assuming they can keep the Iranians from hacking them..
With democrats in charge of the military this thing won’t work.
Just make it a VR game (a la Ender’s War) and we could not be defeated.
Wonder if the Air Force talks to the Navy. If they did then whoever is rational in the Navy would realize that the era of surface combatants is over. Also if the truth be told so are most armored vehicles.
However given the nature of the politically correct, over decorated , never saw real combat, pole climbing hidebound generals and battleship admirals that run the Pentagon and currently command, many brave young Americans will have to die and suffer for the lack of leadership.
Wasn’t it Obama who let Iran take one of our drones?
Although satellites could provide some of this functionality, in war games, satellites are the first to go.....
The RQ-180 isn’t static and is survivable. The Pentagon is preparing for a complete loss of military satellite capability yet maintain data coordination between aerial assets........
Now put a high powered laser on it.
$190 Trillion in unpayable debt & a collapsing society embracing insanity. Why does any drone design matter?
This writer has diarrhea of the keyboard. I could have written this article with half of the space. He was way too repetitive.
Flying wing + laminar flow. This is where the technology continues to be classified, more than 60 years after introduction.
Based on the German Kugelblitz platform the allies recovered as war spoils.
We are in a new nukular arms race, only this time it’s not about splitting the atom, it’s about autonomous robots. And this time it’s not about secret technology, it’s about stuff you could buy (the “ghetto” version of) off the shelf at Radio Shack (if Radio Shack were still in business).
This stuff takes much less time and money to develop than the atom bombs did. And the technology and basic components are available to the entire world via the Internet. So the less affluent nations of the world get to play, too. And it isn’t just nation states, any group (or individual) with sufficient intellectual and financial assets can play, and even those entry requirements aren’t very steep.
So the proliferation of these weapons is going to be vastly more widespread, and potentially every bit as destructive as nukes, just without the radioactive fallout. And the only way to stay ahead in this contest is to continue developing, both weapons systems and countermeasures, like your life depended on it.
Because it does.
Tyler must mean “formerly secretive”...