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How could smart drones scale massively more than firearms and trucks? If anything, we see from the conflict in Ukraine that keeping smart weapons supplied in a

How could smart drones scale massively more than firearms and trucks? If anything, we see from the conflict in Ukraine that keeping smart weapons supplied in a modern conflict it a huge effort that needs a lot of interconnected players.

ceejayoz 4y ago
One person can control, at most, about two guns and one truck at a time.
- dougabug 4y ago
  > One person can control, at most, about two guns and one truck at a time. A really big gun, or missile (battery)…
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lm28469 4y ago
This isn't the same problem at all. The weapons we have trouble supplying are huge (howitzer with smart rounds, &c.) and require good roads and rails You could drop hundreds of autonomous drone by air, make them land somewhere and wait in standby until they get activated or detect a threat. They scale massively because 1 guy with 100 rifles won't do much more than 1 guy with 1 rifle, 1 guy with 100 trucks won't move faster than 1 guy with 1 truck. 0 guy with 100 drones would potentially kill 100 guys simultaneously for cheap since switchblade style drones are glorified DJIs with a grenade straped at the front
- RealityVoid 4y ago
  I admit that control has the _possibility_ to scale well. Supply, on the contrary, it would be much harder to maintain.
  - sangnoir 4y ago
    That's another point in favor of drones: you can skip field maintenance and do it a the home base and deploy/recover them at time of mission, en masse. Human soldiers has to maintain their equipment in the field/forward base - which is a different set of logistical problems
ramesh31 4y ago
>How could smart drones scale massively more than firearms and trucks? I suspect we will start seeing the first true drone swarm deployments in Ukraine over the next couple years. The world is simply not ready for how horrifying it will be. These things can be manufactured for a few hundred bucks a piece. Sony can pump out 10 million PlayStations in a few months. What happens when that kind of logistics and manufacturing is applied to kamikaze drones? You get swarms of tens of thousands of them. The entire future of land warfare from this point on will be an arms race between drone swarms. And the swarms will take on combined arms aspects; there will be AA, AT, AP, incendiary, electronic warfare, observation, and hunter-killer variants. Winning wars in the future will consist of choosing the correct size and makeup of your swarm to counter the enemy's capability.

ceejayoz 4y ago

One person can control, at most, about two guns and one truck at a time.

dougabug 4y ago
> One person can control, at most, about two guns and one truck at a time. A really big gun, or missile (battery)…

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lm28469 4y ago

This isn't the same problem at all. The weapons we have trouble supplying are huge (howitzer with smart rounds, &c.) and require good roads and rails You could drop hundreds of autonomous drone by air, make them land somewhere and wait in standby until they get activated or detect a threat. They scale massively because 1 guy with 100 rifles won't do much more than 1 guy with 1 rifle, 1 guy with 100 trucks won't move faster than 1 guy with 1 truck. 0 guy with 100 drones would potentially kill 100 guys simultaneously for cheap since switchblade style drones are glorified DJIs with a grenade straped at the front

RealityVoid 4y ago
I admit that control has the _possibility_ to scale well. Supply, on the contrary, it would be much harder to maintain.
- sangnoir 4y ago
  That's another point in favor of drones: you can skip field maintenance and do it a the home base and deploy/recover them at time of mission, en masse. Human soldiers has to maintain their equipment in the field/forward base - which is a different set of logistical problems

ramesh31 4y ago

>How could smart drones scale massively more than firearms and trucks? I suspect we will start seeing the first true drone swarm deployments in Ukraine over the next couple years. The world is simply not ready for how horrifying it will be. These things can be manufactured for a few hundred bucks a piece. Sony can pump out 10 million PlayStations in a few months. What happens when that kind of logistics and manufacturing is applied to kamikaze drones? You get swarms of tens of thousands of them. The entire future of land warfare from this point on will be an arms race between drone swarms. And the swarms will take on combined arms aspects; there will be AA, AT, AP, incendiary, electronic warfare, observation, and hunter-killer variants. Winning wars in the future will consist of choosing the correct size and makeup of your swarm to counter the enemy's capability.