video killed the radio star, drone killed the soldier

[Hektor12]

The only problem with that is the smaller you make something, the less resilient it's gonna be. One of the Russians first combat drones was just a flying ball with a PKM, the Ka-137. With a smaller drone comes smaller optics, virtually no bullet resistance etc. A big gust of wind can take them down pretty easy.

Yeah, that explaint a need for "larger" platform as a dock. This could be either another predator or tb2 style drone or a helicopter like Commanche or Bell invictus. And in a network style warfare, tihnk of this drones feed a jet like f-35, or f-35 directs them to target using its sophisticated sensors. Its all possible and whoever builds a better system would have great advantage.

[Fraisod]

Do the same thing to the enemy then it just becomes who can produce more drones.

Unfortunately, that would be China.

[PaleoEuropean]

Yeah, that explaint a need for "larger" platform as a dock. This could be either another predator or tb2 style drone or a helicopter like Commanche or Bell invictus. And in a network style warfare, tihnk of this drones feed a jet like f-35, or f-35 directs them to target using its sophisticated sensors. Its all possible and whoever builds a better system would have great advantage.

But then you are defeating the purpose of making war efficient a pilot and a jet is worth like 1,000 soldiers. Human life is pretty cheap and humans have the best computers stock. With any type of network comes a high probability of error. A small drone couldn't carry a sensor to defend the jet and the jet would have to remove all of it's weapons to control multiple drones at once. It just becomes a paradox mixed with the same fact of just using a tiny nuke to create enough energy to fry the drones computers. And if countries were using drone swarms nukes would already be on the table for anyone who has them. They may not use a big one, but they can get away with using a tactical one for defense.

[Hektor12]

But then you are defeating the purpose of making war efficient a pilot and a jet is worth like 1,000 soldiers. Human life is pretty cheap and humans have the best computers stock. With any type of network comes a high probability of error. A small drone couldn't carry a sensor to defend the jet and the jet would have to remove all of it's weapons to control multiple drones at once. It just becomes a paradox mixed with the same fact of just using a tiny nuke to create enough energy to fry the drones computers. And if countries were using drone swarms nukes would already be on the table for anyone who has them. They may not use a big one, but they can get away with using a tactical one for defense.

Who can nuke us, seriously ? NATO has a good stock of nukes everywhere around the world; in the europe, mid-east and asia-pacific, surrounding Russia and China. IMHO Nato is very succesful at preventing a nuke strike on itself by this way, and also note the early warning radars covering most of the threat zones. Any power to nuke Nato should be crazy because in a very short time Nato is able to deliver good bunch of counter-nukes.

[PaleoEuropean]

Who can nuke us, seriously ? NATO has a good stock of nukes everywhere around the world; in the europe, mid-east and asia-pacific, surrounding Russia and China. IMHO Nato is very succesful at preventing a nuke strike on itself by this way, and also note the early warning radars covering most of the threat zones. Any power to nuke Nato should be crazy because in a very short time Nato is able to deliver good bunch of counter-nukes.

Well in theory you just need to create an emp. They wouldn't need to nuke nato countries, they would just have to let off a tac one close enough to the drones to disable them.

[Ford]

Drones showed their effectiveness during short Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, quickly establishing domination of airspace, owning the battlefield. Before the war, Azerbaijan acquired numerous Bayraktar drones. Bayraktars are able to carry 55kg of front bombs. The Azeris also acquired more advanced Kamikaze drones. They are able to stay in the air for long periods of time, videotape the subject from a distance, and fire targeted missiles at appropriate moments. These drones also detect radars and have thermal cameras to identify people in different terrains. With their help, the Azeris destroyed virtually all the radars of the Armenians with an ingenious strategy. Azeris sent old, already decommissioned An-2 aircrafts unmanned into the airspace of the battlefield, and when the Armenians powered the radars to locate the planes, the Kamikaze drones took to investigate the locations and destroyed them. After gaining complete control of the airspace, the Azeris began to systematically destroy Armenian tanks, cannons, missiles, vehicles, and battle stations with drones. The morale of the Armenians declined rapidly as missiles and bombs rained down from the sky all the time and the enemy was nowhere to be seen.

Quite impressive.

[Harkonnen]

hohhoijakkata

[Harkonnen]

During the 1950s and 1960s the RNLAF mistakenly believed that the missile would replace the fighter and replaced several squadrons with missile units. The introductiion of the Mig 25 and later F16 cured them of that delusion.

Theoretically AI controlled fighter jet could be more effective than one with dude inside it, because it would not be limited by the g-forces guy driving it can take, so you could design something that can perform much more extreme maneuvers.

[Jehan]

I up the thread due to a fun news related to drones.

French army is training eagles to take down drone.