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While reading the comments I shared most oft the dystopian visions of people being hunted down by scary drone swarms. But armor (especially armored vehicles) i
by normaler 5y ago
While reading the comments I shared most oft the dystopian visions of people being hunted down by scary drone swarms.
But armor (especially armored vehicles) is still a thing and for something to be able to be fast and manouverable it also needs to be designed within size and weight constraints, which automatically limits possible payload and armor.
So if there ia a technology to race around a forrest and autonomously find and engage slower targets, there must also exist the technology to engage flying objects with something like the Phalanx system, while not facing the same weight constraints as the moving attacker.
It probably boils down to target saturation in symmetrical warfare and the end of assymetrical warfare fantasys akin to Wolverines.
- exo762 5y agoShooting down drones on-sight should become a societal norm. Using automated systems, which should be cheap and accessible to everyone.
- rpmisms 5y agoThat would require guns becoming a societal norm again, which would require personal responsibility and self-control becoming societal norms again.
- krapp 5y ago>That would require guns becoming a societal norm again, which would require personal responsibility and self-control becoming societal norms again. As an American, I can guarantee you the latter is not required for the former.
- rpmisms 5y agoI'm an American and radically pro-gun. I'm also radically pro-responsibility. If we want to renormalize firearm ownership (As in, you can mention it in Whole Foods without getting dirty looks), we need to reshape our culture of safety and ownership of our own actions.
- vidarh 5y agoThe challenge will be cost. If you hide your expensive slaughter bots in a swarm of cheap toys that only shares an outward appearance, your opponent need to take out all of your drones, while you only need to get lucky once. Couple that with good enough autonomous navigation and imagine an adversary suddenly releasing thousands of drones in between people and traffic in a city where they don't care about collateral damage, but you do.
- angelzen 5y agoArmored vehicles are obsolete. See Azerbaidjan campaign in Nagorno Karabakh. More than 200 tanks & armored vehicles obliterated over a few weeks by drones raining hell from above.
- imtringued 5y agoObsolete against what? How do you occupy territory from the air?
- angelzen 5y agoThe assumption behind your question is that the victors somehow owe something to the defeated, akin to US occupation of Germany and Japan post WW2. US as a superpower is a huge outlier. Most of history developed along the lines of the Trail of Tears, if not downright Tamerlane. Use drones to create an air kill zone and keep the enemy military from stepping in said territory. Expel potentially hostile civilians. Reward your cousins with free land in the freshly depopulated lands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_war#Return_of_occupied_territories_and_flight_of_Armenian_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_war#Retu...
- jmnicolas 5y ago> there must also exist the technology to engage flying objects This is called a shotgun wielded by the best AI ever devised: a human. The Talibans proved that low tech isn't dead.