This seems not far away at all...
https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2017/11/14/this-fictional-video-about-ai-powered-weapons-makes-the-terminator-look-like-a-disney-film
QuoteThe future shown in the video doesn't look very far off, which is why it's so incredibly scary. It could be next Tuesday
I'll just drop this here...
http://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-test-mini-drone-swarm-2017-1
Wonder if a mirror would bugger up their AI.
I was thinking recently the police will probably get in on the drone act. There's been kids in the area causing a few disturbances, mainly in the nearby forest... lighting fires etc. The police are too slow to detect the crimes, so why not fly a drone up.
The video was made to be a warning probably with the goal of international treaty to prevent autonomous weapons. I think this is a worthy idea, but a bigger problem is that the technology is already at the consumer level.
https://github.com/intel-aero/meta-intel-aero/wiki/04-Autonomous-drone-programming-in-Python
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhkGQvb_R8Y
I hadn't considered that drones could make nuclear weapons mostly obsolete... wow.
QuoteIn this, the third year of conflict in eastern Ukraine, Aleksandr's drones have become increasingly visible in the combat zone.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/high-street-uavs-are-being-used-to-fight-the-war-in-ukraine
I can't find it now but approx 18 months ago there was an article about UK army using swarm-tech drones on a practice maneuver. They had the swarm do collective reconnaissance on a village. Anyway, swarm-tech is pretty mature now. It's been 5
+ years or so -a lifetime in drone years- since MIT, etc. wow-ed us with a couple of drones playing ping pong.
DARPA hopes to swarm drones out of C-130s in 2019 test
https://www.navytimes.com/newsletters/daily-news-roundup/2017/12/18/darpa-hopes-to-swarm-drones-out-of-c-130s-in-2019-test/
>DARPA hopes to swarm drones out of C-130s in 2019 test
Kinda funny: my Dad flew C-130s. Talk about mixing old tech with the new.
>C-130
STILL very much the go-to workhorse plane for the Coast Guard. I think the new class of c130s is the 130-J or somesuch. My town is the mother base for them on the east coast. I think they beefed up the already beefy frame and engines. My Coastie aviation friends tell me that the wing infrastructure on these is incredible to behold.
The drone wars have begun.
"A swarm of armed drones attacked a Russian military base in Syria"
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/11/swarm-of-armed-diy-drones-attacks-russian-military-base-in-syria.html
Well that was interesting til I saw the pic of one of the drones, which looks close to a fly by wire RC plane circa 1965.
Definitely looks like the middle's east's version of an IED from the air. Almost makes me wonder if someone barely noticed these.
It's definitely a strategy with low personal risk and low barriers to entry.
> IED from the air
US Army General: Small Drones Biggest Threat Since IEDs
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2021/02/10/small-drones-threat-us-general/
Army To Test Its Biggest Interactive Drone Swarm Ever Over Utah
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/army-to-test-its-biggest-interactive-drone-swarm-ever-over-utah
Looking at the footage in Ukraine it is so obvious that AI driven drones are going to be quite a force in the near future.
Surface naval ships are now beyond obsolete.
>Surface naval ships are now beyond obsolete.
US Airforce & US Navy test the co-developed Quicksink ship sinking bomb in the Gulf of Mexico. Much more cost effective than a torpedo or cruise missile.
https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/uhkf58/us_airforce_us_navy_test_the_codeveloped/
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-air-forces-new-ship-killing-smart-bomb-has-sunk-its-first-vessel
QuoteNow, the U.S. Air Force is exploring ways it might be able to achieve the same kind of anti-ship lethality with air-launched weapons, including modified 2,000-pound class Joint Direct Attack Munition precision-guided bombs.