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If drones are so magically cheap, the carrier deploys its own magically cheap defensive drone swarm to protect itself when attacked by drones and remains unscat
by ThrowawayR2 4y ago
If drones are so magically cheap, the carrier deploys its own magically cheap defensive drone swarm to protect itself when attacked by drones and remains unscathed.
- marshray 4y agoWhat if a defensive drone swarm, to be effective, must be generations more advanced than the attacking drone swarm? There could be an interim period of many years where very important stuff is very vulnerable.
- dogcomplex 4y agoWould expect this to be the dominant countermeasure in the case where drones are a significant threat, yeah. Though actually I'm coming around to the idea that a bunch of AI-targeted flak guns are sufficient, and that carriers are probably fine either way due to how close a series of missiles containing the swarm would have to get anyway.
- kragen 4y agoYeah, that's the future I'm pointing to: the aircraft carrier itself is no longer militarily relevant, because what counts are the drone swarms. But there's no particular reason to expect that this future will be a Mohist one in which peace is ensured because magically cheap defensive drone swarms make every fortress impregnable and thus combatants' home territories always remain unscathed; at least as likely is a Second Variety future in which drone swarms are more effective for attack than for defense, perhaps even after all the human combatants are dead.