Posted on 01/03/2023 2:14:38 PM PST by Mariner
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drone advances in Ukraine have accelerated a long-anticipated technology trend that could soon bring the world's first fully autonomous fighting robots to the battlefield, inaugurating a new age of warfare.
The longer the war lasts, the more likely it becomes that drones will be used to identify, select and attack targets without help from humans, according to military analysts, combatants and artificial intelligence researchers.
That would mark a revolution in military technology as profound as the introduction of the machine gun. Ukraine already has semi-autonomous attack drones and counter-drone weapons endowed with AI. Russia also claims to possess AI weaponry, though the claims are unproven. But there are no confirmed instances of a nation putting into combat robots that have killed entirely on their own.
Experts say it may be only a matter of time before either Russia or Ukraine, or both, deploy them.
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How long before we see incendiary drones attack troop concentrations?
The only effective counter is defensive drones of similar cost. But we KNOW it's not NASAMS ($350k per shot cheapest) or Patriots ($4mil per shot).
Could? It’s here…
Long term science fiction scenarios have been like this.
Libertarian military SF author Jerry Pournelle had 10 volumes in his series of various authors’ new SF war stories. Peace didn’t break out for a long time and the books kept selling.
If you think about it, though, Side A sends drones, unmanned submarines and killer robots. Side B sends exact items to fight Side A, with their egotistical idea that their versions are better than the other guys’.
Then living humans aren’t killed until one side overwhelms the other. With the elites living in Dr.Strangelove bunkers.
Robocop IS here.
A laboratory for the merchants of death.
“The only effective counter is defensive drones of similar cost.”
No, not the only counter. We could launch a Butlerian Jihad against the Thinking Machines.
Will they bang the Mexican maid like Arnold Swartzenstupid
I don’t know but I was thinking something a bit cheaper than that. Line up a few platoons along the front after a night of heavy ingestion of bean burritos, turn around, drop ya drawers, and let er rip. If timed just right, might just get a standing wave going. That ought to do some damage right there.
Experts say it may be only a matter of time before either Russia or Ukraine, or both, deploy them.
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Will not be Russia because all of their modern tech depends on Western tech now embargoed.
Then we move underground and live like trolls.
The good countermeasure is a scrambler drone that blocks all commo of the attacking drones, and is somehow “immune” to the scrambler signal. The scrambler drone can be a single drone inserted into the attacking swarm.
bkmk
And likely, Robocop is bent.
Basically you just reinvented the history of early military aviation.
Pilot’s observing, to pilots with pistols shooting at pilots observing, to pilots throwing hand grenades out the cockpit, to mounting machine guns to the wings or nose, to placing bombs under wing to actual interior bomb loads with bomb bay doors, etc., etc.
Eventually 6th Generation Stealth drones and bombers, drones with nukes....
I’ve been saying for years that weaponized robots are coming and will be more deadly and destructive than nuclear weapons. We live in dangerous times.
“and will be more deadly and destructive than nuclear weapons”
Not likely.
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