Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year
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Re: Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year
#2Reminder: The Trump family has direct involvement in drone companies
https://apnews.com/article/trump-sons-powerus-drone-intercep...
Re: Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year
#3holy shit!
Re: Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year
#4Reminder: The Trump family has direct involvement in drone companies https://apnews.com/article/trump-sons-powerus-drone-intercep...
>Reminder: The Trump family
Do you really need to go past that. They're like a "trump" card for the grift economy.
Re: Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year
#5> Funding tied to the little-known Defense Autonomous Warfare Group spans procurement, research, training and sustainment
Someone really wanted to name a department DAWG.
Re: Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year
#6Doesn’t seem anywhere near enough.
All future and present conflict is fundamentally based around drones.
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#7And they bought three new drones!
Re: Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year
#8Doesn’t seem anywhere near enough. All future and present conflict is fundamentally based around drones.
I'm not sure how true that is. Sure it's what we're seeing in Ukraine right now with both sides using them a lot, but my understanding is that has to due with the fact that neither side is able to get air superiority with conventional aircraft. The same reason Iran is using a lot of drones now. It doesn't seem like the US would be in a conflict where they don't have air superiority.
Now I would agree that the US military can still find uses for drones, and that many of the people it fights will have a large usage of drones, but I don't think it's fair to say all conflict will be based around them.
Re: Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year
#9The most surprising thing here is that the US was previously only spending $225 Million on drones when it’s been fully apparent for the past decade(s) that drones were the future of warfare.
Re: Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year
#10The most surprising thing here is that the US was previously only spending $225 Million on drones when it’s been fully apparent for the past decade(s) that drones were the future of warfare.
Took a war to realize this.