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This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...

What’s the reason to declare martial law now?
Stop migration so they stop losing the brains and people necessary to either run the army or continue the country after the war is over. Putin has not only destroyed the majority of his armed forces in this conflict, he's lost many of his best and brightest people who fled the country early on.
 
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.
If it's two identical F-35's the drone will win.

The F-35 is only limited by the human body's ability to withstand g- force, not blacking out and crashing the aircraft.
 
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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.
A drone is susceptible to electronic countermeasures (ECM). A pilot can still fly their aircraft even if they’re being successfully jammed. A drone can’t.
 
Who do you think creates the machine learning algorithms and has to address the neverending untintended consequences of said algorithms?
Not quite sure you understand the functionality of AI or machine learning if you're asking this question.
 
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.
No one is saying its over, but the height has passed and development is already focusing on unmanned aircraft.
 
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"#Ukraine: A Russian D-30 122mm howitzer position was desroyed by a Ukrainian HIMARS/M270 strike in the South, with the strike observed by a Leleka-100 UAV."

 
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Update on Kherson. And you have to love Russia's strategy of dying!

"The Russian occupation administration in #Kherson , in the south of #Ukraine , indicated that it was evacuating the city in the face of the advance of Ukrainian troops, while assuring that the Russian army would fight on place "until death" #AFP 2/5"

 
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No one is saying its over, but the height has passed and development is already focusing on unmanned aircraft.
Elon Musk literally said the time of the fighter jet is over. That's what people are responding to. I think the future will be unmanned aircraft along with a lot of unmanned fighting platforms on the ground as well. But those days aren't here yet. But starting to develop towards it while still also keeping manned aircraft as part of the essential part is definitely necessary.
 
Elon Musk literally said the time of the fighter jet is over. That's what people are responding to. I think the future will be unmanned aircraft along with a lot of unmanned fighting platforms on the ground as well. But those days aren't here yet. But starting to develop towards it while still also keeping manned aircraft as part of the essential part is definitely necessary.
Maybe Elon knows we’re actually controlling these things, and his interviewer in the clip just hasn’t been briefed yet:



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Elon Musk literally said the time of the fighter jet is over. That's what people are responding to. I think the future will be unmanned aircraft along with a lot of unmanned fighting platforms on the ground as well. But those days aren't here yet. But starting to develop towards it while still also keeping manned aircraft as part of the essential part is definitely necessary.
Read/listen to the entire clip
 
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