What would an entire drone army look like? How would it stack up against other modern militaries?>Drone: $20k each>Budget: $900bil>10 year budget: $9 trillion>Drone units produced per decade: 450 million dronesIs there a military on Earth that court defeat a drone army that’s 450 million strong?A drone can’t hold land, sure, but for defensive purposes, that would be unbeatable, right?
They are always drones...
>>65124912I think China can make more drones.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
>>65124912>but for defensive purposes, that would be unbeatable, right?Didn't seem to be unbeatable in Iran. They really couldn't stop the US and Israel from bombing the shit out of them.
>>65124912Proof that gen z is more fun than millenials Millennials go to war they kick in mud hut doors Gen z goes to war they make it fun rc planes and quad copters with explosives on it It’s like a trip to hobbytown USA but better
Drones are great for turtling in case of a ground assault, or hitting soft targets, but hardened locations will be impenetrable. You need some heavier and longer range shit too.
>>65125089That's actually gay as fuck, anon.
>>65124912Yeah, any country that is >500 km away. Short range drones are only effective if you got a carrier for the drone to park safely from.
>>65125119Why would you ever need to attack something 500km away? War is just for defense, right anon?
The main question is more what can be converted to drones in the near future. Drone tanks? Drone artillery? Drone frigates? Drone fighter planes? Every major countries have graying population and I expect more things to be converted to drones if only to replace humans.
I think we should beat dronefags with hammers.
>>65124912>My final abhorrent dream realized, to create a mindless drone army 7 billion strong
>>65124912https://youtu.be/x3tedlWs1XY?si=nviML1Nbk2G4uXxHlinkrel
>>65125119The distance issue seems fixable, as does the jamming problem. You don’t really have to worry about speed or interception or being shot down if you can economically fire 5,000 at once. Most of the systems capable of intercepting drones are imperfect and difficult to scale. It is an interesting idea.Warfare is quickly approaching a cliffside where defense is impossible and offense is piss easy.
>>65125348You also need intelligence capability. Sensors fusion from all the drones, fed to Starlink and back to ground control anywhere in the world under in <500 ms where then a supercomputer can find all the targets, feed the targets, and send targets to all the drones in nearby enemy location and get the drones to wipe them out. If the targets are squishy, then have drones with gun capability shoot them down one by one. If the targets are heavy targets like tanks or vehicles, a small suicide or explosives dropping drone can drop on them. Swarm hunting packs of drones that roam-patrol/find target/kill target. (Or use the drones's onboard computer to do AI compute task to find targets if enough computer/ram is available, onboard targeting model can fit in <10GB memory easily now and take <1 second for each "real time" target calculation)
>>65124912You do realise there's stuff drones can't actually fucking do yet, right? Like take down an ICBM
>>65125168>that headlineLiterally the plot of House of Dynamite.
10 billion drones, each has a face of anime girlu smiling at u. What USA do. Defeat only option.Soon all human die.Only drone transcend. New life. Better.
>>65124912Soon. Like within 10-20 years. We will have full VR "commander" drones remotely piloted by humans to lead semi-autonomous drones. For air, land and sea. The best soldiers would be those with cat-like twitch reflexes and hawk-like 3D spatial awareness. Basically Starcraft e-sports players. The days of roided up jocks for war are coming to an end.
>>65124912Thats the future. Not just suicide drones though - drone tanks, drone planes, drone infantry, drone artillery, salvage drones, drone interceptors... no human will die in the war of the future, death by combat will be an old concept. the loser will be whoever runs out of drones first.
>>65124912Not enough - we must produce at least one drone for every person that's alive on the planet. Preferably three or four in case of misses.
>>65127280>RipsawI've literally heard nothing about this thing ever since they showed it off. I know that they've allegedly been used in Ukraine to test it out but nothing ever since than
>>65124912>Send out drones and only drones>Gun jams or other malfunction>A human can fix it>A drone can't>Gun stays jammed
