>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmPaiqfywd8Well /k/, what do we think about Anduril's latest product
Frontal LEDs and angling entirely performative rule of cool shitExpensive, mediocre, only thing cool is the sensor stack and the counter munitions.
>>65350653Looks like a waste of money
>>65350653Kino>>65350666>>65350678>The Thunder is aimed at "anyone who operates Apache, anyone who operates armed reconnaissance helicopters,”
>>65350686Seems cheaper to use loiter drones
>>65350653i should start figuring out how to get a job in the defense industry
>>65350653I want to fuck it, unprotected
>>65350653Just ripping off MGR at this point.
>>65350653here is the accompanying anime shorthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4LOf_eleAM
I LOVE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
>>65350653Just replace the props with jet engines and you've got one of those hunter-killer robots from the Terminator series.
>>65350678It might be a little overpriced and generate anduril a little too much profit but guess who pays for it. Not the taxpayer. China.
>>65351075>China.I think you mean, chinese tax payer.
>>65351075I'm not buying your shitty rc copter, Palmer
it's the fucking Hunter-Killer from terminator.Thanks Palmer. what a jackass
I hate this fucking shit
>>65350817what the fuck Palmer?
>>65350817>this is the man developing the latest and greatest autonomous killing machineswe live in hell
I hate tolkienfags
Make an autonomous reusable drone that sources domestically produced engines which can be scaled past 30,000 units a month including payload/kit.
>>65350653https://www.anduril.com/news/thunder>The tiltrotor configuration, series hybrid-electric powertrain, and rotor technology provides Thunder with the range necessary to support global self-deployment. Alternatively, Thunder can be packed into a standard shipping container for transport by air, road, rail, or sea, offering the multi-modal transport logistics required to reach any fight.>Modular internal main and nose payload module bays enable Thunder to host lethal combinations of precision munitions, air-launched effects, rockets, electronic warfare payloads, counter-UAS force protection, and cargo, and is provisioned for rapid integration of future mission systems. For example, Thunder’s main payload module can be configured with ten air-to-ground missiles (e.g. Hellfire, JAGM, Barracuda-100M), sixteen launched effects (e.g. Altius-600), or seventy-six 70mm rockets, plus an additional twelve counter-UAS effectors in the nose payload module, providing a mix of effects to address a wide variety of threats during a single sortie.>Teaming multiplies the mass that Thunder brings to the fight. By pairing multiple Thunder aircraft with a single crewed platform, commanders can achieve a step-change in combat mass that enables formations to defeat more targets, sustain operations longer, and keep crews farther from the most lethal threats. By teaming three Thunder aircraft with each Apache, for example, a Combat Aviation Brigade will achieve a 3x increase in available munitions without placing additional pilots in harm’s way, all at a fraction of the cost of a similarly-sized formation of exclusively crewed aircraft.
>>65350653>>65350817
>>65350653>Well /k/, what do we think about Anduril's latest productmore scamduril cringe
>>65351212Hmm, neat.
>>65351237>created uniquely for a dead board of a fee hundred posters>because...I said so What mental illness does to a mf
>>65351237There's like maybe 1K of us on the best day, none of us have policy power. That's fucktarded.
>>65350653can I get a banana for scale
>>65351245I would 100% believe that both Luckey and Hegseth have been regulars here for years
>>65351237uh oh zigger melty
>>65351214>TOS-1A as AAMein Monke, this is the greatest invention since the quantum zashquar particles!
>>65351212kinda remind me of skynet gunship
>>65350653Skynet once again sends its thanks to humanity for building all the tools it will need for takeover once it gains sentience.
>>65351591I assume you mean sapience, I don't know how feeling would impact a rogue AI
>>65350653>tilt-rotorsApparently these things are so easy to build that even a software company can do it.
>>65351237seething multipolarfag lol
>>65351594Yeah, I misremembered the line>It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th
>>65351610If you don't have a crew to keep alive some failure rate is acceptable.
>>65350653Soon...
>>65351237Christ you fuckers can't even have fun anymore here
something something cyberpunk dystopia, you're in one.
>>65351734They don't want you to know about this one trick, but if you're planning to suck up Fed money, you don't need to deliver on your contract at all.
>>65351757Man, I miss those edits. Remember when 4chan was good>inb4 it was never goodIt was better.
Also the machining might be too complex per unit to produce in extreme quantities.
Every day and every post about them I become more confident that this company is some kind of elaborate scam.
>>65350701What skills do you have anon?
>>65350817Based
>>65351237Yup it fucking reeks of jewshill in here.
>>65351817other than lots of experience leading PvP groups on vidya, nothing relevant to what i think they'd be looking for (and I'm not posting my entire resume here, lol). I do have the time - hopefully, anyways - to at least take a 2 year college course.honestly I'd just like to upskill in general. grunt work is fucking boring.
>>65351940Just make sure you score high on the flow chart.
>>65351962wow that's really deep anon
>>65351940I'm in the same boat. I've spent so much time in the crony capitalist end of the DOD and DOT it's completely demoralizing. I want America to win so we can purge our ranks of morally bankrupt cogs in this idiot machine. Luckey is at least talking that talk and if I'm not mistaken they are now counting their Shahed kills.>>65351904He made that kino for you, anon. Say thank you.
>>65351962Yes, killing people is bad. You know what else is bad? Getting killed. You don't develop and/or buy a technology, your competitor does. Are you more comfortable with the US holding the biggest murder stick or, say, Russia or an Islamic religious state?
>>65352041Struck a nerve? I thought psychos were supposed to be cool.
>>65352065You didn't strike any nerves, young padavan.
>>65352041>killing people is badPsyop.
>>65351174Dude become a billionaire at like 20 and is just living every teenagers wouldn't it be cool if fantasy.>has 6 blackhawks >own a navy patrol boat with actual m2 browning's> has a nuclear missile base that he bought to store the world's largest video game collection.
>>65351214Bruh... I don't think generals are young enough to like that shit.
>>65351237So happy for how well her transition is going. She looks and sounds so cute now!
>>65352070in an ideal market the quality of goods will be at the very top and profits will be at 0. the fact that you'll quickly become a billionaire with the government at that who is supposed to tune the market says that the us is a shithole but luckily all other countries are much bigger shitholes.
>>65350666how do you know it's expensive and mediocre?
>>65352183He became a billionaire because zucc bought his vr technology. You can relax now commie retard
>>65352183He got his money almost a decade ago though. It was Obama era still when he sold Oculus, and Anduril only started to vend their little sentry towers in the late 10s, before Biden.
>>65350678Anduril's entire thing is supposed to be making stuff much cheaper than bloated "legacy" (yes techbros call it like that) MIC and then they want some high hundreds of thousands bucks a piece for generic loitering munition that did poorly in Ukraine lmaoo
>>65350653It was built out of the remains of a previous project called Narsil Thunder
>>65350653Billion dollar drones aren't the meta anymore, despite the DoD pork.
>>65350817>bootleg AC/DC
>>65350653Whatever happened to the Anduril wunderwaffe that was supposed to change the course of the war in Ukraine?
>>65351214>me and my black son
>>65352861Their infrastructure is the product, the pieces and their individual success are less relevant for a company like that. I worked for a tech company that did the same thing, built some big gay do-everything application then sold the shit out of it to anyone who would bite. And to be fair, I believe they have good intentions. There are issues of interoperability and decisions trees and data sharing. There should be coherence when lives are on the line.
>>65350678>>65350678/Thread
>>65352183Retard
>all this effort to protect an apache just so an apache can do the same job as a reaper dronei love gunships but seriously we need to move on.
>>65356199>a reaper can carry a gun, 16 hellfires, and 70 rockets
>>65356224>30 million dollar drone that can fire 8 hellfires (more than enough, this isn't the fucking cold war)>31 million dollar helicopter carrying two expensive humans) that can fire 16 hellfires and a bunch of dumbfire weaponryselect the one that the US military would rather lose
>>65356234>ignore apkws>ignore gun(that can also be fitted with anti drone rounds)>ignore the fact one is significantly better at CAS>they do the same thing because I said so >muh price You are literally retarded
>>65351212>series hybrid-electric powertrainactually retarded, parallel is better, you take a lot of losses in series, more mechanically complex, yes, but the efficiency gains are worth it, plus you get additional redundancy with it
>>65356254ok can you tell me what happened to all the hinds and ka-52s?
>>65356254drones are fundamentally good because you can lose them without people dying, so they can be expended on much riskier missions.
>>65356273>>65356277Why is Poland buying more apaches?Why is the Army buying more apaches?I'm sure some stupid faggot who thinks reapers and apaches do the same thing will be able to explain to them why they should listen to him and just buy reapers instead
>>65356284>Why is the Army buying more apaches?why did the army adopt the M7?
>>65356287So they can shoot retarded faggots who think the reaper and Apache do the same thing
>>65356273I seem to recall Ka-50/52s playing a significant anti-armor role in the Ukrainian counteroffensive.Highly mobile platforms with 10-20km range AT weapons are pretty valuable
>>65356326highly mobile platforms lobbing TOW missiles at max range and hitting targets they couldn't properly ID because their thermals are temu tier
>>65352756The effort gone into aesthetics.
>>65351214Very dubious SAM evation, everything else seems fine
>>65356335aesthetics are not a big deal. That's how you sell a product
>>65357437For aircraft it unironically is due to aerodynamics having a huge effect on flight profile and range.
>>65351759>shows man who has delivered on govt contracts over and over again and singlehandedly reinvigorated american launch operations.What did he mean by this?
>>65356273Despite being pilotes by russians they were quite effective at stopping tank rushes, so you’re proving my point for me.Imagine what even better attack helicopters (non-russian) can do in the hands of actual white people.
>>65350653>AndurilNot a single working weapon.
Every Anduril thread gets a lot of seetheposting, why I wonder
>>65350653:(
>>65357767lockmart shitposting hours
>>65358051>>65350653The real question is how the Atlas robots will safely store Elon's semen until they manage to reach a female into which to inject it.
>>65357697tell me what visual features sacrificed aerodynamics and how
>>65352041>errrybuddy gon keeel me!Paranoid delusions. Just because ya got out doesn't mean you're not gonna get got.
>>65350653Does it actually do anything different to a MQ-8 or a 170? Or is it more better because AI / drone
>>65351610Considering they offer more range and speed over conventional rotory designs, I don't see why you wouldn't pick tilt-rotors especially since the US is wanting both longer ranged and faster airframes for a potential conflict in the pacific
>>65360477It's a VTOL so yes it has different flight characteristics see >>65360535
>>65350817>Re:ZeroOf course he has shit taste
I'm short on patience, end it quickly.
>>65350653so we are just copying scifi movies like terminator now? zero creativity for real life designs?
>>65363727>so we are just copying scifi movies like terminator now?Because the reasonably fortunate want a robot army to go along with their doomsday bunker. It's easier to pick them up where they are with designs that they are already familiar with.
>>65363737https://youtu.be/_Wlsd9mljiU?si=ECzAX8b89MLZDqzS&t=47its so obvious he just copied the movie design
>>65361879Uh oh, this guy is a big deal.
>>65350653Anything to replace normal helicopters. Helicopters seem so vulnerable nowadays.
>>65350817Buratino-based SAMS?Anduril has a superb marketing department, but we won't really know about their quality until they start getting battle-tested.
>>65352183I've seen a lot of stupid posts on /k/ today, but this surpasses them all. Congrats, anon.
>>65361494Fuck you
>>65350817This is in my MUSIC playlist now since it’s such a fucking banger.
>>65350653I fuck with how cool it looks, but I think it's gonna be shit if it goers into production.Kinda like RAH-66 Commanche except probably worse
>>65350678Basically.Ukrainian basement tinkerers have achieved 100x more in drone warfare than an overfunded meme tech venture capitalist bullshit co.
>>65365956shits exploding all over anon. it just isn't public.>>65369384pathetic face saving cope.the US has been drone war-fighting for a generation now you are completely outclassed. Ukraine is a massive beneficiary and contributor to these projects. they receive tremendous support and technology transfers along with the bleeding edge in technologies you don't even know exist.
>>65351562To be fair, AA missiles just need a platform to lanuch. Wouldn't surprise me that we actually see the Russians actually doing it and claim its some grand new technology.
>>65351742What? H.Plasma rifle of the 80w range?
>>65352756>>65352861Tiltrotor tech is definitely increases costs by 20-60%.
>>65370387it uses electric motors to turn the props so it's probably nowhere near as maintenance intensive as Osprey. In theory it's a lot cheaper than an apache while having the same payload and 3x more range.
If the unit cost was 3 million a piece. This would be great. It it’s going to cost more than the AH-64, Be less agile than a MQ-9. And it’s supposed to sacrifice itself to protect 2 dudes and an obsolete relic from the 70s? Make a reaper that costs 10 times less and we will have a program.
>>65372137It will be a "fraction of the cost" of an apache, no hard number yet I dont think
>>65372153>fraction of the costSo, predictably 6/7 the cost of an Apache?
>>65372180
>>65350653It’s literally the Hunter Killer prototype from Terminator 3 (2003).
>>65350817We have an Is*kaifag making our weapons. We are doomed.
>>65350653The Uesian economy is presently based on two things:>Scams>GamblingThis applies from atop the presidency down to something as mundane as people's retirement funds. And unlike real estate and financial speculation—which are gambling—this is a scam.(Of course you can gamble on a scam and scam a gamble, but that's its own realm.)
