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| | | | | Switchblade drones can fly like a small uncrewed aircraft, but have an explosive charge on board that can take out a target. | |
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| | | | | You can read the details of Operation Spiderweb elsewhere. What interests me are the implications for future warfare: If the Ukrainians could sneak drones so close to major air bases in a police state such as Russia, what is to prevent the Chinese from doing the same with U.S. air bases? Or the Pakistanis with Indian air bases? Or the North Koreans with South Korean air bases? Militaries that thought they had secured their air bases with electrified fences and guard posts will now have to reckon with the threat from the skies posed by cheap, ubiquitous drones that can be easily modified for military use. This will necessitate a massive investment in counter-drone systems. Money spent on conventional manned weapons systems increasingly looks to be as wasted a... | |
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| | | | | Sue Halpern on Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks's Replicator initiative-an effort to add cheap, artificially intelligent weapons to the U.S. arsenal. | |
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