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@prezmrmthegreatiinnovative32353 ай бұрын
Id Like to see a vid bout this: NATO and EU should Send more Their old and new ww1 interwar ww2 COLD WAR etc equipment and tech to ukraine aswell As thousands to millions of volunteers
@randyross56303 ай бұрын
Good, it's Time to Stock Up at Scale, and any Programming that Still Needs to be Done to be Perfect can be Finished Later...
@eddieforrest9733 ай бұрын
😅😅😅😮😮 6:19 6:19 😮 6:21 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
@pike1003 ай бұрын
@@prezmrmthegreatiinnovative3235Cold War Era equipment should be the oldest vintage of weapons that we should consider sending to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
@VndNvwYvvSvv3 ай бұрын
Whoa whoa whoa.... Why are you so certain it's GA and Anduril competing?
@zach112413 ай бұрын
Maverick: It’s not the plane it’s the pilot Drone: What pilot? Wanda: Hey! That’s my line!
@Valorius3 ай бұрын
Skynet is pleased.
@whoareyouyouareclearlylost3233 ай бұрын
Indeed... Give it some time tho it's still in its infant stage...
@thatguy44133 ай бұрын
We did it y'all, Ace Combat time!
@chaosco65353 ай бұрын
now we just wait until USAF unveil their Arsenal Bird
@NerffffF3 ай бұрын
So who's the belkan?
@viper-Down3 ай бұрын
Yessss siiirrr 😂 Ace Combat it is 😂
@lucasokeefe79353 ай бұрын
Russia these days. They're the ones always going on about nukes. The Chinese are the Yuktobanians before Harling and Nikanor had their kiss and make up moment
@CC-ns2ds3 ай бұрын
It makes sense the US government wants to give a company like Anduril a go. All the top 5 companies are known for overcharging the military for parts and they’re incentivised for delays and other things happening that increase their reasons to increase cost. A small company will just be happy to get their foot in the door as a military contractor and will keep their prices very low for repeat contracts.
@ivan2008043 ай бұрын
Corruption in the US MIC is good for Russia and China.
@Aptonoth3 ай бұрын
I also think they are very suspicious of he big 5 for being compromised by chinese, russian, and iranian spy agencies. They don't want a repeat of the F35 leak.
@MrJdsenior3 ай бұрын
I was a designer on a DARPA driven project that explored exactly that problem. The attempt was to design the sensor suite and control for a FULLY autonomous cruise missile. It's requirement was to locate targets, using smart search algorithms that concentrated on tree lines, etc. It was to find, classify, map, and select targets to dispense munitions onto, and return to an area where it could be recovered, downloaded, and reused, at least the sensors and computer electronics. The requirement on false foe was very high, needless to say, and I mean higher than manned fighters achieve, so the classification had to be VERY nearly flawless. Friendly fire is not a good thing, especially from a silicon driven selector. This was two and a half decades ago, and the hardware we had then, though designed from the IC chip design level up, was a joke compared to today's stuff. We didn't do that badly, and I'm surprised that level hasn't been reached by now. I know there is a lot of trepidation from letting weapons loose that are TOO smart, and I agree, but you don't need a silicon brain to perform that function, not remotely, any more than you do to drive a car or make medical diagnoses. I would be interested to see the true level of autonomy of these vehicles, and that will change over time, obviously, but I no longer work in the industry, and as such am totally out of that loop.
@rasselbidouАй бұрын
when you started describing i the project i was wondering how you got away with sharing information about new darpa projects... until i read "two ans a half decades ago" lol. fuck the mic tho
@tjpatton85623 ай бұрын
I hope this new drone program from General Atomics doesnt delay the production of Liberty Prime or Mr. Handy.
@Rays3263 ай бұрын
2 drones for radar and detection. 2 missile trucks. 2 countermeasure drones. 1 pilot capable of controlling airspace like 10 pilots. Yeah its a good concept.
@dantelove46063 ай бұрын
The A.I needs to improve until it can do everything a pilot can do except make the decision for an offensive move
@robertmaybeth34343 ай бұрын
The Ukrainians are creating the future of the drones right now I think. Wars are many things, mostly bad, but they do push humans in extremis to create things out of desperation that otherwise would never see the light of day, or at least, they appear much sooner than ordinarily. The main example being, the atomic bomb. Many of the physicists on Manhattan Project said they knew the Germans must have similar projects, and might somehow beat them to a nuke, and it terrified them. So this was their incentive and their motivation to fast-track their work. Anyway, I'm certain the Ukrainians, probably with Americans right beside them, are doing and trying all sorts of things with drones that we won't know about for a long time. The "man-hacks' from Half life 2 video game are old technology now. I've seen too many of the Ukraine war videos with the drone zooming up on a random Russkie soldier then literally blowing up in his face...
@FieryWACO3 ай бұрын
They **should** be rushing drones into production. You can never have too many drones.
@dianapennepacker68543 ай бұрын
Depends on the drones. Not all should be swarm. I think it makes sense ATM to make a limited amount with technology moving so fast. I think we are seeing a Cold War like arms race where new generations will be coming out way quicker than say... F 15 to the F 22 to the NGAD. We need a stealth AWAC drones for sure. The Roadrunner seems useless to me.
@FieryWACO3 ай бұрын
@@dianapennepacker6854 Cold War arms race, limited amount of arms. Got it. Perfect example.
@dianapennepacker68543 ай бұрын
@@FieryWACO Yes as in new iterations or generations will be rapidly developed unlike when the Cold War ended. Not the best at reading comprehension are we?
@FieryWACO3 ай бұрын
@@dianapennepacker6854 It's not my reading comprehension that seems to be lacking. It's your intelligence.
@paulpowell48713 ай бұрын
I have been a Binkov fan from a few years back as we grow from Romans Versus the Marines to some of the best war content on KZbin
@cane60743 ай бұрын
What is pretty ironic is that in the fallout universe, there is an actually company called General Atomics that specializes in making robots!🤣
@geromeblara3 ай бұрын
I always thought it was a real company
@ryanpoulter62863 ай бұрын
It is
@draggador2 ай бұрын
Maybe the company in game was named after the company in reality. Maybe the other way round. Depends on which one is older.
@cane60742 ай бұрын
@@draggador It was founded in the 1950's, ironically.
@lawtonsegler19233 ай бұрын
Excellent presentation!
@ycplum70623 ай бұрын
Personally, I think we need some two-seater F-35s. The rear seater can operate the CCAs and/or manage the data generated by the CCA, to include EW and ECW. That or allow one F-35 to manage more CCAs. I am a firm believer in letting pilots focus on piloting, weapons deployments, and evasion.
@wastool3 ай бұрын
Non-stealthy CCAs may actually be an advantage. It means Ideally the mothership won't get targeted.
@cyberfunk37933 ай бұрын
That was what I thinking as well. If they go first as the tip of the spear, with enough distance to the mothership, then the possible enemy needs to engage the drones first or be destroyed by the drones before the mothership is even in range of being spotted and targeted.
@joelrunyan16082 ай бұрын
Might wanna bring all the old fighters outta retirement.. can you imagine sending in a drone f4 with harm missiles. Or a drone F111
@noahway132 ай бұрын
The USAF has F-16s that they have turned into drones. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpPWqpl_ibeYqbc
@28ebdh3udnav2 ай бұрын
Would be badass but the cost of bringing it back to service would equal to 2 or 3 drones so.... You're better off just getting the drones plus, stealth
@patthonsirilim57392 ай бұрын
they already they use old f4 f16 and crusader as target practice and testing for new missles if push come to shove the us could easily field 500 decoy drone plane to saturate enemy anti air imagine having hundreds of f4/f16/f5 planes firing old stock of agm harm missles at enemy anti air battary a nightmare situation where it not only have to stop the inomcing anti radiation radar but also the vast fleet of enemy planes now we can talk about the reliability of using out to date missle but thats not the point the point is the missle will at least fire and enemy cant be sure of how reliable or effective it will be so they will have to intercept with there precious and finite air defense missles and will need to be able to have enough left over to take down enemy planes i dont care how capable s300/400/500 is you can only shot 1 target down per missle so imagine 100 drone plane firing 4 agm harm each thats 400 missle thats 500 targets you have to acount for and the plane dosent give a fuck if its shot down or not it will carry its order and luanch regardless of weather its friends are being shot down or not all cordinated by stealthy 5gen aircraft at the back and awacs.
@user-sk3pi1me2f2 ай бұрын
From what I've seen most CCAs will have stealth features, the amount will vary. I expect we'll see some full stealth, some configured for Wild Weasel tactics, some as decoys, etc.
@luigifranceschi23503 ай бұрын
I have a third proposal. By the time the 6th gen planes will be in the skies 4th gen fighters will be technologically obsolete, at least against major opponents. But they’ll probably still be flyable, and so, expendable, unlike human pilots. They have already fly by wire. So why not simply convert them in drones? No need for training, so they can stay on the ground until really needed, so minimal maintenance, huge payloads compared to these drones, supersonic, plus they have already onboard most of the sensors required. All already paid for and in huge numbers. They aren’t stealthy, just like these drones, but that also means that they would probably take the hit to save the mother plane. If AI can be made to fly these drones, it can also fly an F16. And by stripping all the needs for a human pilot also means quite a bit more payload.
@mrspeigle13 ай бұрын
Problem: the g4 fighters have their own logistical footprint wich will likely be much higher than the CCA drones
@cmanlovespancakes3 ай бұрын
The USAF are already converts older F16s and F15s to drones for target practice.
@josephahner30313 ай бұрын
AI is already flying F-16s. The Secretary of the Air Force recently rode in an AI piloted F-16 as it flew against a seasoned human F-16 pilot in a mock dogfight.
@luigifranceschi23503 ай бұрын
@@josephahner3031 so maybe they already have the drones to be associated with F35. And the program being developed can be brought into these old planes.
@luigifranceschi23503 ай бұрын
@@cmanlovespancakes well, from target practice to “loyal wingman” is quite a step.
@waynehoskyns27323 ай бұрын
The MQ-28 Ghost Bat aircraft also known as the Loyal Wingman, is what you were seeing with the red nose towards the end of the video, Australian made.
@sawney_bean3 ай бұрын
No more top gun
@SlapStyleAnims3 ай бұрын
:(
@levipierson49463 ай бұрын
The opposite. They will still need real fighter pilots. In such threat environment means they will need more training which means higher top gun!!!! That is if congress and navy brass can put two and two together
@Howardlifts3 ай бұрын
Not with DEI pilots lol
@Paulftate3 ай бұрын
@@Howardliftswhat a joke
@Howardlifts3 ай бұрын
@@Paulftate truth though, look at what's happening now with commercial flying lmao, we wuz pilots n shiatt
@corvanphoenix3 ай бұрын
I can't help but think the B-21 will use these too.
@bholdr----0Ай бұрын
The Australian Ghostbat CCA/drone platform is a low-cost/end option worth consideration.
@emmanueldorazio34393 ай бұрын
Sooo Anduril (Aargon's sword) was founded with the help of the company Palantir (seeing stones). Just calling it now, wouldn't be surprised if the founders of Palantir help start up another LoTR named defence company, perhaps Glamdring (Gandalf's sword)?
@manyinterests1003 ай бұрын
How 'bout Elendil or Orc-Slayer.
@amitkumarsur58993 ай бұрын
Actually loyal wingman concept is popular in all advance country not only US but her advisory and partner nation working on same like Indian CATSA programs but as usual US leads the race.
@isaacbrown45063 ай бұрын
I think maybe you should look a bit further into the F-16 Venom program. They seem to be a lot more confident about what the AI can do than what was stated here.
@erltyriss68203 ай бұрын
I'm wondering if anyone is considering mid air refueling for some of these drone types. The Pacific is a very large theater, and mission deployment range is going to be critical.
@The818carlos3 ай бұрын
Honestly a pretty good idea. Air tankers will likely be China's #1 target in the air and the main goal of their stealth fighters. Having a relatively cheap and unmanned fuel tanker could not only save lives, but allow for a higher degree of risk taking since if it's just drone refueling drone, there is much less of a risk than with their manned counterparts.
@InHellBaby13 ай бұрын
There is already an autonomous refueling drone and yes, it’s being done.
@aerozppln3 ай бұрын
The mq-25 is supposed to specialize in that
@sangmoon24643 ай бұрын
What they need is for the B-21 to be a carrier for thousands of smaller drones it can deploy and rotate constantly. It would have a control center that can control all the drones and compile all the surveillance into useful information for ground forces, planes, ships and armed drones.
@ContemporaryCompendium3 ай бұрын
Anduril?? Someone's a fan of LotR 😁
@nikitatarsov51723 ай бұрын
Perfect example for a childish sense of humor like ... oh, wait, who are the competitors? Oh dammit. I can almost feel the Elmo in the room^^
@deanhough89933 ай бұрын
Wow, this was awesome. Totally awesome. Outstating summary of NGAD and the dynamics surrounding it.
@Baloo5553 ай бұрын
There is an Arthur C. Clark story about a space war where one side puts all its resources into developing expensive super advanced wonder weapons and the enemy focuses on mass producing cheap "good enough" weapons. You already know who won.
@cynthiaherbst39093 ай бұрын
That story is also a work of fiction. Real warfare has a tendency very different from simplicity and numbers and those outcomes are tangible.
@IFRYRCE3 ай бұрын
You could make an argument that is also what happened to Germany in WW2.
@dominuslogik4843 ай бұрын
@@IFRYRCE difference is that germany had the entire world bearing down on them at that time, Russia won its battles at an insane price they couldn't have kept it up much longer than they did meanwhile the US produced some of the most technologically advanced equipment of the era and by comparison suffered few losses. reminder that having a gyro stabelizer on a cannon for a tank in the 1940s 20 years before they were common puts the US ahead of everyone else.
@Baloo5553 ай бұрын
@@cynthiaherbst3909 If I recall correctly the foreword mentioned that it was inspired by conversations he had with a mid-century German military officer.
@cynthiaherbst39093 ай бұрын
@@Baloo555 I wouldn't be surprised. Many surviving German officers were...unwilling let's say, to admit there was more to their defeat than just sheer allied numbers given the rather frequent, notable, and catastrophic tactical and strategic failures. Of course they knew it was the only way to then get advisory positions to NATO rather than have to answer for some unsavory and demonitizing activities.
@inspectormills32903 ай бұрын
The comments are always entertaining on these videos
@HyzersGR3 ай бұрын
Usually full of trolls and Putin/CCP bots
@nikitatarsov51723 ай бұрын
@@HyzersGR I add this coment to the entertaining show of total weirdness. Thanx for the donation.
@pike1003 ай бұрын
@@nikitatarsov5172Speaking of trolls and bots, look who's here! 😉
@Chris_at_Home3 ай бұрын
At least they don’t have to train a pilot to fly them. If this thing has a higher G rating than a man can stand it could be a good wingman.
@fedorbutochnikow53123 ай бұрын
It all boils down to cost of production it seems like, and not so much to latest tech and stealth. Wars of attrition count on economies of scale.
@evanfinch49873 ай бұрын
pasta boils
@saadologue3 ай бұрын
Takes engineering to achieve lofty goals.
@Overneed-Belkan-Witch3 ай бұрын
Now we need Arsenal Bird
@austinhicks74053 ай бұрын
Pretty much the new F15s
@Miamcoline3 ай бұрын
It seems obvious that they should always go for cheap, easy to produce, easy maintenance weapon systems, possibly single use, expendable or modular designs. The opposite designs are nearly always obsolete in actual war.
@pike1003 ай бұрын
I think that single-use and/or expendable designs for Loyal Wingman drones would be a mistake.
@EtheomaАй бұрын
Like it makes complete sense to bring the drone fighter up in the scedule as it can be completed cheaper and faster than the fighter and should be able to work with F-35s. I called this years bad. although at 20 - 30 million a shot it's a bit expensive atm hopefully unit cost will crash because right now you could build and F35 for the cost of 3 - 4 of them, what you really want is an order of magnitude difference, so ~10 million, meaning like there only an order of magnitude more expensive than a missile so they can be thought of as semi disposable.
@TravisBerthelot3 ай бұрын
I love how you say NGAD as NGOD. Very funny.
@fixpontt3 ай бұрын
pronunciation of english vowels are often indistinguishable for non native speakers
@RoddHardingАй бұрын
The Wingman drones can block incoming missiles to save the main fighter plane, if commanded
@ArizonaAstraLLC15 күн бұрын
I don't think so. This isn't the 1990s movie Air Force One when a fighter sized aircraft can maneuver in front of an AAM, even with the additional maneuverability and smaller size that the CCAs would have. Air-to-air missiles in post-burn (so literally any conceivable opfor BVR AAM from the R-37M, R-77-1, PL-17, SD-10/PL-12, or PL-15) are incredibly difficult to detect; you will notice that on the F-15 EX, the USAF decided to omit the UV-based Common Missile Warning System that the highly advanced Qatari, Saudi, and Singaporean export F-15's have. The CCA's would be better suited to having a dedicated self-defense wingman with electronic warfare to counter BVR air-to-air missiles and DRCM for IR-guided shorter ranged missiles. Yes, IR-guided air-to-air missiles have burning rocket motors throughout the entirety of their short flight until they hit their target (or miss), but the time frame between launch and impact of, say 4-5 seconds could not sufficiently provide time and a predictable intercept for a turbofan powered aircraft to intercept. Now, an escorting CCA identifying the burning motor on an incoming hostile PL-10 or R-74 and attempting to dazzle its seeker head with a laser - yeah, okay, I can see that. The other CCA's would be shooting the hostile aircraft while that happens, theoretically.
@Clinicallyconfused93 ай бұрын
Last June I put the greater part of a thousand bucks into Boeing Stock, telling Myself “They are powerhouses in both the military and civilian aviation industries, if one falls through they’ll still be on top.” I also bought 300 bucks into Raytheon, which promptly had a deal fall through with its P&W engines being shipped to Airbus.
@DefaultProphet3 ай бұрын
Lockheed don’t miss
@johngodden43633 ай бұрын
The big question not fielded here is what kind of drone technology China is developing!? Does anyone seriously think the Chinese are sitting on their hands in this respect?
@ネイトさん-g7o2 ай бұрын
China is undoubtedly working on this technology but it really doesn’t fit into their playbook the same way it does to the Americans. China knows their air force is inferior which is why they’ve focused so much on rocket technology, as discussed in the video. The whole reason why the US is moving to many cheap platforms instead of concentrating on few expensive fighters is because of Chinas defensive playbook. The real question isn’t if China is going to copy our offense and develop this technology, but what their new defense is going to be.
@dansands81402 ай бұрын
China still can't build a commercial airliner to compete with Boeing and Airbus. They're not sitting on their hands, but they're stuck in the 1980s.
@CC-ns2ds3 ай бұрын
I can’t wait for the US to declassify the programme so we can see what aircraft had the potential to become the NGAD. Lockheed probably won but I always love to see the competition.
@lelkek1303 ай бұрын
Damn I didn’t know the future would be Gradius
@karel31833 ай бұрын
Behold! The US DoD finally admits that cheaper is better. Well, better late than never.
@amigatommy73 ай бұрын
The F16 has a pilotless version in testing. Lots of F16s out there.
@danpatterson80093 ай бұрын
The services have a difficult task: figuring out what they want. Bringing a small, young company into the competition might have the aim of developing an acquisition process that responds to changes quickly. The "primes" are good at what they do but large size and past success tend to make organizations less flexible.
@paulpowell48713 ай бұрын
sort of the modern version of a million Arrows in the sky
@TroyRubert3 ай бұрын
Palmer Lucky has such a crazy story arc.
@ozjohnno3 ай бұрын
ustralia is helping out with its own drone, the MQ-28 ghost bat. The ghost bat is an australian bat that hunts at night in packs.... pretty cool name huh
@nedkelly96883 ай бұрын
Ghost bat hunts it's prey in packs using their sensors ability and what Australia Ghost bat drone does. I would say USA studied our AI and other good tech in our Ghost bat drone and then kicked it to the curb. America steals a lot of tech then claim is theirs. We also helped USA develop their hypersonic missiles. Australia also has a scramjet powered hypersonic drone and Australia has world fastest scramjet at mach 12...
@pike1003 ай бұрын
@@nedkelly9688Your jingoistic xenophobia has reached new heights. That is a shame since Australia and America are strong allies. 🇦🇺 🇺🇸
@DefaultProphet3 ай бұрын
Topgun 3 but Goose’s ghost takes over a local wingman fighter
@jairo87463 ай бұрын
One of the reasons the F35 is not as fast as the other fighter jets was fuel economy, the estimation that it has shorter range than the famous fuel hog of the F16 is just silly.
@dominikliberda40173 ай бұрын
Don't forget that an F35 is a lot heavier, and has an internal weapons bay.
@davewebster51203 ай бұрын
this is good intel. thanks!
@baggyobeast3 ай бұрын
So we're doing the terminator 2 story line of the quest yet warning about being aware of the danger of AI... Super
@JoseTorres-ry9qe3 ай бұрын
Remember when youd play top down video games and some powerups would feature little wingmen? Also, the movie STEALTH
@davout57753 ай бұрын
The US is rushing everything it seems. They are getting ready for something big. Automation and AI are a big thing and the Americans are clearly pushing that technology everywhere. They are partners in Nvidia's next generation AI accelerators, based on their all-new Blackwell architecture. Nvidia talked a lot about cloud-based AI infrastructure where you can have access to all the software and hardware needed to train a model. They even talked about AI-powered robots and humanoids. The US just materialized an AI-driven jet in the real world as well. It is very clear where the US military is heading. Swarm of small drones, loyal wingmen, robots and probably even humanoid robots to replace the human soldiers. The US also have problems finding people to fill the ever-expanding list of requirements from the soldiers in order to meet the demands of the future.
@m.a39143 ай бұрын
Yup, AI is definitely the way to go. The scalability is endless. Create 1 capable model and you can have an endless army of robots on the battlefield, all equally trained and capable.
@mastathrash56093 ай бұрын
@m.a3914 I do think it should be regulated if possible because it is kind of a slippery slope.... then again treaties only mean shit when people abide by them , war is never fair and if we got it you bet that other folks are right behind. As far as the Staffing problem goes, if it's automated automated you could have a single operator in control of a squad. Scary shit though. I feel like Militarys that don't have terminators would think twice before sending their actual people to be dismembered by machines. And then of course we'll lose control of it somehow and that's how you get Arnold Schwarzenegger showing up asking for your clothes your boots and your motorcycle
@m.a39143 ай бұрын
@@mastathrash5609 I fear that governments might be more accepting to go to war if machines were used primarily instead of humans.
@mastathrash56093 ай бұрын
@@m.a3914 agreed, that's also a worrisome prospect also odd my origional comment was deleted...thanks YT or.. skynet 😅
@lawrenceng79713 ай бұрын
Copying china now lol
@thomastolan14773 ай бұрын
Quantity has its own quality, so the Anduril drone may be best in early stages to obtain at least minimal air superiority, while the GA drone may be best in maintaining that air superiority, since we will likely not be actively attacking deep into the homeland of a near peer adversary to avoid escalating to nuclear war.
@alanfriesen98373 ай бұрын
I think it's good that we're looking at something that can be mass-produced. I worry some of our stuff is virtually irreplaceable within the time constraints of an actual war.
@brianvanveghel78153 ай бұрын
Would be nice to have the F-15E and F -15EX with the CCA
@Maginus-Sama3 ай бұрын
Would the CCA be able to keep up when the F15 speeds up to Mach Jezus? 🎉
@josephahner30313 ай бұрын
@@Maginus-Samawould it have to?
@billhanna21483 ай бұрын
Which begs the question how do you coordinate the different speeds (manned and unmanned) with all the different load outs and refuelings???
@mladenmatosevic45913 ай бұрын
When you got near peer defended airspace rxpect mash radars (better in detecting stealth vehicles) and massive AA network. In the end hypersonic and ballistic missiles will do most damage, while low cost suicide drones will be used to drain AA resources.
@TheDoorspook11c3 ай бұрын
All that depends on destroying stealth assets, however we still have low cost remote wild weasel options today that are safer and able to totally blind EAD without risking personnel. We're good.
@Raycheetah3 ай бұрын
General Atomics is also a robotics corporation in the fictional world of the Fallout games. =^[.]^=
@robertmaybeth34343 ай бұрын
Unmanned aircraft are the future. Sad to say, for human pilots, no human can out-fly a computer chip. Decisions are made not in fractions of a second but in ten-thousandths of a second and reaction time is just as fast. And the weight savings from not having any humans on board are highly significant. The tons of weight saved from not having ejector seats, oxygen systems, and armor plate needed by a fragile human being, can be better used to increase payload, range, or top speed of the aircraft. Best of all when an unmanned fighter goes down, no humans have to lose their lives, or get taken prisoner and paraded around like a zoo animal!
@cam_85283 ай бұрын
its still important to have a human pilot loitering with command+control networks but let the drone fighter jets utilize g force maneuvers the human body cant widthstand.
@cyberfunk37933 ай бұрын
I have wondered why they don't have unmanned tanks yet. Seems that would be an easier domain to work with than air, if the tank loses connection it can simply park and wait unlike an airplane or be programmed to return to base.
@Draxynnic3 ай бұрын
@@cyberfunk3793 Because it actually isn't. Most of the complexity of flight comes from handling the physics, but in the air, you mostly have unobstructed sight-lines (especially with radar) and military aircraft are normally distinguishable from civilian aircraft. On the ground, you might have all sorts of decision-making complexity due to the terrain, and from the perspective of the rules of war, any misidentification of civilians as enemy soldiers by the AI is going to be a major problem. Plus, the whole "terrain blocking connection" thing. Sure, it might be able to park and wait or return to preset coordinates, but that's still a pain if there were people relying on that robotank showing up where it's supposed to be going, or the contingency algorithm leads to it being destroyed, or if the enemy jams it and then follows it to find out where they're programmed to go back to. A lot of Western tanks also still have loaders for various reasons, although a custom-built robotank would probably come with a suitable autoloading system (you don't care so much if your tank enters the turret-toss-Olympics if there was nobody in it to begin with) That said, I think there is some work going into robotanks, it's just likely to be a case of very close operation with the manned tanks directing them. In the air, a loyal wingman could be tens of kilometres away and still be considered to be in fairly close support with the directing aircraft, due to the ranges of modern missiles. On the ground, the distances between a robotank and the operator would probably be measured in hundreds of metres at most. Possibly more if the operation is through the medium of an overhead drone, but that comes with the risk of "for want of a drone, a platoon of robotanks was lost" scenarios.
@robertmaybeth34343 ай бұрын
@@cyberfunk3793 Well, I've owned remote control toy tanks and even though they are on treads they get stuck anywhere and everywhere. Now imagine a fully automatic one that had to run loose. With nobody to come and get them unstuck. In WW2 the Germans tried making this small tracked contraption called Goliath. It was controlled by a long cable and stuffed full of explosives, to drive under an enemy tank and blow up. The cable part alone made it pointless, because how much cable are you going to use for your Goliath, a mile of it? lol
@cyberfunk37933 ай бұрын
@@robertmaybeth3434 Why would a drone tank be any different from a recovery perspective? If you can go and recover a tank driven to a swamp by humans, you can go get a drone tank from the same place. Also, even the recovery vehicles could be drones at some point.
@kvas62553 ай бұрын
If you think ab it it’s a good idea not to let Lockheed or Boeing make the wingmen. Can’t put all your eggs in one basket.
@blacktronpavel3 ай бұрын
“Collaborative Combat Aircraft” reminds me of the Options in Gradius.
@NerffffF3 ай бұрын
Believe me, the Principality of Belka is behinding this.
@cutterpatterson63683 ай бұрын
Something something I don’t see any borders from up here something something
@kameronjones71393 ай бұрын
Given how good the AI the usa just tested, i do think this will be better than what most realize
@unvergebeneid3 ай бұрын
I'm wondering if these new contractors have access to secret technology developed in earlier projects. Because of that's not the case, the lack of experience and tight deadlines mean basically any adversary can also develop the same systems.
@thechannel39013 ай бұрын
You can notice that anduril choose the design of a 4th gen fighter jet. It will be easy to detect and bait for the enemies
@oneshothunter98773 ай бұрын
Even we know now. 😁
@WTA_3 ай бұрын
I'd imagine a use case is to serve as bait if it means more expensive aircraft and pilots survive
@thechannel39013 ай бұрын
@WTA_ What i meant by bait is that the anduril drone is the one who will be engaged in a dog fight because the 6 gen fighter jet is way more expensive to be sacrificed
@murder.simulator3 ай бұрын
You would think AI drones could tell the difference between a column of tanks and aid trucks with skillets mounted on top
@cloudstrike40673 ай бұрын
It is great with very advance weapons but I think US needs more weapons to counter cheap kamikaze drones and maybe developing advance with affordable kamikaze drones..
@foxglow67983 ай бұрын
Look up the Perdix drone program and “loitering munitions.” They’re well on the way to such drone swarms. Also in terms of countering, that’s what the HEL weapons and microwave weapons are for.
@theclowninghasbegun34423 ай бұрын
Billions must fly!
@Djamonja3 ай бұрын
Trollboys must keep trolling right?
@pike1003 ай бұрын
Billions?!? LMAO! 🤣
@jaredyoung53533 ай бұрын
I think I would skip the NGAD and move forward with a Super F35 with larger wings and conformal fuel tanks. You need the airframe to control the loyal wingman
@west_adv3 ай бұрын
There is already error in the beginning. Russia doesn't have 5th generation yet. Engines are still missing and they are not that stealth as should be.
@craigkdillon3 ай бұрын
What about drone carriers?? CCA's will take up space on a carrier. Will the Navy want to reduce the number of aircraft?? Or, will they want smaller drone carriers of about 10000 tons to work with the carriers? Drone carriers make operational sense to me.
@jonathanpfeffer37163 ай бұрын
CATOBAR launch enables SIGNIFICANTLY greater payload, range, and basically everything in a design. Its just impossible to design as good of an aircraft when you have an insane weight constraint imposed by the need to takeoff under its own power on a ramp. Drones absolutely have their place on smaller ships but when it comes to the CCA specifically, you just can’t have that constraint if you need a drone that’s cheap and high capability at the same time.
@craigkdillon3 ай бұрын
@@jonathanpfeffer3716 Are you saying that drones must be on the large carriers then? If so, then many planes would have to be left off. Drones take up space. I do agree that CATOBAR designed drones would be best. I don't see why smaller drone carriers couldn't be CATOBAR.
@jonathanpfeffer37163 ай бұрын
@@craigkdillon I’m saying CCAs, not all drones, just those, either need to be on a airbase or on a large CATOBAR carrier, yes. They’ll take up space, but they’re significantly smaller than other aircraft. If you can store 4 CCAs for one Superhornet for example, that’s an overall increase in capability. You can’t really make small CATOBAR carriers, nor would it make sense to. It’s not possible just because CATOBAR systems and the arresting wires are very very big and can’t really be made smaller, and because they either take massive steam boilers, if they’re conventional, or nuclear reactors, if they’re electromagnetic. Small carriers just aren’t that great of an idea in general. The USN, every 3-5 years for like the last 3 decades has done a study checking out whether smaller carriers are worth it to invest in. The benefits are obvious: a more versatile, mobile carrier force that is more distributed and therefore more resilient to damage. The problem is sortie rates. With small carriers you might only be able to put 1-2 aircraft on the deck at once, then you need to bring more up from the storage deck on the elevator, which is a very slow process. With existing large carriers, they have enough room to store multiple times that number of aircraft on the deck, and they can launch aircraft constantly while bringing more up from the storage deck, without any delays. This makes a really really big difference in sortie rates. The USN really wants smaller carriers, that’s why they constantly conduct those studies, but the tradeoff is just too big. I don’t really see the need for a dedicated drone carrier personally.
@craigkdillon3 ай бұрын
@@jonathanpfeffer3716 If the drones were much smaller --- why couldn't the CATOBAR systems be made proportionately smaller? I do not accept your reasoning.
@jonathanpfeffer37163 ай бұрын
@@craigkdillon So if you made some kind of tiny CATOBAR system? Then you would have a small carrier literally only capable of launching and receiving extremely lightweight drones, with an abysmal sortie rate. I see zero application for that, it would essentially just be a significantly more expensive and complex ramp carrier, except it can’t even launch planes. I feel Iike you might be operating under the assumption that smaller = cheaper, which really isn’t necessarily true, and also neglecting to realize the sheer amount of stuff that a carrier needs to function basically. Radar, big engines, defensive weapons, mission-planning systems and fancy communications gear, the catapults and arresting wires, the heavy maintenance facilities and extensive weapons/aircraft storage facility. And then if you aren’t making it nuclear it’s gonna need massive fuel tanks. Steel and air are cheap. The expensive components are the ones above, and a small carrier will need all of them just as much as a big carrier. Also, a significantly greater proportion of the air wing will need to be devoted towards defensive operations since the enemy doesn’t care how big your carrier is, they’ll try just as hard to sink it. There’s a pretty small difference in cost and a very big difference in capability for the aforementioned sortie rate reasons and much more. There’s really no reason to make a small carrier unless you literally just don’t have the money for a bigger one, which is why the USN repeatedly doesn’t build small carriers. In summary, small carriers, including whatever kind of drone carrier you are thinking of, don’t ever make sense to build if you can make bigger ones. If you can articulate some advantage that I’m neglecting to think of let me know.
@Jeff553693 ай бұрын
They'll need different drones for different mission sets. If the cost is low enough, they'll be able to justify the increased demand on the logistics train. Though ideally, the parts list would be standardized across the fleet of different designs.
@bacburrito42253 ай бұрын
Quite likely they’d be modular, so parts can be swapped easily. The B21 is supposed to have an element of modularity for ongoing upgrades. The airframe isn’t really the challenge, keeping it relevant is.
@raptorsean14643 ай бұрын
I would love to see an air frame that is built modular, almost like a Lego set. So not only changing, say the nose, radar, electronics, and weapons but also changing the wings, fuselage, tail, engine, ect,... I know at some point in the future. It will go this way. That is ultimately what they're shooting for. Just imagine a theoretical "shelf" that has several fuselages, engines, tails (or tailless), wings, electronics, each and every part, and/or subsystem. So from speed to stealth to maneuverability, to virtually every mission, each and every single part can be mixed and matched in countless configurations. I believe this is the ultimate dream of the military.
@stevinharper35513 ай бұрын
Never a good sign when we start rushing new weapons into production
@WilliamGibble3 ай бұрын
Equiped with Tom Cruise artificial intelligence chip ...
@gaussmanv23 ай бұрын
I may have missed it in the video, but is there a reason they're not looking at pairing CCAs with F35s? It's a proven airframe, we already have them, already have a supply chain built for them etc. you could also see just how effective they are before buying the whole kit and kaboodle.
@raptorsean14643 ай бұрын
Yes, you must have missed it.They're looking to add at least 2 for each f-35
@gaussmanv23 ай бұрын
@@raptorsean1464 thanks!
@RobFomenko3 ай бұрын
The problem with f35 is that there's only a single seat, so single pilot. He has enough to do flying the plane and fighting it so f-35 will not be able to manage many ccas. He mentions it in the video.
@gaussmanv23 ай бұрын
@@RobFomenko wow I missed a lot. Had it on in the background.
@patclark21863 ай бұрын
It seems the Americans are saying that quantity will have a quality all it's own.
@Antonio186773 ай бұрын
The question is how the hell do we even afford this? Printing money like the Weimar Republic it’s only a matter of time before the economy fails.
@Jack-yv2xu3 ай бұрын
@@Antonio18677US defense spending is 3.45% of gdp, plus we are the richest country in the world, we can afford it.
@Antonio186773 ай бұрын
@@Jack-yv2xu for the time being surely but what about inflation?
@Jack-yv2xu3 ай бұрын
@@Antonio18677 Inflations is going down. It is 3.1% right now, a little higher than the 2% target but nothing compared to other countries with double digit inflation.
@Jeff553693 ай бұрын
@@Antonio18677 these things are more or less the cost of a cruise missile, potentially much less in the case of the Anduril drone. Defense is something you can't skimp on, if you do, some other power will come and take what you have. The other side of that coin is the deterrence factor. The f22, for example, was a large deterrent for other people wanting to mess with the US, knowing that any air power struggle would be over in a matter of days.
@dne93943 ай бұрын
How about putting recovery parachutes in the loyal wingman drones? They could fly at max endurance, then parachute to the ground for recovery. Maybe even a deployable recovery “balloon” cable, so the drone could be quickly recovered by a passing C-130 or helo. When you remove the human asset, many possibilities open up. One thing which does become problematic, is carrier recovery. When aircraft return to the carrier for recovery, they can be used to help locate the carrier group.
@pike1003 ай бұрын
Aircraft carriers can't be hidden from modern radars and sonars anyway.
@GSteel-rh9iu3 ай бұрын
What happened to developing Boeing AUS MQ-25 Ghostbat? I had a interesting design.
@aerozppln3 ай бұрын
The carrier-based drone? Plans are to deploy in 2027 I believe
@GenericName45613 ай бұрын
Belkan witchcraft
@Turf-yj9ei3 ай бұрын
One thing I haven't heard anybody comment on is the possibility of using very long range stealthy drones to identify targets for very long range stealthy cruise missiles like the JASSM-ER. If we have are launched Christmases with a 600 to 1,000 mi range that can be launched out of the back of a C-130 are we really need drones to do is identify targets and relay coordinates
@Chiberia3 ай бұрын
11:11 - love the subtle dig, Russia isn't even on the list any more. from #2 to # none
@td09993 ай бұрын
Blot out the sky, unable to target lock. -the future
@MrGtubedude3 ай бұрын
Anduril’s drone looks like the f100 super saber
@Myungbean3 ай бұрын
Sounds like the Fury might be more suitable for the F-15EX. Wouldn't a non-LO/stealthy drone give away the F-35 or NGAD?
@darhammora78673 ай бұрын
I don't understand what's the number of 300 F-35 !!, the USAF is planning to acquire 1700 F-35, are these 300 F-35s optimized for air to air combat?!!
@Eshrakgaming9343 ай бұрын
no they are optimized for both role air to air and air to ground.
@John_shepard3 ай бұрын
It’s meant to be a jack of all trades. The f22 is still superior for air to air as that’s the only role it plays.
@mikevalentino22253 ай бұрын
Those are super cool.
@saadologue3 ай бұрын
RIP Hollywood actors.
@Chiberia3 ай бұрын
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@pike1003 ай бұрын
What are you talking about???
@crackyflipside3 ай бұрын
You should check out HD Hyundai's Tenebris next. I think the same strategy as CCA but for the boats. Also the Titan program for managing land operations, data center on wheels for low latency communication with autonomous equipment.
@Steelers-rk3ig2 ай бұрын
F35 will be the last manned purpose built fighter.
@dansands81402 ай бұрын
Built by the US.
@pancytryna9378Ай бұрын
Uh, NGAD exists lol
@miroslavstafi3 ай бұрын
Dale Brown's Dreamland, "Strike Zone", 2003😐
@shanerooney72883 ай бұрын
"Oh scary. Oh-oh-oh . Shiver me timbers"
@levoGAMES3 ай бұрын
Depending on how far they go with this, autonomous flight research might end up in civilian application as well - it's actually quite likely to happen if they can figure it out. I reckon the "adversaries" will invest in surface-to-air defense systems that have a better cost-efficiency.
@ShadowPhoenixMaximus3 ай бұрын
The British government is developing lasers to shoot down drones. So its already happening
@josephahner30313 ай бұрын
Autonomous flight research started in civilian aviation.
@josephahner30313 ай бұрын
@@ShadowPhoenixMaximusthe British, the US, Israel and several others yes. Don't know how Russia's laser aa programs are going but if they had a robust one before 2022 I'd imagine they'd have rushed it into service as soon as possible.
@maotseovich13473 ай бұрын
[Communicating with reapers] "takes like a second". Put differently, those things have a ping of about 1000ms! Just think how bad it is when someone's ping goes from 100 to 200...
@benoithudson72353 ай бұрын
It’s just inaccurate. Ping times via geosynchronous satellite are around 500-600ms. Via LEO satellites it can be faster than fibre.
@piotrd.48503 ай бұрын
0:24 - NGAD thumbnail looks like untis from Total Annhilation
@BBBrasil3 ай бұрын
I imagine AI is very important for least important things. For example, after spent its missile payload a B2B command can be issued and the CCA would fly autonomously home, no need for someone to fly it remotely.
@mikets423 ай бұрын
No, it does not take a second to reach another side of planet. The communiction speed is 2e8 m/s, accunting for regeneration latencies. 20,000 km is half-circumference. 100...450 km is satellite altitude. So - 100ms, give or take. Yet, it is important because it limits feedback loop bandwidth.
@tamooo63153 ай бұрын
your not accounting for the encryption, decryption, and processing the data along the way. especially the latency that's seen in satcom
@mikets423 ай бұрын
@@tamooo6315 Correct. I am not. Because I know how it works.
@charleswomack21663 ай бұрын
For my brain to better understand these videos, I put the playback speed at 1.25. That is just my personal speed of understanding. And yes, people have told me that I tell them way too many items at once in verbal discource!
@ivanzlatar24453 ай бұрын
I honestly thought I was the only one !! :)
@Dr.Westside3 ай бұрын
Slowpoke
@skankhunt90782 ай бұрын
It is called autism
@dansands81402 ай бұрын
I was going to mock you for boasting about such a minor thing, but I just tried it and this is way better.
@dandelions9073 ай бұрын
Multiple hundreds of millions of dollars per plane,
@pike1003 ай бұрын
Did you even watch the video?!? The current estimated prices for the Loyal Wingman planes is from $20 million to $40 million per plane, NOT hundreds of millions per plane. What a dumb a$$!
@Jay1213 ай бұрын
"Everybody good? Plenty of slaves for my robot colony?"
@oldfoolcaraudio3 ай бұрын
Imagine: all those F16's and F18's getting closer to their end of Airframe life. Once you have AI pilots you don't need to keep flying them to train pilots . So as the F16 and even F18 fleets age, they can turn them into drones shortly before the end of airframe life and then store them like misiles. surplus can be stored in the Bone yard.
@GrassXMagnum3 ай бұрын
I don't believe F16 and F18 can "be stored like missiles" - Those aircraft still need lots of maintenance, even when in storage. Other countries might have a good use for them eventually (right effin now) though...
@Cyrribrae3 ай бұрын
@@GrassXMagnumyep.. I agree. That said, a lot of the development on fighter AI has been on an f-16 platform. And AI f16s might be the ideal wild weasel platforms for taking out enemy air defenses
@piotrd.48503 ай бұрын
@@GrassXMagnum yes, but on the other hand - it's hardly a concern if 10% fails during the mission.
@pike1003 ай бұрын
If they're at the end of their airframe life, then those old jets won't be useful for anything (including being converted into drones).