When is drone warfare going to come into the forefront of military tactics?
>strap a Davy Crockett to a drone
>fly it out in the stratosphere
>kamikaze it into the capital of some nation you want to destroy
>deny all involvement
What's stopping anyone from doing this? It doesn't even have to be a tactical nuke, it could be an incendiary or chemical payload, just make sure the drone self-destructs upon delivery.
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And you couldn't do that. Even China could track that.
What is the X-37b for $400, Alex?
>drone with a bomb on it
Like... a missile?
Can they though? I don't believe tracking technology is that advanced that it can detect every small object flying 20 miles in the air, everywhere around the globe. At best, they can detect it when it enters their own airspace, but that still won't tell them where it was launched from
Even China can track that too. You can't have a global strike weapon that is untraceable. And I think that is for fucking with satellites, but who really knows.
The miracle of databases. No, not in real time, but basically all advanced powers can figure it out given time.
You mean like a ICBM?
Not easily, it is capable of changing course repeatedly. This makes finding it difficult.
Well a missile generally has limited capabilities to change its trajectory and fly evasively. A drone could be directed to fly over the north pole, say, then drop down from a direction that is not monitored so heavily. It could also be controlled to outmaneuver an enemy aircraft trying to bring it down
To shoot it down, definitely. To figure out, given time, where a bomb came from, no. They could.
>china fell for the joined wing meme
Chinese stealth is impressive from the front which is the most important, but they are seriously still behind where Lockheed, Northrop, and Boeing were 25 years ago.
The closest thing he is really talking about was Project Pluto: en.wikipedia.org
>After delivering all its warheads, the missile could then spend weeks flying over populated areas at low altitudes, causing tremendous ground damage with its shock wave. When it finally lost enough power to fly, and crash-landed, the engine would have a good chance of spewing deadly radiation for months to come.
In practice though, we are already steadily moving towards missiles and UAV's as being our front line and overwatch vehicles, as well as swarm vehicles.
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Imagine each one is filled with plastic explosive and is meant to just watch over an area. Now, scale this up and enslave several super-sonic UAV's to a single manned fighter jet so that they work in tandem.
This is not farfetched. Take a look at what the AI called ALPHA was capable of doing last year. This tech will only continue to advance and proliferate, given the low cost and mass scalability.
Absolutely, that cannot be doubted, but we're talking about a first-strike scenario, no?
I didn't think so. I have been arguing against the OP's statement about "deny all involvement".
You are definitely right about the ability to hit even "highly defended" targets. The US can and China can't right now.
We can't lob a bomb in the middle of a Chinese city and say "what??? we didn't do that!"
Give it 5 years.
Once they install the first gen combat approved rail guns aboard the DG-1000, you really could do this. Since the thing wouldn't show up on radar in any meaningful way. Downside would be trying to prove that the elevated levels of tungsten discovered at the area aren't from a rod, and are (((merely coincidence))).
This. It's all been done before but you retards think it's something new and groundbreaking because you fall for trendy buzzwords and memes.
Some of the worst "journalists" are tech journalists who write about military stuff. Fucking horrible.
The really sad thing is that you could quite literally just read their pressers and find out everything you need to know before writing up your article. The laziness is just stupefying.
I'm surprised they haven't started using have autonomous miniature quadcopters that fly into the crack of your open window, into your bedroom, and explode next to your head yet.
It is more the creating of click bait for me. They literally spend hours everyday thinking how to spin things to generate revenue for rags like popularmechanics. The end result is shit.
Imagine thousands of those but smaller (5cm, perhaps with a tiny explosive) flying in a grid formation. You could use that as a flying shield against jet aircrafts, one sucked into the engine and it's taken out.
woah
dude
>what is tomahawk missile?
DING DING DING
Yes they have, I literally linked a video in this very thread:
Like 10 years ago?