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China's Drone Carrier Hints at 'Swarm' Ambitions for Pacific

• fnordpiglet 4y ago
  This is almost certainly the future of warfare. Cheap and plentiful autonomous robots working together as a swarm seems essentially unstoppable other than through EMP means.
  • giuliomagnifico 4y ago
    Yes but there should exist a global regulation for autonomous weapons, unfortunately lots of nations don’t want it and it’s still on hold…
  • rektide 4y ago
    Almost certainly the future of warfare in similar ways to how Chemical Warfare was shaping up to be. This is a weapon that only works on a very small scale, because as soon as it's deployed at even modest scale by an aggressor, the world will & should get very very very angry & would be immensely justified in taking extraordinary measures against any country deploying a system of such mechanized slaughter. That said, I don't think drones are quite as unstoppable as they might at first feel, at a nation vs nation scale. We're starting to get ok at laser defense, and that near-instant speed negates a lot of the advantages of a flighty, small drones. It'd be harder but we could probably also adapt flak & re-engineer a better "proximity fuse" that can acquire these small targets, and get decent results.