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Look into loitering munition. Drone can stay up for hours, and if it recognizes target (tank, truck...) it will attack it. Most scary is fully autonomous mode
by throw73848 3y ago
Look into loitering munition. Drone can stay up for hours, and if it recognizes target (tank, truck...) it will attack it.
Most scary is fully autonomous mode (no GPS, no remote control). For past mile it uses image recognition, and can not be jammed.
Now imagine what this would do to aircraft carrier! Upper decks are very vulnerable!
US has three problems when it comes to drones:
1) No cheap reliable air defense. It can not take down hundreds of thousands of attacking drones. Patriots are like $1M per rocket.
2) No cheap kamikaze drones with large explosive payload. Bayraktar is basically a cruise missile at 1/1000th cost.
3) No software for self autonomy, and electronic warfare resistance. US relies to much on GPS and satellite signals that can be jammed.
Source: I follow russian telegram war channels.
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