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In the limit, we get rid of navies and stick swarms of drones in 40-ft shipping containers, and then just sail container ships with 10K+ drones aboard around.
by nostrademons 6y ago
In the limit, we get rid of navies and stick swarms of drones in 40-ft shipping containers, and then just sail container ships with 10K+ drones aboard around.
- nradov 6y agoAnd where are the sensors?
- nostrademons 6y agoPresumably on slow high-flying drones (think like a U-2) or on a balloon. For drones that go under 30 mph you can actually solar-power them, letting them stay aloft indefinitely. I'd expect to see a shift toward more visual and IR sensors as well, to combat stealth technologies. Modern ultra-HD cameras + image recognition algorithms are a lot more sensitive than human eyes are, and you can field many more drones than AWACS aircraft with much less cost of a loss, letting you bring the relevant detection platforms in closer.
- nradov 6y agoVisual and IR sensors don't work well in bad weather. Modern cameras have superior resolution to human eyes but dynamic range is still worse. Solar powered drones don't have the power or payload to handle useful radars. For that mission you need something like an RQ-4, which is roughly equivalent to a U-2 in performance and just as expensive.