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Drones seem the obvious future to me. Bulk build and just overwhelm the manufacturing capacities of your enemies for pennies on the dollar.
by upon_drumhead 3y ago
Drones seem the obvious future to me. Bulk build and just overwhelm the manufacturing capacities of your enemies for pennies on the dollar.
- throwoutway 3y ago> Bulk build and just overwhelm the manufacturing capacities of your enemies for pennies on the dollar. Why would China not win this arms race?
- MilStdJunkie 3y agoDoD forgot how to make things for pennies, and the institutional wall[1] against commodity is too high and too thick. It'll take a sizeable and strategic US defeat to overturn the applecart. Best case, we manage to get a few decent drones for $10m a pop, but we still risk getting shanked by a frickin' mob of Chinese crap, because they don't need to go that far to get into theatre. I dig what Anduril's trying[2] to do with Roadrunner, but it's still too damn expensive - the hard kill mechanism still results in a total loss-of-vehicle. [1] I.e., quivering mass of overpaid box checkers getting salaried as Analyst IIIs. [2] There's some whispers, too, that Anduril isn't actually able to operationalize any of their widgets at any sort of scale, but I don't have any inside eyes on this. I DO see, though, that their fab capacity is . . not amazing.