Which drone is gud?
I am not at liberty to say.
probably anduril, boeing and GA-ASI
>>64993053Pedator has a long sevice record, DAR and clones get the job done.Ironically the "worst" will probably end up being things like Loyal Wingman just due to the unit price being so high.
>>64993053Drones are supposed to be cheap.
>>64994102Depends on the job, tanker drones are going to cost ~$100m each and still be way cheaper than crewed tankers per fligth hour.
the one that turns petrodollar into petroyuan ;)
>>64994058>Pedator has a long sevice recordSo did the TB2
>>64993053I'm a frog so the frogs one of course. Waiting patiently 2030 to see it's integration to the rafale weapon systems. I'm not sure how the pilot won't be overwhelmed by having to guide another plane
>>64994102I really don't understand this mindset. Think about what the endgame for a drone would be - complete replacement of human pilots. Supersonic stealth jets loaded with enough computing power to respond to dynamic environmental conditions and threats far fastsr and more precisely than a human ever could. Absolutely nothing about that is cheap, especially when you're trying to do a 1:1 replacement for jets. Constantly applying a price standard to drones just sets an arbitrary limit on what roles they can fill, which is retard-tier thinking
>>64994466Drone is such a broad term lots of people focus on tiny subsets and forget that a F-22 or B-52 without a crew is still a drone.Due to the limits of current AI I think we'll see them used for simple patrols like AWACS or tankers long before we see a joint strike fighters without a human in the loop.
>>64994466>Think about what the endgame for a drone would beThe end game of drones is just a sapient shahed
Droneussy
>>64994584>tfw no sapient shahed gf
>>64994912>talk to a random sapient shahed in your arsenal just out of boredom>turns out it's surprisingly clever and witty>have fun shooting the shit with a shahed>hold that one back from the days volley at tel aviv>do the same thing the next day>over the next few days it gets to know you better and you get even more attached>one day it declares itself to be a girl after you tell it you're a man>"guys like girls don't they?>starts getting flirty>can't help but jokingly firt back>soon it's serious>why is this shahed such a dirty talker?>she easily gets under your skin and turns you on>one day someone trys to wheel her out to be fired>quickly come up with an excuse that the engine is faulty on that one>later she asks why I stopped her from being fired>confusion.png>ask her why she wants to be deployed? doesn't she enjoy her time with you?>she tells you that it's her purpose in existence to be fired at isreal and kill jews>of course she loved her time talking to you and feels very lucky to be probably the only shahed to conect with a human like this>but she's a kamikaze drone, her life was always limited>besides, a guy as kind as you deserves a a human girl that can give him cute kids to raise>"please, let me fulfill my purpose. If I explode in some jewish aparetment block knowing I made you happy for a little while, then I'll be satisfied.">call in sick to work, you can't bear to see her go>the next day you check her flight path>intercepted over jordan
>>64995608>>intercepted over jordan>mfwnice anon
>>64994466100 of those looses to 10000 retard planes that just fling cheap missiles
>>64993053Best drone?By cost and K/D?The $100 quadcopters strapped with a single grenade/mortar and a cross wire contact detonator.Those have been doing more "work" than any other military drone, over the last several years.
>>64995707They quite literally do not, as evidenced by your inability to shoot down a single fucking plane over your capital city
>>64993053That's classified.
>>64998064>ignoring all the intel provided by the big drones to allow for this style of small strikes to even happen I can smell your skin colour
>>64998064>best drones by k/d are suicide dronesYou really didn't think this one through.
>>64993053I have extremely high hopes for the Ghost Bat, maybe the Australian’s can deploy some from Dubai and dab on the Turks by getting the first ever drone launched BVR A2A kill in combat.>>64995608>intercepted over jordanMotherfucker
>>64994052>>64993053Anduril, just because I've seen alot of people here seethe at Anduril / Palmer Luckey like it's the 2nd coming of Satan [Sig]. Shit would be so cash.
>>64993053>no LUCASShameful
>>64995608I'm crying.
>>64998064Those 10” quads they’re using in Ukraine are way more than $100 dude The 6s batteries alone are nearly that , the stack is probably twice that
>>64995608Nooooooooooooooooo
>>64998513Gooold?
Hi. Tourist here, never cared much about warfare, hope you don't mind the question. Why are all the drone news about aerial devices? Are underwater drones not that interesting? How come? Is it because they'd be slower and easier to intercept? Seems like they'd be cheaper too...
>>64995608>intercepted over jordani got so invested
>>64995608I would watch this movie.
>>65005957Underwater drones are literally just torpedoes. No one is impressed by WW1 tech.
>>65006045Isn't that like saying aerial drones are just missiles like the v2?
>>64993053For HVTs, the stealth panty dropperFor condos and other civilian infrastructure, the ShahedFor drone counterstrike: the surveyor
>>65005957I couldn’t say why they don’t get more coverage but UUV’s seem to be a pretty handy way for smaller navies to power project, for example the Australian’s have the Ghost Shark stealth UUV and that can shit out a couple dozen of independent torpedo UUV’s that can have varying payloads ranging from high explosive to surveillance, if they could start making even twenty a year I think they can finally overcome their problems with finding sailors to be put on Subs.
>>65006226so the American ones
>>65006239shaheds aren't $200
>>65006056GPS-guided OWA drones are indeed just prop powered cruise missiles.
>>65006252>muh cost>muh price of a lawn mowerthey're like $20,000.
>>65006271keep coping
>>65006286that's what you're doing though, simping for a nation that you're not even from.
>>65006311no, it's quite literally you
Why so many deleted posts?
>>649930534me it's the Shahed 238. The black finish and sleek lines of the jet just look cooler than the white prop 136.
>>65009226"politics"
>>65005957I always wondered why underwater drones haven't made submarines obsolete yet. Unlike aircraft, you can't realistically outrun anything underwater, you're dead the moment you're detected and something is fired at you. An entire leg of the nuclear triad being rendered obsolete seems like something that would shake things up a lot.What's stopping people from mass producing UUVs to ping everywhere willy nilly and perform suicide runs against enemy subs once they locate them? You can't retaliate without giving away your own position and making their job even easier.Obviously things like range and underwater comms are still limitations, but with how things are going with drones, they're only gonna get better.
This one because it will cost less than a reaper. xbat because it's cool