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What surprises me is that these kinds of drones aren't already standard equipment. Even in the mid 2000s I thought that these types of drones were the future of
by Aerroon 3y ago
What surprises me is that these kinds of drones aren't already standard equipment. Even in the mid 2000s I thought that these types of drones were the future of warfare.
If you have enough of them you could use them to sweep out areas. Launch a bunch and have them map out the place. You can have them carry weapons and other such things, eg laser communications networks.
Back then I figured that by the 2020-2030s ships would exist that would primarily carry (larger) drones. Those drones could then carry these smaller drones into their locations to do all the things they need to do.
- jonhohle 3y ago> what about a turret that shoots smaller turrets? - Torbjörn, Overwatch
- meheleventyone 3y agoThere's heavy use of EW on both sides. You need a fairly decent signal to pilot a drone like this as it has to support both sending video back to the operator and commands to the drone. As I understand things both sides are using these sorts of piloted drones extensively to attack any armored vehicles where possible and bunkers on the front line otherwise. For example this rather depressing article cites Russian manufacturing capacity as outstripping Ukraine: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukraine-losing-drone-war-eric-schmidt https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukraine-losing-drone-...
- Solvency 3y agoThe thing is, they probably do exist. Especially in the US possession. You just don't get to see or hear about them.
- lm28469 3y agoI think they've been researching these for a while now: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KBMU6l6GsdM&pp=ygUfRmlyc3QgYXJteSBkcm9uZSBsZXZpdGF0aW5nIHVzYQ%3D%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KBMU6l6GsdM&pp=ygUfRmlyc3QgYXJ...