal targets under the rule of war. Then they'll continue to bomb their corpses for hours too. It's insane that these Ukrainian drone pilots are not being charged for war crimes. The Hague has attempted to locate 0 of them. I know Russians pretty much INVENTED war crimes, look at Katyn. But Ukrainians are FILMING theirs, should make catching the criminals easy yet nothing comes of it.
Watching this made me realize 3 things
1. Wars will absolutely be prolonged doing this, tech is easier and cheaper to replace than military aged young men.
2. Ground tactics of advancing and securing an area will probably take longer, since you don't need troops in the area to clear said area
3. I could see armed conflicts ramping up over the next few decades due to the advancement of tech being able to do the job of soilders on the ground making it easier for countries to garner local support since less actual humans have to die to accomplish the same goal
There’s no actual result in war without people getting killed. Don’t be fooled. It’s not gonna be just robots attacking robots. It’s gonna be robots killing robots and people. The tech is available now, and in Ukraine they still have to fight like in ww1 in trenches with massive casualties. A persons life is cheaper than a lot of these weapon systems and easier to replace
Humans will always die. Any superior power will massacre the other side, it has always happened and it always will. The USA killed 500 000 children in Iraq through sanctions before the invasion became Iraq supposedly had WMDs that didn’t exist, and Madeline Albright claimed it was worth it. And that was before the invasion
Would be horrible. I guess China vs US war will be hiding in basements from drone debris all the time. And for their price if two or 3 big drones can take out a naval carrier then it's over
You will absolutely still need troops to clear an area
For #1, in Russia, historically, it has always been the absolute opposite. We even have a horrible horrific saying : Women will give birth to more
We need Radio Shack to make a comeback.
Fax 📠
Circuit City too
Also Heathkit!
Fry's Electronics!
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert Hoover
And those older men were younger men who went to war as well. Of course younger men go to war.
Also straight up not true. Plenty of 50 year olds in the Ukrainian army, because they had so many volunteers and took everyone fit enough and committed.
Thank you for spending the time to create and share this content awareness/perspective
But how many times have they shown you another side?
1) interviews of the UNR's German occupation leaders who confessed in 1919 that it was them who chipped away and "created" the Ukraine.
2) declassified documents showing that the United States' CIA had been spending (from 1950s till these days) dozens of billions of American taxpayers' money to send arms, propaganda materials and other resources to the successors and followers of the OUN-UPA Ukrainian terrorists who slaughtered 1+ million innocent Russian, Polish and Jewish women, children and old men -- specifically due to the utter, radical national hatred.
3) CIA confirmed in August 1957 almost all citizens of the UkrSSR don't differentiate themselves from ethnic Russians.
4) Nationalistic Battalions and other Bandera glorificators stated killing Russians and Russian-speaking citizens in then-Ukraine even prior to 2014, and from 2014 onward they started using literally the same methods of torture that Fascists (and OUN-UPA members) were using during the WW2.
5) the US paid for the coup of 2013-2014.
6) Armed forces of the Ukraine have been shelling residential houses and civilian infrastructure in Donbass since 2014.
7) Merkel, Poroshenko, Hollande, Johnson and Zelensky -- all confessed that Minsk agreements were just a hoax, they didn't plan to start implement them, but instead they've been spending the money to deliver lethal weapons onto the territory of the Ukraine.
8) USAID, UNICEF, OSCE, UN and other organizations had been investing enormous amount of money during last decades into the anti-russian (i.e. russophobic) propaganda in ex-Eastern Ukraine, especially among young children.
9) Numerous American think-tanks (the Atlantic, Hudson Institute and many others) have been working on the plans to destroy Russia into multiple parts in war with each other, using multiple methods.
and so on and so forth...
Did the Economist or any Western-based media show you this reverse side of the medal?
sounds like we have entered the era of the "Droid wars"
Engagement tactics: 1) fast war, shallow but smart and highly destructive arsenal. 2) Conflict extension, low cost high quantity arsenal to maintain pressure. 3) Mutually assured destruction, nuclear arsenal for the worst case scenario.
I just wish the future of war would be... non existent. As in, no wars.
Not gonna happen
you got it, but i think outlets like this are made to make war and weaponry to look as it it kind of our behaviour and the status quo, to stuck in this kind of mankind.
Yes there will never be another death on this planet from wars 100%. Except no.
I honestly think war is beneficial and let's be honest
The world being filled with LGBQT, brain dead clout and etc.
So I want Cold War 2.0
That’s like saying I hope no one disagrees forever. Fruitless effort.
No worse time to be an infantryman.
or a dude in a tank with a built in jack in the box
1:52 Serious Sam logo, who played may know why, nice sense of humor
Great journalism of economist. Great reports. I have read every articles of the economist form 2016 to now.
These guys profit, you die, and the old guys that started the war get to grow old and be remembered forever
Thanks Sashank! Excellent as always.. Imagine we could of had drones for ww1 and ww2.
I think denial of tech communications is going to be a huge part in future conflicts. Basically cyber warfare over communication superiority.
EMP guns?
Russia has advanced their capabilities in this area considerably, this is why you don’t see or hear anywhere near the level of successful Ukrainian drone attacks you used to
A war between China and Taiwan would be much more different and we may see swarms of drone being used as both of them has huge capabilities of drone production
Shouldn't you be reading history? When did Taiwan become independent and change the constitution, flag and song of the Republic of China? Your country recognizes diplomatic relations with him? Recognized by the UN Charter and international organizations such as the World Trade Organization? The Borstein Proclamation, please, and what's in the Cairo Declaration? Taiwan is a sacred and inalienable part of China.
When was Taiwan a country? Is there a single country in the world? World recognition and diplomatic relations with him?
@@雅君墨客-i9zTaiwan does been recognize and have diplomatic relationship from 12 countries actually
@@雅君墨客-i9z did i mention Taiwan its own a coumtry?
@@cfi8192 And then what? Which few small countries in the world have no presence in the world can represent the international? Represent the world? Do you want to see the major countries who recognize Taiwan as a country and establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan? And when will Taiwan become an independent state? Why don't you look at international treaties and consensus such as the Borstein Proclamation and the Cairo Declaration?
This video is amazing. Such a great perspective, coverage of this topic. I think Taiwan NEEDS to invest in advanced modern nuclear energy options so they can be completely independently energy efficient and not reliant on anything or anyone in the case of a worst case scenario.
Nuclear energy is a giant blinking sign that says "target missiles here"
yes so their nuclear can get bombed, that way china won't even need to nuke them, they could simply just bomb their nuclear power plants
@@andrewferguson6901 make them underground
@@andrewferguson6901so are regular powerplants. China has a big incentive not to irradiate the land it would like to annex, so NPPs would still be a net benefit for Taiwan's energy infrastructure.
@@andrewferguson6901 any power plant is, or infrastructure system of any kind. If you really think about it. The point is the advancements in nuclear energy options could benefit us so much. You can collaborate other energy options alongside the nuclear energy and make a huge impact on the environment in a positive way.
the first combat drones were used in the mid 90's. the difference is that today you can make drones that can be used for only a few hundred or a few thousand dollars.... but in any case, are we really entering a period of increased conflicts? Yes Ukraine is the first conventional war in Europe since the Balkans but between Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, DRC, Sudan, there have been conflicts for all these years. some like the Congo wars extremely gruesome with millions of deaths and yet none of us really know about it
You never know what future brings, but although you are right, that Syria, Sudan or Congo wars were vary brutal, war in Ukraine is not like them. Not in the sense of number of casualties, but in the fact that this is first war in decades which is not one sided like an afganistan (Afgans fought a partizant war) or war between third world armies like wars in Africa. This is a first war between two powerfull armies.
Satellite communication helps here but maybe not in the future. It’s extremely vulnerable and at least China, Russia, France and the US have anti-satellite weapons.
It's much easier to scale up the number of satellites than the number of "satellite-destroying" missiles. You only need one rocket to send a bunch of satellites into space, but you need one missile per satellite to shoot them down. Also, as satellites get smaller, they will be even harder to detect and shoot down.
@@Ruzzky_Bly4t The thing is if they destroy a bunch of satellites that will do a lot of debris that will stay in orbit possibly causing a chain reaction destroying even more satellites.
@@raphaelparadis9134 That's true. Space debris is already becoming a problem and might be a huge obstacle for satellites and rocket launches in the future.
@@raphaelparadis9134 Yes, and making near-Earth space unusable for a long time.
@@Ruzzky_Bly4tyou only need one missile to shoot down that rocket, and they are very big, slow and expensive targets. Say Russia shoots 6 down, how long before the USA can make and launch another?
AI is dangerous for three reasons...
1) It removes the responsibilities of a soldier... Removing any aspect of humanity.
2) AI learns... you cant control everything it will learn... and it will eventually resort to protecting it's existence.
3) AI will misinterpret orders.
Fantasy.
Bombers, Cruise missiles, Drones already have dehumanised war to just numbers
@@itheuserfirst3186 what's fantasy?
What responsibilities of soldiers? Most killing is done by artillery crews and they just aim where they are told to aim. Civilian targets are not out of the ordinary.
Initially in WW1, enemy pilots would wave at each other when they flew by close. Eventually somebody had the idea of pointing a pistol and shooting at enemy aircraft, and the innocence was lost foreever. Expect drone-on-drone brutality to happen with escalating sophistication.
There are already videos of Ukrainian and Russian drones ramming into each other in the contested airspace lol
@@Annexation_ what I'm claiming is it will get way more sophisticated than that. Can expect to see dedicated anti-drone platforms and weaponry.
@@aaronseet2738exactly like a amicrowave ray jammer type device
@@whatsursource I remember that, but that was years ago, I'm sure nowadays it's smaller, more precise and more effective
The weaponization of Starlink could be devastating.
the next weapon will be AI
The military has had satellites for decades
Who's to say it hasn't started
Starlink is a product made for the military from the start. Just like the internet and GPS.
It has been since day one. Starlink charges the U.S. government 4,500 bucks per router, Per month Each. And musk has been damaging in a myriad other ways with twitter, mostly by picking sides over and over again and making that narrative the only one. So already mission accomplished and war profiteering.
All the best in the long future! I might subscribe!
Drones are a big determining factor for the outcome of any war forward. The fact that they are relatively cheap and expendable means they can be produced like ammunition and deployed in the 100s of thousands.
Hoping this saves human lives in the end, reducing the tally of war.
It won’t, it will mean more deaths
War never changes.
SkyNet is online😬
About 4 months ago I wrote to the German and Ukrainian ministry of defense, in the middle of those tank debates that when drones finally get to take out planes and choppers, tanks, artillerie and infantry will lose their cover. I would speed up the development of drone swarms. IMO they are ideal for a smaller army.
Aha, a war monger
I hate how AI has just become the new corporate buzzword.
Yeah it is another money laundry thing like crepto
This is what cod and battlefield have been teaching us... "Consumables" = killstreak
Economist reporting something that OSInt viewers konw for over a year now.
The Ukraine War isn't what made it obvious that armed drones (UCAVs) are the future of warfare. Turkish MALE drones, Iranian kamikaze drones and even Chinese MALE drones were already used extensively before that and gave users an edge across multiple battlefields. Russia and Europe happened to fall behind on the tech, while the US and Israel has also had its own armed drones albeit they're less strategic now due to their high cost and thereby limited numbers and their evaporating strategic exclusivity.
Yemen's Ansarullah used Iranian kamikaze drones against Saudi Arabia and the UAE which finally got them begging for a ceasefire that went into effect in April 2022, this despite the two also extensively using MALE drones themselves. Azerbaijan's use of Turkish MALE and Israeli kamikaze drones finally won them the war against Armenian separatists in late 2020. Armed drones have also been used extensively in Libya, Ethiopia, Syria and now the Sahel. The new play is armed drone boats (AUSVs).
Imagine drone submarines😮
You are using the term "drone" in a broad sense. There are drones that look like small aircraft, and then there are modern, commercial drones that are bing used in tactical warfare.
2020 Azerbaijan - Armenia war already proved how effective drones, Aznerbaijan obliterated Armenia with Turkrish and Isreali drones and Ukraine war is just continuation of that.
It is not true that the U.S. and Europe, or even South Korea could not build armed drones like those in China, Iran and Turkey. It is just that the U.S. and its allies seem to restrain on exporting drones despite the majority of the public supporting armed drone export.
Taiwan is an example that the U.S. and Israel are willing to export armed drones to.
Yep, this was one of the key observations from the most recent nagorny karabach conflict.
1:57 They really put "Serious Sam" logo on the drone
Glorie Ukraina.
your jobs are so awesome.
Excellent and honest analysis
I remember watching somewhere on TH-cam that the royal marines, the US and some other nato countries were practicing trench warfare and subterranean warfare and it was a training exercise that focused and theorized that war would be like that due to drone warfare
You guys and gals are the best thank you
I'd guess it's not that hard to develop an AI-operated machine that will shoot down all objects it sees. That's it for reconnaissance/grenade drones against modern militaries.
And a few seconds later that machine is instantly targeted by the AI-operated machine that launched the bait that was shot down...
excellent doc
Are those small drones all DJI? what else makes?
I do not care about how quickly an information gets to me. OBVIOUSLY I care about the quality of it!
I couldn't help noticing the fact that everyone sound super ok with war itself. Nobody really tries to avoid it, only optimize it. I hope I'm wrong.
Which country do you support Russia or Ukraine?
This is only because we don't sent Ukraine the jets that they need.
Naivety👆
@@CharlieHill_26 don't you have your own internet?
Not really as even if they are sent they will be denied by Russian active air defense..
I have a proposal: I will vote for who you ask in Russia and you will vote for who I ask unconditionally of results in Russia
Ukies would need ~200 jets to turn it around. Who will pilot them? Who will provide maintenance?
Its a 21st century war. Like, the sheer amount of Video documentation by GoPro's, individual youtube, Instagram, Telegram channels it self is never like before. You dont have much videos of wars in the past decade it self until now. Its crazy.
Afghanistan and Iraq also featured warfare as cheap wireless devices and social media grew. In Ukraine, there's someone with rocket artillery and close to similar sigint capability on the other side.
This felt like a special backstory trailer for a movie/video game about future warfare
AI is great. People can now destroy each other more efficiently. 😞
This is ridiculous. The way Russia and Ukraine are forced to fight a war doesn't gel with the US who'd be launching massive vollies of stealth cruise missiles cruise and other air power for weeks before even starting to move land forces. THAAD in Guam, Japan, South Korea. US military has its own communications including Starlink Starshield now.
Incredible reporting thank you
Interesting, thanks.
It was either S2 Underground or Covert Cabal, did a video about the details of 5th Generation warfare. would recommend that alongside this.
Very frightening!
“Greetings! Two years … PLUS, the duration!” ~ Pres. Roosevelt, 1941
Couldn't open the survey, but this is a well done video. Transforming the magazine's in depth text into TH-cam. Amazing!
They just need to apply a pink filter...
That lady is already living in the past thinking that AI "remains incredibly brittle." That mindset will not age well.
You've chosen a guy with a Waffen SS division patch for the video preview. Nice work, Economist!
Wait where is it?
@@mehoV2The patch on his arm. You can google "14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)"
@@mehoV2The patch on the guy's arm.
You can google "14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)"
Great!!
At 12:44 there is a picture of empty CPU socket depicting a cpu... Should have just used midjourney because I doubt it would have made such a mistake.
In the future... Knowing how to tackle wars or any forms of it will be handy in securing our lives and our friends or relatives... It's best to enlist and serve and be a reservist...
Thanks Sashank! Excellent as always.
The same limitations as AI in trading markets.
War is a form of Madness willingly and intentionally and viciously perpetrated by one group of people on another who only wish to be left alone and to survive. It is the clearest sign of a lack of social emotional psychological, moral and ethical development
what fairytale are you living in? in Ukraine's case yes, but in a large portion of history's wars, both sides were warring for some greater gain.
@@feverishyak bull. That's just an abject misunderstanding of History without question.
Humans have no real inherent morals or we wouldn't be constantly killing each other.
Someone, anyone can start a war. No one can walk away truely alive. - Anberlin
Was digging this video until the AI card was pulled. As it stands I don't see AI being a factor on the battlefield for the coming decade.
I tend to agree, but what’s exciting and terrifying, is that the rate of development of AI is hard to predict. It’s possible an AI could become more intelligent at an exponential rate, and then there’s no telling what the future would hold. But from what I’ve seen, you’re right, it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon.
Then you clearly don't understand the difficulty of military decision making. AI can already give very useful suggestions to officer. Furthermore, in things like satellite image processing it has already surpassed humans because of its efficiency.
The title of the video is "The future of war". Where on Earth did you get the one decade figure from?
10:15 surprising it's quite tiny of an increase, compared to how fast AI research is moving.
It’s very difficult to get the DoD to spend money on new projects with new companies, the vast majority of their defence budget goes to the approved consolidated military industrial companies like Raetheon and Lockheed Martin. It took Palantir about 15 years of perseverance to land a contract, and they’re the premier AI defence company. The DoD is a slow, bureaucratic monolith that is filled with ex military company employees who favour contracts going to their ex companies
Artillery king of the battlefield that's the main lesson. And also without lot of infantry there is no advancing.
why is it then I knew that as soon as the drone was introduced as a toy many many years ago, I knew that warfare would change. People are finally grabbing the idea just now.
Hope you're having a happy Fourth with your family.
Just think of it: war breaks out and no one turns up.
1:59 the serious sam logo gave me flashbacks
This is all terrible for humanity.
The history of humanity is the history of wars.
Wah. Wah never changes
Best case scenario, wars end... How will these new players in the military industrial complex carry-on without these juicy contracts? This will not end well for humans.
Starlink is awesome!
this video made me remember series the 100
Imagine billions of tiny drones dropping bombs on the battlefield. For sure, this is the future.
Electronic walfare laughing in corner😂😂😂
I am terrified by Jennifer McArdle! Her *eyes* are. . .not right.
Imagine we could of had drones for ww1 and ww2
Imagine if we had lasers in the civil war aaah derrrr
The V1 was effectively a 'kamikaze' drone - and with a pulse jet engine...
There kinda was in ww2
they used manned balloons/ biplanes for reconnaissance and spotting already in ww1 for similar effect
@@sovietyunyun9096 They use a lot of concepts in 1917 that would be recognisable from 1940 and onwords, but lack just a small bit. Like how do we communicate what a pilot in a recce biplane can see to the artillery on the gound. Maybe haul a telephone cable up to the balloon or an OP, or drop a little capsule with photo film from the plane.
These small and cheap drones makes it easier for less powerful opponents to fight against much more powerful enemies.
DJI Mavic Drones are the Best Drones, Made In China! Home of The Technology Shenzhen!
Go Ukraine🇺🇦, go brave nation! Greetings from USA, we're changing the world here 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ignore the hate, proud of my Ukrainian brothers and sisters
Thank you,
Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Ukraine was a corrupt failed state before the war, now all of a sudden they are hero's? It would be better if they were part of Russia.
@@Charles-ij1ow Because Russia is such a great functional meritocratic state that a hot dog seller sends his tanks on the capital. That´s just totally normal to have you mercs start an uprising.
@@dmitriymirian7320 Slava Ukraini🫡
Whoever the woman in white is, she is most definitely a cyborg. Look at those eyes.
Slava Ukraini!
We will never surrender!
Interesting how this piece of propaganda doesn't mention DJI but focus on Starlink.
years of pacifistic attitude by mainly Germany, only did harm to the NATO. we should start ramping up productions of ammo and vehicles cuz we might need it and the Ukraine definietly needs it
Loved it when the Ukrainian minister cussed out Musk when he estimated the possible outcomes for the war. Really shows what kind of people Ukrainians really are
Entitled
our govts are supporting fascists - i see dignified behaviour from some russians though
the future of war will be dispute on online games. no bloodshed needed
“ you need a lot of drones” I broke 2 at home.
Yeah I'd love to get into the drone hobby but that stuff breaks all the time, too spendy for me.
@@alexcarter8807 exactly it’s just very fun to do man.
@@alexcarter8807 Are you beginner or not? Because if you are I would advise buying the smaller drones or the practice drones like this one which I’m gonna link here.
I got one for my brother and he really enjoys it. He’s learning the hoops of the drone and transitioning away from the beginner stage. That’s what I’m what I’m basically at so I was thinking on moving to a bigger drone just to test myself.
We got to unarm people that want to fight wars
This basically proves the fact that AI will turn on us😂
You missed the point of the video completely. An AI uprising is a fun Hollywood scenario, but in reality, it will be the people that use AI to cause harm.
IF LIFE ON THIS PLANET IS TO KEEP ON LIVING , WAR HAS NO FUTURE!
Such a melodramatic piece of reporting complete with sound effects and all the pizzazz, only to end up saying nothing.
Haha
After 70 years, the PLA could only move across the Median Line in the Taiwan Strait.
- How can China beat Taiwan 🇹🇼 ?
Ukraine 💛💙
I like how they translated 'katsaps' as 'cannon fodder'
The future is smaller & more dangerous
I loved the part where the pretty blonde skynet rep told us that we don't have to worry about the extermination algorythms :)
Why not just stop fighting, and spend military budgets on food and shelter for those who really need it?