So many questions I can answer lol. I worked on these as a technical engineer. Firstly, they aren’t flown with an Xbox controller (but they can be taxied around with a controller very similar to one). There are no drones that make autonomous weapon use decisions. That is purely science fiction. And military commanders are unanimously extremely insistent that there is always a human making that decision. There are Automatic Takeoff and Landing Systems. (ATLS) that allow the aircraft to takeoff and land without direct control. These systems are not perfect though. they have to be monitored in case they make bad decisions or decide they cannot handle it on their own.
@@Logovanni No need to. Reality doesn't depend on what YOU know or believe d1pshit. I get the data from a USAF Col. who commands. Now, run along and let the adults talk.
They didn't even touch on when you network the drones to all work together. You get a handful of drones in the air and you have access to a nice 360 view of the terrain. Meaning any drone equiped with weapons could have a real time visual on targets not in their line of sight. Allowing them to act as soon as there is an opportunity. If you can add an AI to manage the drones and remove the human element from that equation. The potential reaction speed becomes extremely scary.
Authoritarian countries are always going to bleed heavily in wars. Too top down, too many yes men, not enough internal competition to innovate, to criticize mistakes, etc. Russia in Ukraine is just the latest example of that.
Russia and China are all about living in the past their corruption has made their military degrade over 2 decades and Putin is the prime example of not providing his military with any funding to help them stay ahead and stay prepared he treats his war with Ukraine like it's WW2 he doesn't care to preserve human life their all just expendables to him
And why countries like China and Russia will always be playing catch up with the United States,they copy our latest equipment while we're designing it's replacement
@@manolo5042 It's not anywhere near 50 years. I know multiple engineers who have worked on projects like the B-2 Spirit in the early 80s. There is usually a 10 to 15 year lag between development and when the general public finds out about it. That gap is increasingly becoming smaller because it is harder to hide things today. The X-47B drone shown in this video was first developed around 2006 (concept designs for its predecessor were submitted in 2000 or 2001). Test flights of it could be seen around Edwards AFB around 10 years ago.
Ships and planes being released today have definitely been in planning and development for up to 20 years or more. This is why china is dangerous. They don't spend time in these phases. They just steal the finished products
@@krayzy932exactly. These people overestimate the power the government has over secrecy on projects like these. There’s a reason they give so many specs on new aircraft/weapons. It’s because you can’t hide it for very long, so instead of hiding it for surprising the enemy, the new tactic is to make the enemy shit themselves and deter them from fighting you. Totally agree with you
I remember in my business ethics class we had a thought experiment about the difference between stabbing someone to death, shooting someone close range, sniping them from a distance, using a drone, or just ordering the death of someone. Net result is the same, so what's the difference? IMO the further you detach yourself from the cause and effect of your actions, the more likely you are to be okay with doing horrible things. At least back in the day, leaders of empires were actually in battle with their fellow soldiers.
There're some fighter programs that are looking at slaving drones to a host fighter jet to act as support. The SANDBOXX channel has a bunch of great videos on military tech, especially drones and the F-35. You guys should check them out.
Fellow SANDBOXX viewer I see lol. The 6th gen fighter is supposed to have capabilites like this. Host jet with support drone platform and with a shared AI network to link and share data.
This further adds to my theory that people keep seeing these/prototypes and thinking of them of UFOs. Yes, even military pilots who see stuff on radar or whatever. Military has what they call compartmentalization.
When Dave was talking about the helicopter going down he was referring to the incident that Marcus Luttrell survived, later made into a movie called Lone Survivor starring Mark Wahlberg
Yep, operations Redwing. I remember when the book came out I rent it from the local library like 4 times and they eventually just told me to take the damn book. Lol
I worked for a multi-billion dollar plant food and plant medicine company in the central valley. One day they brought in a crew that shot videos of the facility using drones for the company's website. About a half hour after that crew was finished filming and left I notice something about 15 feet up above where I was filling 250 gallon totes with some sort of plant food ir medicine. It was a drone about 15 inches long but I could only make out half of it because it was in like a Predator stealth mode. It wasn't like the movies it was like a plastic bottle without the shine. When I noticed it it moved quickly a few feet over and I could make out the other half of craft then it rapidly moved again and I lost it. I tried telling my coworkers but no one believed me but I'm convinced that drone crew was committing corporate espionage. That patents that company has are worth millions and millions here in the agricultural capital of the world.
Drone warfare appears to me to be the future of modern warfare. They're just too damn effective in combat situations to not be. You can look no further than what's going on in Ukraine to see for yourselves the true effectiveness of these weapons, with the pinnacle of their success being attributed to the sinking of Russia's flagship warship, the Moskva. What's even better is the fact that the controllers of the drones aren't even putting themselves in harm's way to carry out these missions. All you really have to be is a pro gamer at this sort of thing and you'll be qualified to control one of these.
A few of these shown in the video were built 5 minutes down the road from my house on Long Island. They do some crazy shit there. It's like a mini Area 51 lol.
America really saw Starcraft Carriers and said " Yes, we want that in our arsenal". Only a matter of time before we have drone carriers spitting out a swarm of drones.
Fella who comes in the pub and was Chief of MOD defence procurement for many years recently flew in a fighter jet off a US ship. He said the Jet doesn't kick in until they are off the ship and are only a 100 feet from the sea. He said they drop around 30 feet before the jet kicks in and it was when you're dropping in an aircraft before the Jet kicks in is extremely scary. Obviously. Railway has some great characters. You would never know what he did for a living as he sits with a pint of Guinness but he is a pure gentleman and possibly our only knighted customer.
The first focus of the Navy for the carrier launched drones is for refueling aircraft aloft, not for conducting offensive combat missions. Those will probably come after they have more experience with them. Back in June of this year, Boeing released a photo of an MQ-25 T1 drone while it was transferring fuel to an F/A-18 Super Hornet. That was on June 4, 2022. Interesting that they didn't mention the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton. That's a serious maritime ISR platform for the Navy. High altitude, long endurance.
@@austinverlinden2236 he is bullshitting. They have some autonomous features, but they are never fully autonomous. My company helped develop the system for controlling them on the flight deck.
Funny thing is the drone pilots wear flight suits, get paid for flying hours, get war ribbons for flight combat. My buddy in the Air Force is a sensor operator for the predator drone.
the disconnection will make the operator lose their sixth sense connection with their craft and make it harder to track enemy crafts. i would still put my money on the human pilot unless it is swarm tactics, and the human is out numbered and the drone's connected view from many angles make short work of the outnumbered human pilots
Before my last deployment to Iraq even though I'm a Infantry grunt, the Infantry tries to be self-sufficient. Meaning the Infantry tries to accomplish every mission without assistance from other MOS's or branches as much as possible. So I got selected to go to UAV pilot school to fly the RQ-11 Raven-B, which is a much smaller "drone" but the whole system still costs $250,000. Also since I had to get a Secret security clearance I was also selected to be CoIST(Company Intelligence Support Team) and also get sent off to the CoIST training as well. There's a point to this... Since I was the Intel guy for my unit I had access to the intelligence gathered from the real intel guys. Anyway something strange was happening. Somehow it seemed like the insurgents knew exactly our and allied troop movements and knew where the MQ-9 Reaper drones were heading to. Come to find out Somehow the insurgents were able to hack and intercept the video feed from the MQ-9 Reaper drones. They were using our own equipment/weapon against us and without anyone knowing. Luckily they weren't able to take control of them or fire it's missiles, only passively intercept video feeds. The Airforce quickly fixed the issue. Don't ever underestimate your enemy. We seem to have a tendency to learn that the hard way. The only people that think Iraqis are stupid dirt farmers are the ones that never deployed to OIF, never left the wire/FOB or actually fought against them or they're simply total idiots themselves. I've never seen a people do so much with so little. If you were stuck on a deserted island you'd want to have an Iraqi with you, somehow he/she would figure out a way off or rescue.
The entire purpose of the x47b drone test is to determine the feasibility of carrier launch for drone use as airborne refueling platforms, and airborne command and control, in a much smaller package
Ok, he covered it pretty well, I paused as soon as he asked, lol…I got asked that a lot, on our birds and other vids of the time. By people who limited knowledge in both those things. It can look funny as hell, as they barely move a few inches forward, then appear to be changing direction, going backwards, then forwards, holding even, so the blades don’t appear to move for a second or so, then back to barely moving forwards or backwards.
The X-47 project cost $813 million total (almost a billion) before being scrapped. They are not a billion per drone. US Navy is using MQ-4C Triton and RQ-4A which cost around $180 million each in 2019. And for you Brits....the MQ-4C has a Rolls Royce engine as does King Charles.
Ok, the slow (looking) rotor blades on helos, os because of frame rate when recording. The less blades they have, 4-2, like the ones I worked on in the USMC, the last of the might two bladed Huey’s and Cobra’s, had much larger/massive rotor blades, as only two, instead of 4, 4 plus, depending on country and make, etc. so they went slower…by a bit, and depending on throttle/power pulled, frame rates can sync up with rotor RPM, and can even make the blades look like they aren’t moving at times, on video…as they frame rate matches the position they are in, very closely, so they barely move from original position, sometimes even look like they are spinning the wrong way, on video. That’s why that happens.
Tech will never replace boots on the ground on the battlefield because ground needs to be taken and then held in the face of enemy soldiers and civilian insurgents.
While the movie Enemy at the Gates depicts only half of soviet soldiers being issued a rifle and the other half being told to just pick up rifles from dead soldiers, that was made up for the movie to add a greater sense of desperation on the part of the soviet defenders. Not just did that not happen during the Battle of Stalingrad, that didn't happen on any eastern front battlefield, because that was one of the truly brutal lessons the imperial russian army had learned during WWI. During The Great War, that absolutely happened. On multiple occasions, the first wave of russian soldiers sent over the top to assault german or austro-hungarian trenches would have a rifle, but for the second wave only half would have rifles. For the entirety of imperial russia's participation in the war, they relied heavily on imports of foreign arms. After the rise of stalin and the soviet union, a major emphasis would be put on industrialization, especially in terms of rifles. So, by the time WWII rolled around they had plenty of rifles. What they didn't have enough of were the latest generation of tanks, planes, radios, and experienced officers. The only case of russian forces being engaged and not having enough guns was a labor battalion that was made up of "reservists"(regular civilians hastily mobilized weeks prior to the beginning of the battle) who had been deployed to construct trenches and other defensive earth works, that came under fire from a german unit that was screening the advance of the main german assault force. Other than that instance, a shortage of rifles wasn't one of the problems the red army had to deal with.
You guys should watch a movie called STEALTH it's about Unmanned Jet that is controlled by A.I and an electrical storm fries it's circuits and it goes rouge, and begins taking on its own missions....It's a pretty movie.
And nah, in the near to far future were never fully remove the human element, there’s just gonna be less of them in one area some of the publicly released stuff was to have a pilot/his aircraft linked and roughly controlling up to multiple drones, like controlling the broad formation, of they hold fire/can attack or patrol, etc…then the drone decides the best course of action it needs to take, to do the broader outline of what it’s told to do. Now I don’t know the mix, of told what to do/it figures out stuff on its own, but I imagine it’ll be a decent mix…plus you still need manned assets that can’t be hacked and taken over so easily, stuff like that. And no matter how good drones are, they are never gonna replace the amazing results of well trained, experienced people, in coming up with…creative solutions. Nor will they be as vicious as we can be, when needed, sure the drones will be cold, uncaring, but that’s far from the same, from the warrior spirit and mind set of someone who needs to do a mission no matter what. In an intelligent way. That hopefully preserves there men/assets and themselves, but will use any and all of them, including them selves to accomplish said mission. Like o said. We can be /are vicious, even blood thirsty, at least to an outside perspective that isn’t there at the same moment. Computer logic is indifferent and cold, they don’t the same drove to fight, they aren’t gonna be doing it for their buddies and brothers and sisters to the left and right of em. Now sure, they got a valid place and will definitely supplement, do important work, help save lives…well ours and our Allie’s anyways. But always gonna need people up in jets, and helos still for medivac and close air support…or coming with new ways. On the spot for doing something in combat. Or pulling a trigger. The terrifying part, is when we’ll have to fight someone who has as good of stuff as we do, that’s actually functional and fielded in numbers to matter, which is gonna be a awhile still, unless things go horribly wrong, then it be so much they caught up, it’ll be we slipped back a few notches at least. Drones are just gonna be one more thing you gotta worry about..to an extent, depending on where you are, who you are, who you’re fighting. Those silly little civilian ones they are using over there now, wouldn’t be able to work from our old jamming tech, from well over a decade before I went to Iraq twice and camp bastion once, if we didn’t want them too, our jamming pods would ground them all. So that’s tech from over 3 decades ago from us (US) and most of our bigger Nato Allie’s, that would shut all that crap down over Ukraine including their phones and Wi-Fi, drove through radios, any and all radio/wireless communications but more advanced better stuff. Than either of them have.now fighting our level tech…yeah, that would suck…haha.
Yeah you're right, blokes, that Drones, or even Aircraft for that matter, can't win wars. Why? Aircraft can't Occupy and Hold territory. In Desert Storm (Gulf War I) the Allies spent 4 weeks in an aerial campaign to soften up the Iraqi military and its C&C. But it still had to go in on the ground with troops to take and hold the ground, to some troops disappointment in fact, as they wanted some action, because they trained so hard for it for so long. A good movie to watch on that is Jarhead with Jamie Lee Fox and Josh Hartnet. Details what it was like for the Army to just camp out in the Saudi Arabian desert for months, waiting for action, only to be shown up by the Air Assault, and only being needed for mopping up action that only took 4 days. That quick victory is why we were surprised by the prolonged campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan 10 and 12 years later.
And talking about budgets…well in 2020…we spent what…860-870 billion dollars? Russia spent 60 something billion as far as we could tell…it shows. China spent like 150 billion something in 2020…so yeah…so far on the last bit, like 8-9 months…we’ve given Ukraine a 1/3 of what Russia spent in the whole year of 2020, on their entire defense budget…ahaha. When you put it into that frame of reference…it’s insane how much we do/can spend…and all this released stuff is just about what’s to come out/is fairly well known in general. Us and you Brit’s worked on hypersonics throughout the 60-90’s had them figured out. Multiple systems from infantry based, like dragon launchers, to early dragon on vehicles, and bigger/better versions on vehicles…and fighters/ground attacks. We, US finally gave up on them in programs on the early 90’s…not cause they didn’t work, but because they were too expensive for even us, they did the same thing a good missile with a cheap chemical warhead did, especially highly refined. Cheap, relatively speaking, reliable, effective missiles and warheads, and stealth tech, drones. We and the Brit’s had great hypersonic, kinetic kill missiles back into the 70’s…no explosives on board, but the missile motor, but they were hideously expensive, for what you got. Our chemical warheads can and do intercept in coming hypersonics, lol. So they are mostly a moot point, site they can cause some casualties here and there…but we can mostly stop them, in a war, enough to win, as they waste resources on dumb shit like that. We had manned, piloted rocket/plane things in the 60’s and 70’s that could do Mach 9…with a human flying them, haha…yeah we figured all that out, long, long ago, don’t you worry no body 😏😁
I also think MEDEVAC will greatly benefit from unmanned helicopters. US spending roughly $760,000,000,000 a year on the military. I think China is second with $250,000,000,000 and India is third.
I don't think unmanned tech will take over completely, but I think human soldiers will be far smaller in number as a percentage of any given military as we go on. As for what to shoot if you don't have humans to shoot at, ultimately you're controlling territory and resources. If you cut the enemy from those things, you get closer and closer to ultimate victory.
It's hard to tell at this point. We don't really know how capable drones and robots will become and what the limitations are, if they'll attain human-level decision making in general any time soon and what their concept of morals/adherence to rules are, what the costs fort these systems will look like compared to humans across varying roles, etc. Drones/bots of varying natures will replace us in a lot of roles and supplement us in others, but I think it's going to be a while before we really have a good idea of what the landscape looks like.
@@darrinlindsey China has many more things it claims it has done or will do than actual accomplishments. Military growth is clearly their priority and concerning, but they seem to half-ass everything at the same time.
And what he’s saying at like 15:00 dead on, Russia has a few, super early prototypes that don’t even work mostly roght, of they work at all, and that was before all this…they’re straight back to 70’s and 80’s, tech of the (Soviets) at the time…with a few exemptions, trickling in, china, would be closer in overal R&D but they’ve always been poor copies that barely work, and if they do, are far less capable, just look at their missiles, sore they are pushing hard to catch up, but that takes a stupid amount of money, man hours and failed projects, partial successes and the willpower and funding to see it through. And the need too push hard and stay ahead. Currently we are highest in all those factors. And I don’t care how “cheap” monetarily things are in china, 150 something billion USD isn’t gonna beat over 800 billion in R&D, fielding and maintaining, training and housing troops/equipment, not in a modern war, we’d eat them alive, as they can’t cross the pacific in anyway that matters, we can. That can’t even match us in our old Nimitz Class super carriers, let alone the new ones coming online now…they can’t match in numbers, or capability, let alone aircraft and missiles. Sure they could mess up/sink one CVBGN…one out of seven, but guess what, they’d have no navy after that, what are they goons do? Die as a functional government as we choke them off from the rest of the world, by force, and that’s with no Nato help, haha. With Nato help, it’d happen at least twice as fast. We are the only nation on earth on earth than fight a multi fronted war, and support it, on opposite sides of the globe, literally no one else has the numbers or logistics to be able to do that. And the top of the line equipment, fielded to their entire military…across the planet. Sore there will be a time, sometime, when sadly that isn’t the case…but it’s definitely not now, or the near future.our Air Force with a little Navy and USMC help could grind all of Europe under their boot, while the Navy and USMC, with a tiny amount of Air Force dod the same in the pacific…then anyone who wanted to mess with us. Would have to deal the biggest, meanest blue water fleet to ever exist…then our Army/USMC and NavSpec guys on the ground…and finally of any made here…with over 300 million, probably actually about 400-450 million in reality people who are heavily armed, lots of them vets, with a ton of training and recent experiences…especially with IED training, haha. So yeah have fun. Do you know how many fertilizer plants we have. Just for making citizen use fertilizer? Let alone bigger ones for industrial purposes? I’ll just leave it at that. Lol. Yeah, that’s an unconquerable nightmare for anyone. Our population owns more small arms, legally, and tracked, then small arms fielded by the entire US military, and with the exception of light/medium machines, grenade launchers on rifles…many of our personal firearms are way better tuned up, to work just right, smoother, less failures to function than military stuff, with a far higher mechanical accuracy and precision potential built in, often times for equal or less money. Plus you know, two big ass oceans on the way…and the coastal ranges right behind them…then real mountains right behind the coastal mountains, haha. As long as we have any sort of federal level cohesion/extremely heavy state level, no one can invade us, and win. It’d be a physic victory for the literal world to beat us. For many reasons.
I'm sure they'll keep using some drones to help out the ground forces, but as long as it's cheaper to send out a poor kid with a gun than a multimillion dollar drone, they'll keep sending out soldiers. It would take thousands of drones to replace an army, and even the Boston Dynamics robots can't handle stairs and building interiors as well as humans can.
Just so you know. The country with the second largest military budget is China, and in a year they spend less than the US spends just on Military Bases Outside the US
See, there’s drones…and then there’s drones…we don’t so much make drones…as we make full up jets (now) stealth, that work without without a pilot on board, haha. Can be refueled or do refueling in air. Network with each other and all other upgraded, 4th gen and later fighter tech…can also be controlled by the pilot/his aircraft….strike and surveillance as always, but now they and I’m guessing for awhile, our bigger ones can/did do both, so they’re the same, just better, faster, harder to find and kill, longer ranged, etc.
As absolutely amazing as that drone is, can you imagine the terror, destruction, and chaos that a handful of cheap drones like they put together in Ukraine could cause in large urban areas?
For one the USA doesn’t target civilians in wars. We target infrastructure and military personnel. Wars are never pretty, there will be casualties unfortunately. The point is to minimize the casualties as much as possible. It’s because of this technology is the reason why the wars like in the Middle East never turned out to look like Ukraine were entire cities turned to rubble. So you tell me which war had more remorse? Certainly not what’s going on in Ukraine. The US are no saints but we certainly had fewer civilian casualties than the Ukraine and it hasn’t been a full year there, while we were there for 2 decades. Think about it.
@@Chitownbullz21 Ok, let me burst your bubble, In Yemen, drone attack casualties were 90 % civilians...I can go even further on it. Stop kidding yourself.
@@goodmorning192 No bubble here. But about Yemen. What benefit does US have attacking civilians targets? I’ll tell you, none. It was obviously poor reconnaissance that led to tragic civilian deaths. Hard to fight a clean war when your enemy cowardly hides behind civilians and in civilian clothes. Plus the amount of steps it takes it requires to even authorize these strikes. I’m well aware, like I said the US are no saints, along with civilians dying from strikes during the evacuation of Afghanistan trust me I know. My point was compared to other wars, casualties are far less in number compared to other wars. Like I said, war is never pretty.
@@Chitownbullz21 Yeah, I see BS there. Like I said I can go on a rampage about their poor "reconnaissance"....Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Libya...there are more and more and more.
I live near a US Base where these drone pilots are trained. They all look like kids, and probably have a XBox control in their pockets. I was told those are the kind of people they are looking for to pilot the drone because of their video game experience
Where is the underwater drones the Scuba Scout or the Sub Mariner,ok I just made those up but I'm sure they will design a underwater attack drone sooner or later....
No $ for Universal health care, no $ for free lunches for our school Kids, no paid maternity leave but blank checks for weapons of mass destruction! America!!!
#OfficeBlokeDave Dave, there are NO drones that can decide to engage a target & shoot without human intervention. This level of autonomous AI absolutely does NOT exist.
There are probably more US assets in friendly countries than the countries have themselves, the US paying to defend them so they don't have to. We got your backs and you're welcome. :)
Awesome idea for having drones as an extraction unit. The only problem with that theory is they would have to figure out weight distribution because the helicopter is not manned it now has to carry the weight of people. So the aircraft has to be able to carry the weight of itself and the people they are extracting from the zone. If that makes sense.
but the larger helicopter drone it said it can carry weapon weight as well as cargo weight. so people could be cargo just the same right. all they would have to do is know the weight of each operator which i assume they get weighed before a mission. plus the gear they have. but even then. your still prone to rpg rocket fire that will still kill everyone anyway.
Drones will increase conflict. As they become cheaper and more available every nation will increasingly commit to them and since they don't put your own military at risk there will be less downside to using force against your neighbors. When a leader doesn't have to worry about body bags coming home they will be more likely to 'send in the (non)troops'.
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Every nation? You mean the ones with the means ie money.
These vids are from years ago. The way this craft works is by swarm networking intelligence. These are air to ground and air to air combat vehicles. They are also stealth. A group of these will go to attack a target and each craft knows and "sees" what the others do. If attacked the correct craft or crafts (based on position vs the enemy) will take out the threat instantly (no human lag time or slow voice comm to direct actions) and continue to the target. It is like a hive mind. Human flown aircraft have no chance. Also the high G maneuvers they can perform cannot be done by aircraft with a human inside.
The NYPD is adding weapon carrying drones and robodogs and eventually robocops. If they shoot us dead (and they will) No one to blame but the robots. Pray for us🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
So many questions I can answer lol. I worked on these as a technical engineer. Firstly, they aren’t flown with an Xbox controller (but they can be taxied around with a controller very similar to one).
There are no drones that make autonomous weapon use decisions. That is purely science fiction. And military commanders are unanimously extremely insistent that there is always a human making that decision.
There are Automatic Takeoff and Landing Systems. (ATLS) that allow the aircraft to takeoff and land without direct control. These systems are not perfect though. they have to be monitored in case they make bad decisions or decide they cannot handle it on their own.
wrong. Drones can make autonomous decisions if they are released to do so
@@protonneutron9046 he said there are NOOO drones that do it not that they can’t MAKE one to do it
@@nathanaelcudjoe4165 And he is wrong. There ARE drones CURRENTLY that can attack autonomously.
@@protonneutron9046 unless you’re prepared to show me some documentation proving that, my experience working with military drones tells me otherwise.
@@Logovanni No need to. Reality doesn't depend on what YOU know or believe d1pshit. I get the data from a USAF Col. who commands. Now, run along and let the adults talk.
They didn't even touch on when you network the drones to all work together. You get a handful of drones in the air and you have access to a nice 360 view of the terrain. Meaning any drone equiped with weapons could have a real time visual on targets not in their line of sight. Allowing them to act as soon as there is an opportunity. If you can add an AI to manage the drones and remove the human element from that equation. The potential reaction speed becomes extremely scary.
Authoritarian countries are always going to bleed heavily in wars. Too top down, too many yes men, not enough internal competition to innovate, to criticize mistakes, etc. Russia in Ukraine is just the latest example of that.
That perfectly describes the US.
@@fermisparadox01 - nice try, joker.
Russia and China are all about living in the past their corruption has made their military degrade over 2 decades and Putin is the prime example of not providing his military with any funding to help them stay ahead and stay prepared he treats his war with Ukraine like it's WW2 he doesn't care to preserve human life their all just expendables to him
@@fermisparadox01 LOL whatever helps yu sleep at night buddy
@@fermisparadox01 Nice try there, Putin!(lol)
Sometimes I wonder what they are not showing us, this aircraft is
Probably ten to 20 years behind their current technology.
And why countries like China and Russia will always be playing catch up with the United States,they copy our latest equipment while we're designing it's replacement
@@JustMe-gn6yf exactly!!
@@manolo5042 It's not anywhere near 50 years. I know multiple engineers who have worked on projects like the B-2 Spirit in the early 80s. There is usually a 10 to 15 year lag between development and when the general public finds out about it. That gap is increasingly becoming smaller because it is harder to hide things today.
The X-47B drone shown in this video was first developed around 2006 (concept designs for its predecessor were submitted in 2000 or 2001). Test flights of it could be seen around Edwards AFB around 10 years ago.
Ships and planes being released today have definitely been in planning and development for up to 20 years or more. This is why china is dangerous. They don't spend time in these phases. They just steal the finished products
@@krayzy932exactly. These people overestimate the power the government has over secrecy on projects like these.
There’s a reason they give so many specs on new aircraft/weapons. It’s because you can’t hide it for very long, so instead of hiding it for surprising the enemy, the new tactic is to make the enemy shit themselves and deter them from fighting you.
Totally agree with you
I remember in my business ethics class we had a thought experiment about the difference between stabbing someone to death, shooting someone close range, sniping them from a distance, using a drone, or just ordering the death of someone.
Net result is the same, so what's the difference? IMO the further you detach yourself from the cause and effect of your actions, the more likely you are to be okay with doing horrible things. At least back in the day, leaders of empires were actually in battle with their fellow soldiers.
There're some fighter programs that are looking at slaving drones to a host fighter jet to act as support. The SANDBOXX channel has a bunch of great videos on military tech, especially drones and the F-35. You guys should check them out.
yes, it for these types of drones.
Fellow SANDBOXX viewer I see lol. The 6th gen fighter is supposed to have capabilites like this. Host jet with support drone platform and with a shared AI network to link and share data.
@@kev792 any future US 6th Gen fighter is unmanned. Already announced by he DoD about a year ago.
@@protonneutron9046 Really? News to me, nice
@@kev792 Now bombers are different. The B-21 Raider stealth bomber was unveiled last night at Edwards AFB. Manned
This further adds to my theory that people keep seeing these/prototypes and thinking of them of UFOs. Yes, even military pilots who see stuff on radar or whatever. Military has what they call compartmentalization.
Maybe, probably not only because the Ufo's reportedly seen were doing movements and speeds that planes or drones can't do.
After all, Area 51 is actually a testing site for experimental military aircraft, often designed to fly in unusual ways.
@@Subjectivity13 yes, though these sights happen all over the world. Especially in ukraine recently
And drones can potentially do maneuvers that a manned aircraft can't do, because without a human pilot, g-force is less of a concern.
@@austinverlinden2236 Not only that they are able to move with no visible propulsion in air or sea.
The U.S. military is interested in keeping modern adversaries limited to self defense within their own borders, they already won that battle globally.
When Dave was talking about the helicopter going down he was referring to the incident that Marcus Luttrell survived, later made into a movie called Lone Survivor starring Mark Wahlberg
Yep, operations Redwing. I remember when the book came out I rent it from the local library like 4 times and they eventually just told me to take the damn book. Lol
I worked for a multi-billion dollar plant food and plant medicine company in the central valley. One day they brought in a crew that shot videos of the facility using drones for the company's website. About a half hour after that crew was finished filming and left I notice something about 15 feet up above where I was filling 250 gallon totes with some sort of plant food ir medicine. It was a drone about 15 inches long but I could only make out half of it because it was in like a Predator stealth mode. It wasn't like the movies it was like a plastic bottle without the shine. When I noticed it it moved quickly a few feet over and I could make out the other half of craft then it rapidly moved again and I lost it. I tried telling my coworkers but no one believed me but I'm convinced that drone crew was committing corporate espionage. That patents that company has are worth millions and millions here in the agricultural capital of the world.
Jesus christ that is a serious offense to commit
Drone warfare appears to me to be the future of modern warfare. They're just too damn effective in combat situations to not be. You can look no further than what's going on in Ukraine to see for yourselves the true effectiveness of these weapons, with the pinnacle of their success being attributed to the sinking of Russia's flagship warship, the Moskva. What's even better is the fact that the controllers of the drones aren't even putting themselves in harm's way to carry out these missions. All you really have to be is a pro gamer at this sort of thing and you'll be qualified to control one of these.
A few of these shown in the video were built 5 minutes down the road from my house on Long Island. They do some crazy shit there. It's like a mini Area 51 lol.
America really saw Starcraft Carriers and said " Yes, we want that in our arsenal". Only a matter of time before we have drone carriers spitting out a swarm of drones.
you should do the joe rogan podcast with cmdr fravor and the tic tac UFO. if there was ever a reasonable argument for aliens, that'd be it
Fella who comes in the pub and was Chief of MOD defence procurement for many years recently flew in a fighter jet off a US ship. He said the Jet doesn't kick in until they are off the ship and are only a 100 feet from the sea. He said they drop around 30 feet before the jet kicks in and it was when you're dropping in an aircraft before the Jet kicks in is extremely scary. Obviously. Railway has some great characters. You would never know what he did for a living as he sits with a pint of Guinness but he is a pure gentleman and possibly our only knighted customer.
The first focus of the Navy for the carrier launched drones is for refueling aircraft aloft, not for conducting offensive combat missions. Those will probably come after they have more experience with them. Back in June of this year, Boeing released a photo of an MQ-25 T1 drone while it was transferring fuel to an F/A-18 Super Hornet. That was on June 4, 2022.
Interesting that they didn't mention the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton. That's a serious maritime ISR platform for the Navy. High altitude, long endurance.
The drones are manned remotely, though its possible some of its automated since jet airliners can be taken off and landed with the flight computer.
no, those are autonomous that you see landing on the carrier
@@protonneutron9046 Oh wow. i didnt know they were automous. I alwasy thought they were 100% remotely manned.
@@austinverlinden2236 he is bullshitting. They have some autonomous features, but they are never fully autonomous. My company helped develop the system for controlling them on the flight deck.
3:53 feel free to ask me questions about it. I’ll answer what I’m allowed. Lol. (Proud of my hubby’s work on this).
Funny thing is the drone pilots wear flight suits, get paid for flying hours, get war ribbons for flight combat. My buddy in the Air Force is a sensor operator for the predator drone.
With no human component it can take turns that a pilot cannot. This gives it the maneuvering ability against a piloted aircraft in combat.
the disconnection will make the operator lose their sixth sense connection with their craft and make it harder to track enemy crafts. i would still put my money on the human pilot unless it is swarm tactics, and the human is out numbered and the drone's connected view from many angles make short work of the outnumbered human pilots
Before my last deployment to Iraq even though I'm a Infantry grunt, the Infantry tries to be self-sufficient. Meaning the Infantry tries to accomplish every mission without assistance from other MOS's or branches as much as possible. So I got selected to go to UAV pilot school to fly the RQ-11 Raven-B, which is a much smaller "drone" but the whole system still costs $250,000.
Also since I had to get a Secret security clearance I was also selected to be CoIST(Company Intelligence Support Team) and also get sent off to the CoIST training as well. There's a point to this...
Since I was the Intel guy for my unit I had access to the intelligence gathered from the real intel guys. Anyway something strange was happening. Somehow it seemed like the insurgents knew exactly our and allied troop movements and knew where the MQ-9 Reaper drones were heading to.
Come to find out Somehow the insurgents were able to hack and intercept the video feed from the MQ-9 Reaper drones. They were using our own equipment/weapon against us and without anyone knowing. Luckily they weren't able to take control of them or fire it's missiles, only passively intercept video feeds. The Airforce quickly fixed the issue.
Don't ever underestimate your enemy. We seem to have a tendency to learn that the hard way.
The only people that think Iraqis are stupid dirt farmers are the ones that never deployed to OIF, never left the wire/FOB or actually fought against them or they're simply total idiots themselves.
I've never seen a people do so much with so little. If you were stuck on a deserted island you'd want to have an Iraqi with you, somehow he/she would figure out a way off or rescue.
I wouldn't doubt that most UFO sightings the past decades were really just weapons testing and new jets lol
The future is here boys. Stuff I read about in sci-fi books as a child in the 70s that were written in the 60s are now used every day on Earth.
The entire purpose of the x47b drone test is to determine the feasibility of carrier launch for drone use as airborne refueling platforms, and airborne command and control, in a much smaller package
Ok, he covered it pretty well, I paused as soon as he asked, lol…I got asked that a lot, on our birds and other vids of the time. By people who limited knowledge in both those things. It can look funny as hell, as they barely move a few inches forward, then appear to be changing direction, going backwards, then forwards, holding even, so the blades don’t appear to move for a second or so, then back to barely moving forwards or backwards.
There’s also a autonomous tanker drone that could also refill the drones.
MQ-25 if i not mistaken
The X-47 project cost $813 million total (almost a billion) before being scrapped. They are not a billion per drone. US Navy is using MQ-4C Triton and RQ-4A which cost around $180 million each in 2019. And for you Brits....the MQ-4C has a Rolls Royce engine as does King Charles.
would be nice if they could make drone choppers that can fly into a battle, pick up a wounded soldier, and fly them out quickly.
Ok, the slow (looking) rotor blades on helos, os because of frame rate when recording. The less blades they have, 4-2, like the ones I worked on in the USMC, the last of the might two bladed Huey’s and Cobra’s, had much larger/massive rotor blades, as only two, instead of 4, 4 plus, depending on country and make, etc. so they went slower…by a bit, and depending on throttle/power pulled, frame rates can sync up with rotor RPM, and can even make the blades look like they aren’t moving at times, on video…as they frame rate matches the position they are in, very closely, so they barely move from original position, sometimes even look like they are spinning the wrong way, on video. That’s why that happens.
The movie you are thinking of is Lone Survivor. I grew up with one of the heros as my next door neighbor.
My husband worked on the X47b Program. We call it his 4th child.
Fluctus is an awesome awesome channel that gets footage I’ve never seen before. Great channel for anything military
Terminator's Skynet is here! LOL
Tech will never replace boots on the ground on the battlefield because ground needs to be taken and then held in the face of enemy soldiers and civilian insurgents.
Why don't the landing gear appear to fold reducing drag?
i think they are all the off white greyish color to blend in with he sky like clouds from a great distance
While the movie Enemy at the Gates depicts only half of soviet soldiers being issued a rifle and the other half being told to just pick up rifles from dead soldiers, that was made up for the movie to add a greater sense of desperation on the part of the soviet defenders. Not just did that not happen during the Battle of Stalingrad, that didn't happen on any eastern front battlefield, because that was one of the truly brutal lessons the imperial russian army had learned during WWI. During The Great War, that absolutely happened. On multiple occasions, the first wave of russian soldiers sent over the top to assault german or austro-hungarian trenches would have a rifle, but for the second wave only half would have rifles. For the entirety of imperial russia's participation in the war, they relied heavily on imports of foreign arms. After the rise of stalin and the soviet union, a major emphasis would be put on industrialization, especially in terms of rifles. So, by the time WWII rolled around they had plenty of rifles. What they didn't have enough of were the latest generation of tanks, planes, radios, and experienced officers.
The only case of russian forces being engaged and not having enough guns was a labor battalion that was made up of "reservists"(regular civilians hastily mobilized weeks prior to the beginning of the battle) who had been deployed to construct trenches and other defensive earth works, that came under fire from a german unit that was screening the advance of the main german assault force.
Other than that instance, a shortage of rifles wasn't one of the problems the red army had to deal with.
You guys should watch a movie called STEALTH it's about Unmanned Jet that is controlled by A.I and an electrical storm fries it's circuits and it goes rouge, and begins taking on its own missions....It's a pretty movie.
And nah, in the near to far future were never fully remove the human element, there’s just gonna be less of them in one area some of the publicly released stuff was to have a pilot/his aircraft linked and roughly controlling up to multiple drones, like controlling the broad formation, of they hold fire/can attack or patrol, etc…then the drone decides the best course of action it needs to take, to do the broader outline of what it’s told to do. Now I don’t know the mix, of told what to do/it figures out stuff on its own, but I imagine it’ll be a decent mix…plus you still need manned assets that can’t be hacked and taken over so easily, stuff like that. And no matter how good drones are, they are never gonna replace the amazing results of well trained, experienced people, in coming up with…creative solutions. Nor will they be as vicious as we can be, when needed, sure the drones will be cold, uncaring, but that’s far from the same, from the warrior spirit and mind set of someone who needs to do a mission no matter what. In an intelligent way. That hopefully preserves there men/assets and themselves, but will use any and all of them, including them selves to accomplish said mission. Like o said. We can be /are vicious, even blood thirsty, at least to an outside perspective that isn’t there at the same moment. Computer logic is indifferent and cold, they don’t the same drove to fight, they aren’t gonna be doing it for their buddies and brothers and sisters to the left and right of em. Now sure, they got a valid place and will definitely supplement, do important work, help save lives…well ours and our Allie’s anyways. But always gonna need people up in jets, and helos still for medivac and close air support…or coming with new ways. On the spot for doing something in combat. Or pulling a trigger. The terrifying part, is when we’ll have to fight someone who has as good of stuff as we do, that’s actually functional and fielded in numbers to matter, which is gonna be a awhile still, unless things go horribly wrong, then it be so much they caught up, it’ll be we slipped back a few notches at least. Drones are just gonna be one more thing you gotta worry about..to an extent, depending on where you are, who you are, who you’re fighting. Those silly little civilian ones they are using over there now, wouldn’t be able to work from our old jamming tech, from well over a decade before I went to Iraq twice and camp bastion once, if we didn’t want them too, our jamming pods would ground them all. So that’s tech from over 3 decades ago from us (US) and most of our bigger Nato Allie’s, that would shut all that crap down over Ukraine including their phones and Wi-Fi, drove through radios, any and all radio/wireless communications but more advanced better stuff. Than either of them have.now fighting our level tech…yeah, that would suck…haha.
Military drones always remind me of the movie Toys. Robin Williams movie
Yeah you're right, blokes, that Drones, or even Aircraft for that matter, can't win wars. Why? Aircraft can't Occupy and Hold territory. In Desert Storm (Gulf War I) the Allies spent 4 weeks in an aerial campaign to soften up the Iraqi military and its C&C. But it still had to go in on the ground with troops to take and hold the ground, to some troops disappointment in fact, as they wanted some action, because they trained so hard for it for so long. A good movie to watch on that is Jarhead with Jamie Lee Fox and Josh Hartnet. Details what it was like for the Army to just camp out in the Saudi Arabian desert for months, waiting for action, only to be shown up by the Air Assault, and only being needed for mopping up action that only took 4 days. That quick victory is why we were surprised by the prolonged campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan 10 and 12 years later.
the extraction mission you were talking about is known as extortion 17, sad story, good men were lost that day
And talking about budgets…well in 2020…we spent what…860-870 billion dollars? Russia spent 60 something billion as far as we could tell…it shows. China spent like 150 billion something in 2020…so yeah…so far on the last bit, like 8-9 months…we’ve given Ukraine a 1/3 of what Russia spent in the whole year of 2020, on their entire defense budget…ahaha. When you put it into that frame of reference…it’s insane how much we do/can spend…and all this released stuff is just about what’s to come out/is fairly well known in general. Us and you Brit’s worked on hypersonics throughout the 60-90’s had them figured out. Multiple systems from infantry based, like dragon launchers, to early dragon on vehicles, and bigger/better versions on vehicles…and fighters/ground attacks. We, US finally gave up on them in programs on the early 90’s…not cause they didn’t work, but because they were too expensive for even us, they did the same thing a good missile with a cheap chemical warhead did, especially highly refined. Cheap, relatively speaking, reliable, effective missiles and warheads, and stealth tech, drones. We and the Brit’s had great hypersonic, kinetic kill missiles back into the 70’s…no explosives on board, but the missile motor, but they were hideously expensive, for what you got. Our chemical warheads can and do intercept in coming hypersonics, lol. So they are mostly a moot point, site they can cause some casualties here and there…but we can mostly stop them, in a war, enough to win, as they waste resources on dumb shit like that. We had manned, piloted rocket/plane things in the 60’s and 70’s that could do Mach 9…with a human flying them, haha…yeah we figured all that out, long, long ago, don’t you worry no body 😏😁
Gotta love the US
Drones will be able to do 20 plus G turns, out turning any other aircraft it's manned!!
Which is why the USAF Sec said the next US fighter would be unmanned.
I also think MEDEVAC will greatly benefit from unmanned helicopters. US spending roughly $760,000,000,000 a year on the military. I think China is second with $250,000,000,000 and India is third.
Lol that's funny. Ya'll call in a "Chinese burn" over there and we call it an "Indian burn" here in the states.
I don't think unmanned tech will take over completely, but I think human soldiers will be far smaller in number as a percentage of any given military as we go on. As for what to shoot if you don't have humans to shoot at, ultimately you're controlling territory and resources. If you cut the enemy from those things, you get closer and closer to ultimate victory.
It's hard to tell at this point. We don't really know how capable drones and robots will become and what the limitations are, if they'll attain human-level decision making in general any time soon and what their concept of morals/adherence to rules are, what the costs fort these systems will look like compared to humans across varying roles, etc. Drones/bots of varying natures will replace us in a lot of roles and supplement us in others, but I think it's going to be a while before we really have a good idea of what the landscape looks like.
Don't tell that to China. There goal is to have 300 million trained soldiers, within 10 years.
@@darrinlindsey China has many more things it claims it has done or will do than actual accomplishments. Military growth is clearly their priority and concerning, but they seem to half-ass everything at the same time.
I'd say Skynet is ~15 years away. All the pieces are coming together.
And what he’s saying at like 15:00 dead on, Russia has a few, super early prototypes that don’t even work mostly roght, of they work at all, and that was before all this…they’re straight back to 70’s and 80’s, tech of the (Soviets) at the time…with a few exemptions, trickling in, china, would be closer in overal R&D but they’ve always been poor copies that barely work, and if they do, are far less capable, just look at their missiles, sore they are pushing hard to catch up, but that takes a stupid amount of money, man hours and failed projects, partial successes and the willpower and funding to see it through. And the need too push hard and stay ahead. Currently we are highest in all those factors. And I don’t care how “cheap” monetarily things are in china, 150 something billion USD isn’t gonna beat over 800 billion in R&D, fielding and maintaining, training and housing troops/equipment, not in a modern war, we’d eat them alive, as they can’t cross the pacific in anyway that matters, we can. That can’t even match us in our old Nimitz Class super carriers, let alone the new ones coming online now…they can’t match in numbers, or capability, let alone aircraft and missiles. Sure they could mess up/sink one CVBGN…one out of seven, but guess what, they’d have no navy after that, what are they goons do? Die as a functional government as we choke them off from the rest of the world, by force, and that’s with no Nato help, haha. With Nato help, it’d happen at least twice as fast. We are the only nation on earth on earth than fight a multi fronted war, and support it, on opposite sides of the globe, literally no one else has the numbers or logistics to be able to do that. And the top of the line equipment, fielded to their entire military…across the planet. Sore there will be a time, sometime, when sadly that isn’t the case…but it’s definitely not now, or the near future.our Air Force with a little Navy and USMC help could grind all of Europe under their boot, while the Navy and USMC, with a tiny amount of Air Force dod the same in the pacific…then anyone who wanted to mess with us. Would have to deal the biggest, meanest blue water fleet to ever exist…then our Army/USMC and NavSpec guys on the ground…and finally of any made here…with over 300 million, probably actually about 400-450 million in reality people who are heavily armed, lots of them vets, with a ton of training and recent experiences…especially with IED training, haha. So yeah have fun. Do you know how many fertilizer plants we have. Just for making citizen use fertilizer? Let alone bigger ones for industrial purposes? I’ll just leave it at that. Lol. Yeah, that’s an unconquerable nightmare for anyone. Our population owns more small arms, legally, and tracked, then small arms fielded by the entire US military, and with the exception of light/medium machines, grenade launchers on rifles…many of our personal firearms are way better tuned up, to work just right, smoother, less failures to function than military stuff, with a far higher mechanical accuracy and precision potential built in, often times for equal or less money. Plus you know, two big ass oceans on the way…and the coastal ranges right behind them…then real mountains right behind the coastal mountains, haha. As long as we have any sort of federal level cohesion/extremely heavy state level, no one can invade us, and win. It’d be a physic victory for the literal world to beat us. For many reasons.
I'm sure they'll keep using some drones to help out the ground forces, but as long as it's cheaper to send out a poor kid with a gun than a multimillion dollar drone, they'll keep sending out soldiers. It would take thousands of drones to replace an army, and even the Boston Dynamics robots can't handle stairs and building interiors as well as humans can.
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must not be so easily glossed over.... do do do doot.
Just so you know. The country with the second largest military budget is China, and in a year they spend less than the US spends just on Military Bases Outside the US
See, there’s drones…and then there’s drones…we don’t so much make drones…as we make full up jets (now) stealth, that work without without a pilot on board, haha. Can be refueled or do refueling in air. Network with each other and all other upgraded, 4th gen and later fighter tech…can also be controlled by the pilot/his aircraft….strike and surveillance as always, but now they and I’m guessing for awhile, our bigger ones can/did do both, so they’re the same, just better, faster, harder to find and kill, longer ranged, etc.
As absolutely amazing as that drone is, can you imagine the terror, destruction, and chaos that a handful of cheap drones like they put together in Ukraine could cause in large urban areas?
You should check out the Global Hawk surveillance drone.
For a rich nation I can see the draw of having tech like this but all I see is even less remorse when it comes to civilian casualties.
Because that would burst their comfy bubble.
For one the USA doesn’t target civilians in wars. We target infrastructure and military personnel. Wars are never pretty, there will be casualties unfortunately. The point is to minimize the casualties as much as possible. It’s because of this technology is the reason why the wars like in the Middle East never turned out to look like Ukraine were entire cities turned to rubble. So you tell me which war had more remorse? Certainly not what’s going on in Ukraine. The US are no saints but we certainly had fewer civilian casualties than the Ukraine and it hasn’t been a full year there, while we were there for 2 decades. Think about it.
@@Chitownbullz21 Ok, let me burst your bubble, In Yemen, drone attack casualties were 90 % civilians...I can go even further on it. Stop kidding yourself.
@@goodmorning192 No bubble here. But about Yemen. What benefit does US have attacking civilians targets? I’ll tell you, none. It was obviously poor reconnaissance that led to tragic civilian deaths. Hard to fight a clean war when your enemy cowardly hides behind civilians and in civilian clothes. Plus the amount of steps it takes it requires to even authorize these strikes. I’m well aware, like I said the US are no saints, along with civilians dying from strikes during the evacuation of Afghanistan trust me I know. My point was compared to other wars, casualties are far less in number compared to other wars. Like I said, war is never pretty.
@@Chitownbullz21 Yeah, I see BS there. Like I said I can go on a rampage about their poor "reconnaissance"....Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Libya...there are more and more and more.
Years ago I was playing call of duty and they had sniper drones in it. Really scary concept
I live near a US Base where these drone pilots are trained. They all look like kids, and probably have a XBox control in their pockets. I was told those are the kind of people they are looking for to pilot the drone because of their video game experience
We been using drone ships for a few years or longer
There's a few more drones that weren't mentioned here under the US Navy's Skyborg program. Freaky shit
Super Advanced, eh? Just wait until we come out with the Super Duper Advanced drone, only to be outdone by the Super Duper Back-flip Advanced drone.
React suggestion: woodstock 99’
Where is the underwater drones the Scuba Scout or the Sub Mariner,ok I just made those up but I'm sure they will design a underwater attack drone sooner or later....
Skynet ! has begun lol
21:00, You Sweet Summer Child United Kingdom Blokes.
GOD BLESS AMERICA! 🇺🇲
Can't wait until Friday when we in the US can beat England at your own game
Everything is about to be drones in the future.
No $ for Universal health care, no $ for free lunches for our school Kids, no paid maternity leave but blank checks for weapons of mass destruction! America!!!
right. Read the constitution. Id10t
Already have drone deliveries over here
The ones they used on the WTC were much cheaper.
OFFICE BLOKES need to watch Ender's game!
#OfficeBlokeDave Dave, there are NO drones that can decide to engage a target & shoot without human intervention. This level of autonomous AI absolutely does NOT exist.
Everytime i hear someone say they saw a UFO 🛸 i say Bullshit!. Its the US testing new shit lol.
Why has no one told these gents there's no pilot anywhere flying these....it's AI flown!
And of course, whatever the U.S. military allows you to see, they are already way past that technology.
There are probably more US assets in friendly countries than the countries have themselves, the US paying to defend them so they don't have to. We got your backs and you're welcome. :)
That's just USA Navy drones, we have others.
From what I understand they also have refueling drone
Hey, I recognize this! So...when are they gonna reveal the Arsenal Bird?
Anyone else thinking Skynet!! Sara Conner where are you
Awesome idea for having drones as an extraction unit. The only problem with that theory is they would have to figure out weight distribution because the helicopter is not manned it now has to carry the weight of people. So the aircraft has to be able to carry the weight of itself and the people they are extracting from the zone. If that makes sense.
but the larger helicopter drone it said it can carry weapon weight as well as cargo weight. so people could be cargo just the same right. all they would have to do is know the weight of each operator which i assume they get weighed before a mission. plus the gear they have. but even then. your still prone to rpg rocket fire that will still kill everyone anyway.
Try envisioning an entire nation of 12 year old Chinese students commanding millions of these over America. Do you like it now?
A few more years and wars will just be gaming battles will huge dollar costs. but hey a lot better then wars of the past.
Israel has even developed micro-drones that fly right up to enemy soldiers and explode.
USA is so advanced in tech it would be scary to vs the usa
Hope everyone enjoys the World Cup! Shame the US and England are starting in the same group, but I wish us both success. 🇺🇸🏴
it is NOT ok... and humanity MUST DEMAND IT STOP
The soldiers have no money for thanksgiving but we have billion dollar drone????????
You should see the video of that drone with a pistol.
Skynet begins...
hey guys,
we would love to watch you react to indian military too.
hope you would make some vedios on indian content soon.
Drones will increase conflict. As they become cheaper and more available every nation will increasingly commit to them and since they don't put your own military at risk there will be less downside to using force against your neighbors. When a leader doesn't have to worry about body bags coming home they will be more likely to 'send in the (non)troops'.
Every nation?
You mean the ones with the means ie money.
I feel like the government would be less likely to let drones die than humans. Losing a drone would hurt the bottom line more than a human life.
of course drones put your own military at risk. if you attack someone with drones they will retaliate against targets in your country.
These vids are from years ago. The way this craft works is by swarm networking intelligence. These are air to ground and air to air combat vehicles. They are also stealth. A group of these will go to attack a target and each craft knows and "sees" what the others do. If attacked the correct craft or crafts (based on position vs the enemy) will take out the threat instantly (no human lag time or slow voice comm to direct actions) and continue to the target. It is like a hive mind. Human flown aircraft have no chance. Also the high G maneuvers they can perform cannot be done by aircraft with a human inside.
US spends the $ but also has less corruption per dollar spent.
The NYPD is testing drones in the Bronx NY. God help us, these demons are playing no games w us🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Testing them as a added eye in the sky? Because there's already cameras everywhere.
The NYPD is adding
weapon carrying drones and robodogs and eventually robocops. If they shoot us dead (and they will) No one to blame but the robots. Pray for us🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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Also china n Russia like to look impressive USA looks to look less powerful then it is
future warfare is a bunch of nerds playing a rts game... im guessing south korea will become a superpower 😛