British F-35Bs to bring vertical landing abilities to highways
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I disagree.
Being able to put a pilot inside a weapon and then have them fly, react, deploy and return is a lot better than building stacks of drones and then just hitting a wall of RF jamming, which will soon be everywhere on the battlefield, even more so than was in Iraq for counter IED work.
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I disagree. Being able to put a pilot inside a weapon and then have them fly, react, deploy and return is a lot better than building stacks of drones and then just hitting a wall of RF jamming, which will soon be everywhere on the battlefield, even more so than was in Iraq for counter IED work.
A lot of good RF jamming is going to do to that swarm of autonomous kamikaze drones homing right in on the RF sources...
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#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree. Being able to put a pilot inside a weapon and then have them fly, react, deploy and return is a lot better than building stacks of drones and then just hitting a wall of RF jamming, which will soon be everywhere on the battlefield, even more so than was in Iraq for counter IED work.
A lot of good RF jamming is going to do to that swarm of autonomous kamikaze drones homing right in on the RF sources...
Ukraine deployed some nice German canon designed against drone swarms. USA has laser version of it. It will be interesting fights of the future for sure.
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I disagree. Being able to put a pilot inside a weapon and then have them fly, react, deploy and return is a lot better than building stacks of drones and then just hitting a wall of RF jamming, which will soon be everywhere on the battlefield, even more so than was in Iraq for counter IED work.
It's "soon" (which is always 5 to 7 years out) vs cheap $35k drones taking out German Leopard II tanks [1] in an active war right now. The drones are already here and are winning.
[1] https://twitter.com/colonelcassad/status/1677615793956171776
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#8Sikorsky is gonna bring back the Comanche. I can feel it. Yeah baby!
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the pilot isn't the expensive kit, although the flight-hours to train them may be. Even an unmanned NGAD will probably cost ~500MM.
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I disagree. Being able to put a pilot inside a weapon and then have them fly, react, deploy and return is a lot better than building stacks of drones and then just hitting a wall of RF jamming, which will soon be everywhere on the battlefield, even more so than was in Iraq for counter IED work.
"a wall of RF jamming"
When using AI controlled I think the poster meant local AI controlled, no RF. We probably will also see laser communication from satellite to drones, which will be much more difficult to jam.