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Those with power pretending to be aggrieved victims standing up for all that is right with the world? Where have I seen that before?
This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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Here's what he said in 2020. It's pretty clear he's trying to make a case about the future.
“The fighter jet era has passed,” Musk said to U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. John Thompson at the Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando. “Drone warfare is where the future will be. It’s not that I want the future to be – it’s just, this is what the future will be,” he added.
“The Joint Strike Fighter, there should be a competitor ... that’s a controversial subject but I don’t think it’s good to have one provider,” Musk said. He later elaborated on Twitter that the F-35 competitor should be a drone.
“The competitor should be a drone fighter plane that’s remote-controlled by a human, but with its maneuvers augmented by autonomy. The F-35 would have no chance against it,” he wrote.
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Let him make it and then put it up against a manned F-35. I'm sure there is a pilot willing to take that challenge on. My money is on the F-35 absolutely obliterating the drone.
Only way it happens is when long time from now we can construct large aircraft capable of ridiculous speeds and maneuverability with G forces that no human could operate at. We a long way away from that tech.
He couldn't even build a minisub to rescue the soccer team and now he's building autonomous death fighters.
Exactly. Augmented with AI and possibly controlled like a video game. I doubt we're far from that at all.
Depends if the drone is stealth or not. If it's stealth, the two planes just fly around unable to find each other until they run out of gas. I suppose one of them might get lucky and just happen to spot the other. I guess it would be advantage: drone there.
Depends how stealthy the drone is. I don’t believe the f35 was designed for dogfighting as was displayed in its trials versus the adapt f16. The F35 was designed for stealthy BVR air combat and CAS.
Savvy that he mentions a potential recession as an excuse to be a moral coward. He's going to have to sell out to the nuts to be Speaker, and he's clearly dipping his toe into the water to get acclimated.
Pssst, you are arguing with a retread handle. He's got all day to go back and forth, and play semantics.
You spelled “Ferentz” wrong
Maybe it is my concussion, not feeling well or what... I don't understand this.
Marital law in Ukraine? Is closing the border a bigger problem for those trying to get in or get out to avoid conscription?
I can't tell if blowing the dam is another bluff or not.
It takes a special sort of arrogance to think humans can outperform machine learning and performance.
Is that like Ludicrous Speed?
What’s the reason to declare martial law now?
I hope it means that they fear they are losing control of the country. Probably too optimistic, I know.
I presume this is primarily intended for the annexed ukranian territories? Maybe either to keep them from crossing to Ukrainian territory or to abduct civilians and take them deep into Russia so there aren't any Ukrainians left in the territory to give a damn about it?
Idk, I'm not a war strategist, but I'm assuming they're not talking about martial law for the average Russian in the middle of Russia. That would really hurt public sentiment within russia.
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It’s what happens after i eat Pizza Hut.
They didn't attack infrastructure early on because the war was going to over in 7-10 days. Why blow up everything only to have to rebuild it once you take control of the country.
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Why aren’t we all being driven around in self-driving cars then?
it will happen someday. That day is not now.
U.S. RC-135's are based at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, NE.
Ukraine pilots probably have never seen an F-16 let alone know how to fly one. They need MIG-29 or SU-27's.
From October 12th
Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jet crashed after being scrambled to intercept Russia’s Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones in the Vinnytsia region on 12 October. Ukrainian officials claim that a Ukrainian MiG-29 Fulcrum pilot shot down five Shahed-136s and two cruise missiles of undisclosed type before being forced to eject from his fighter.
“According to one version of the investigation, near the Turbov, during the destruction of another object, the wreckage of a downed enemy drone caught the cockpit of a Ukrainian aircraft,” the State Bureau said in a release on Friday.
Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jet crashed after being scrambled to intercept Russia’s Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones in the Vinnytsia region on 12 October. Ukrainian officials claim that a Ukrainian MiG-29 Fulcrum pilot shot down five Shahed-136s and two cruise missiles of undisclosed type before being forced to eject from his fighter.
“According to one version of the investigation, near the Turbov, during the destruction of another object, the wreckage of a downed enemy drone caught the cockpit of a Ukrainian aircraft,” the State Bureau said in a release on Friday.
It has nothing to do with machine learning. It has everything to do with current capabilities of drones. If we develop drones the size of combat aircraft then maybe some day people can fly them remotely as we do current drones. Eventually they may be as efficient as manned aircraft, but the technology isn't there yet which means fighter aircraft isn't over yet. The design of what they do has changed however. Dogfighting isn't a big priority any longer. That seems to be far less important than bombing runs, protecting assets on the ground, etc... Those can't be done by drones yet.
I'm also not certain I'm even close to being ready to trusting an AI to choose who gets to live or die though.
