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> All other things being equal, the country with faster microchips will have better combat drones That's very unlikely imo. When it comes to drones.. no matter
by saidinesh5 2y ago
> All other things being equal, the country with faster microchips will have better combat drones
That's very unlikely imo.
When it comes to drones.. no matter how fast your computation is, there are other bottlenecks like how fast the motors can spin up, how fast the sensor readings are, how much battery efficient they are etc...
Right now the 8 bit ESCs are still as competitive as 32 bit ESC, a lot of the "follow me" tasks were using lot less computational power than what your typical smartphone these days offers...
- logicchains 2y agoCurrent drones are very limited compared to what they could do with a lot more processing power and future hardware developments. E.g. imagine a drone that could shoot a moving target hundreds of metres away in the wind, while it itself was moving very fast.
- nolist_policy 2y agoBattleships could do that in the 1960s without any silicon: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4 A drone moves faster, but I don't think that changes the calculations.
- pjc50 2y agoThe difficult bit for the drone is probably spotting the target. There doesn't seem to be a great interest in having (small) drones shoot things yet, all the current uses seem to be: - drone itself is the munition - drone is the spotter for other ground based artillery - drone dropping unguided munitions (e.g. grenades) "Large" drones (aircraft rather than quadcopter) seem to follow the same rules as manned aircraft and engage with guided or unguided munitions of their own. If the drone is cheap enough then "drone as munition" seems likely to win.
- blacksmith_tb 2y agoNot that I am eager to see armed drones, but I would have thought recoil would be a hard problem for such a light vehicle?