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In the not-too-distant future, the face of American airpower will dramatically shift away from a relatively few highly capable and crewed platforms and toward an overwhelming avalanche of unmanned systems, ranging from single-use munitions all the way to multi-million dollar multi-role UCAVs (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles).
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As a fan of SG1 any military equipment known as “replicator” makes me very nervous
Dear internet, I accept you as my rogue servitor. Don't forget me when you build your human zoo. I'll be right here.
this step towards force multiplying with (semi-)autonomous AI units is akin to going from a single shot musket to an M4
Hope we get this going fast! China is getting too confident
How about covering what goes on at Dugway Proving Grounds. I hear they fly exotic craft out of there regularly!
7:20 “to win wars” WTF we just got done getting steam rolled by guys in Toyota pick up trucks for two decades. Well he must talking about Vietnam oh wait we lost that. Korea? Nope… another “L”.
It's about f0cking time the pentagon woke the heck up! I thought these guys were supposed to be the best and the brightest????
forget tanks, apv's and aircraft carriers, they are worthless in modern warfare Build drones and missiles the faster and longer range the better. then build 1000 fishing sized vessels and load them all with drones and missiles. put them in bases all over the world.
And China's PLA are thinking the same exact thing. Remember they like to copy just about everything what America do. Hopefully there military goods are not reliable as ours or else we will be in big trouble. China is investing heavily on A.I. and on it's military hardware.
Gee, I'm glad they finally thought of doing this. I've been watching them do this in the movies for 40 years. That's some innovative thinking by our military minds.
Skynet, here we come!😢
Computer Overlords.😂😎😎😎
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I've said for over 15 years now that with costs of fighters skyrocketing, and advances in computer targeting of air defenses becoming lower and easier to deploy, that we, the US, will not develop star trek type shields to protect our most important assets in non-permissive environments, but instead they will use AI controlled drones that will allow our main mission weapons/systems/operators to not only enter the area unmolested but completely eliminate the BG's ability to conduct any type of operational offensive capability against us or our allies or risk being completely destroyed which is even better than Star Trek Shields. They can be refilled at the same time they get fuel.
Even for as good a concept as the Rapid Dragon is, the bottleneck will always be how many JASSM that US can produce per month… In the case of 155mm shell, “…which helped increase American production from 14,000 units per month before the full-scale Russian invasion to about 20,000 per month.” That is just the traditional shell, for expensive missiles, a few hundred in number would be depleted within first few days once the conflict begin. The similar problem would apply on USN, there are only 12 carriers, so how can they deploy swarm of drone without affect the number of aircraft they already carry?
I don't believe that quote was ever mentioned.
War changes all the time. Greek wars used to have set piece battles where the kings would lead from the very front lines, the "losing side" would have only 5-10% casualties and battles would last a few hours.
Imagine showing an ancient greek soldier stalingrad and being like "war never changes, hurr durr"… He would look at you like you had three heads.
It's the only way warfare can go from what I can see, so not getting started with it now would be a very bad decision.
2:10 "relatively few" relative to who? No one else has nearly that many lol
Do you think we'll have drones with guns that dogfight other drones?
Had this been done a few years earlier, do you think we would supply these things to Ukraine and how much would it have changed things?
Could we increase the A-10's payload capacity for this role by removing the gun?
And so are our adversaries!
Would an EM weapon clear the sky? Possible used over an ocean or enemy territory?
China will do the same….Thats the issue.
There is no Artificial Intelligence. Just machine learning
“The Replicator Initiative.” Dude should avoid using names that sound like the cheesy Transformer franchise.
That’s all good until China deploys their sad bots (satellite seek and destroy) even the deep space satellites when they accomplish this it will be over for AI technology. Their concept is block out the stars. So it comes down to Star Wars.
China: Thank you America for the great idea!
Southeast Asian countries: WTF America! Don't give China ideas!
All I’m reminded of is mobile dolls from Gundam wing. And it seems I’m about as accurate as giant anime robots can get (which isn’t super accurate but hey)
The main issue for America is that it needs to bring back its manufacturing onshore
Uavs. Dogs of war shepherded by human pilots against enemy wolves…
AI gonna kill us all
There is another problem with the multi-role aircraft paradigm, other than just the fact that regardless of how many roles an air-frame can fill one air-frame can be in only one place at a time. As anybody who has bothered to study fighter design knows, every fighter is necessarily a compromise between a variety of performance characteristics… price, stealth, range, payload, maneuverability, power-to-weight, max cruising speed, after-burner-speed, etc. A multi role air craft necessarily can't throw any one or several of those out the window for the sake of the others. The result is that it can find itself out matched in a specific contest because it is coming up against specialized enemy aircraft in a contest for which it is merely jury-rigged. Jack of all combat roles but master of none. In WWII Germany's medium bombers and many of its fighter found themselves in this pickle.
I'm sure the enemy will have fake targets as well
The US can't compete with Chinas manufacturing ability, and war is a war of attrition. China's ability to wage war against the US will be amusing to see (we Americans are good at war), but like Amazon, every American buys everything China off the platform (42% of the top sellers are Chinese). Every single business in China is basically under the states control, if not, a front for the Chinese government.
Hy Brother, your doing an awesome job! Keep it up. Your the one i need to go to about all our avionics, i see you know your shit being a fighter pilot. Ride on Lttl Brother. Keep up the good work.
Ancient history we are experimenting with the 10th generation of a system call deep penetration bots and deep penetration nanos— we been able to take the famous Russian AA dome for years with out the use of fighters or missiles no human loss
Do just love merica' inventing new words and confusing millitary terms .
America low cost drones?.. military use like f-35?. really?. Not kidding?..
blessings of the omnissiah
"Replicator initiative" 😂😂😂 these cats watch to much Star Gate SG-1…😂😂😂
The decoys need self destruct so enemies can't get the tech! So like when Obama and Biden gave all our tech to china!
I imagine that US strategists and tacticians will be pouring over the experiences of the Ukraine conflict with respect to drone employment to develop techniques, tactics and procedures on how to use them and more importantly how to defend against them.
What happens when a hostile enemy takes out our GPS capabilities? Hacking or satellite shoot downs etc.
Do we have analog options or am I missing something?
Impressive video. Thanks!
Sometimes I'm reminded how popular SG-1 is in the USAF and I giggle.
I big part of making all this technology work will be the control system. Pilots are going to need easier, faster ways to control their plane and the drone escorts. I wonder if that will be some sort of brain scanning/reading headset. Maybe a future pilot will be able to think about tasking a drone to a target and the AI will take care of the rest.
Endless Sherman Tank Spam
but in the sky
USA #1 flood the skies
If that’s true then that is the correct tactic. Numbers are the one thing that can win anything!