Roundup 25 - Drones! Drones! Drones!

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[@mave7058]

Hey Ryan, I know you don't like to get political, but can you check out the OSINT work done to determine that the North Carolina nominee was posting questionable stuff on a corn site?

[@dillonseal4069]

Hey Ryan per the discussion in this videos. Would you like to explain what EW (electronic warfare) is and why it’s important. The community is constantly trying to spread awareness and it feels like we are getting nowhere

[@grbradsk]

Comments on Anduril's Barracuda "modular" cruise missles?

[@richbushell205]

Excellent description of the difference between a Jazzy Missle and a Shithead Drone.

[@luminyam6145]

I love those descriptions!🤣

[@MorRobots]

The JASSM also just absolutely WORKS.

[@twelvestitches984]

Ukraine is using 3D printers and civilians to make hundreds of small drones every day. They spot tie RPG rounds underneath these small drones. They use a lightweight spotter drone to go out and find targets then the armed drone comes in and hits it. They are taking out trucks, tanks, armored vehicles, air defense, and soldiers. This is HUGE force multiplier and it's very cheap. Why can't the Russians retake Kursk? Because Russia is horrible at mobile operations. They are good at sitting in a trench behind huge minefields with artillery behind them. Also, Russia cannot accurately detect the enemy. Their fighting doctrine is to hit an area with massive artillery strikes then go in with tanks and they don't want to move their artillery from the Donbass, Donetsk, and Crimean areas. If Russia sent fighters to attack an area near Kursk they would just area bomb and run home while western fighters would accurately identify a target and place bombs within feet of that target. China already has stealth fighters. A war with China will be more of a space war than people realize.

[@kellscorner1130]

That’s soooooo cool….anyways so the continually dissolving east front and the failure of Kursk…

[@danielmeyer5865]

The drone sweet drone shirt was ahead of it's time

[@stevechance150]

Hey Ryan, how about covering those jet ski drones that Ukraine used against Russian ships. Those are brilliant!

[@hemaccabe4292]

Ryan, I like the work your company is doing on delivering medical supplies. I think being able to deliver all sorts of supplies to forward deployed troops would be very useful.

[@junj0u]

Thank you Ryan Behoooove

[@notsure2101]

I'd imagine the extra weight of a loaded AK would drain the battery faster

[@danboyd2725]

Asminov would be so disappointed. The 1st law of robotics was supposed to be not to harm humans. Now it's job one.

[@FarmerDrew]

Asminov, now with more aminos

[@GrigoriZhukov]

People way smarter than I wish was. Have poked so many holes in those "laws." I wish that could remember the proper references. For both our sakes.

[@JohnCollins-vy4nf]

​@@GrigoriZhukovAsimov was a sci-fi author, not a billionaire looking for loopholes in laws.

[@FarmerDrew]

@@danboyd2725 In 1985, Asimov added a fourth law, called Law Zero, in his work Robots and Empire. Law Zero states that a robot cannot cause harm to mankind or, by inaction, allow mankind to come to harm. And you know the implications there.

[@DdesideriaS]

They CAN retarget shaheds in flight! They use cheap modems to connect to local cell networks to provide guidance updates. Yes, this method makes them vulnerable to jamming, but considering they are launching 60+ DAILY, some of those do get to target.

[@johnhaller5851]

One of the advantages of a drone in a hot war is that they are being produced in high quantity and the testing and R&D get spread over that larger number of units. Additionally, the more complicated expensive cruise missles have long and varied supply chains, which are difficult to scale to get them to a cheaper weapon. Lastly, unless there is an extential threat, private companies and countries don't want to invest in factories which can produce more weapons than the country can afford and have to use as they are produced.

[@Realfrenchie]

Hey Ryan! Canada here, for air superiority donc rely too much on us. we have only have 83 CF-18 and I work for a tool and hardware resaler and I provide a lot of rivets to Bagotville, Quebec airbase.... but the good new is we are waiting for 88 F-35A....

[@malloc7108]

The postal truck story is pretty old, Ryan, but kudos to ground for allowing me to filter out politics. I appreciated the arguing during procurement about how not all were electric (ignoring the obviously stupid anti-ev stuff). Like, I have an EV and even I understand that having an older ICE engine out in a rural area is good for the next few decades until we build out our infrastructure.

[@GrigoriZhukov]

Years at worst on ev charging away from home. But even as rural I am, you just charge overnight at home. Very few can do that home even out here.

[@themanhimself3]

​@@GrigoriZhukovI'm surprised that's not brought up more. You could put some solar on your farm and literally have "free" transport. Unless you strike oil that's just not possible with ICE

[@benashbaugh5982]

GI Joe theme song is no longer copyrighted? Nice.

[@wakemiamigreatagain]

I'm really curious about your thoughts on the pager/walkie talkie attacks and how they were orchestrated.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

I’m pretty sure that “Drones! Drones! Drones!” was the title of Mötley Crüe’s 4th album.

[@bluesquare23]

As an American let me just say I think the NSA and DIA are doing a great job and deserve all the billions they ask for! 🦅🇺🇸 Please don’t hurt my family! 🙏

[@richardkudrna7503]

About 40 years ago I was shown a defense readiness assessment that placed soviet aircraft at 96% available vs 70% NATO. They achieved this by insanely expensive scheduled maintenance. Example was Mig-21 at 600 hours “replace wiring”. Inspect nose wheel undercarriage with 10x magnifier, if crack found, replace. Basically no regard to economics at all. The origins were that they copied WW2 German practice except that was based on 100 hours survival. Today we wonder what Russian Air Force practice is, and what availability is. They have needed to re-source a lot of parts and consumables and process a lot of engineering changes. Interchangeability has probably worsened.

[@willied88m]

Those postal trucks are made by Grumman

[@matthemming9105]

Mighty Robots, Mighty Vehicles - GO BOTS!!!

[@robbiekop7]

Go..Go..Power Rangers 👊

[@hemaccabe4292]

Considering we pay for that Cruise Missile R7D up front, Ryan, perhaps you can explain that the per copy is lower.

[@MrGivmedew]

For small arms drones I think people are imagining the wrong drone! Google 3” ducted FPV drone. Add an ultra light single use .22 caliber 3.5” barrel with something like the special load ultralight version of FNH 5.7 (the ultra light not to reduce weight but because it has the highest energy at short range w/ short barrel) or if they perform well in short barrels you could .17HMR but I don’t know how those perform out of short barrels. Anyways it’s going to come down to software and most importantly the will to deploy such a drone! Because it’s going to be the software doing the shooting. There is no body armor out there that’s going to stop a FNH 5.7 to the face from point blank! Eventually these will be used. They can be made smaller and more effective than micro explosive drones. It’s possible to even do multiple shots. Load them up with 4 barrels. Maybe you need a 3.5-4” drone at this point but it’s doable. Also don’t worry about recoil. The drone might go tumbling through the air but flight computer will solve the tumble nearly immediately. So depending on the size of the drone it might get shoved back a foot while flipping but it will recover. Get a big fiber optic coupled human flown hexcopter drone with half a dozen of these to drop them all above trench they go in and they all get neck and face shots and maybe then use that magical software that can cook off a lithium ion and turn it into an explosive… just kidding. It wouldn’t take much to trigger something that burns out the flight computer so they aren’t easily reused. Anyways this stuff really just going to come down to who has the will to use without suffering political blowback. That’s going to be a bigger problem than writing software to get a drone with something like .17HMR or FNH5.7 to get a face shot from 1 foot away!

[@tonyennis1787]

Russia doesn't maintain any of their gear. Why should they, when up to now, no one had the gumption to test them?

[@basedhermit8308]

Still think they were just batteries?

[@FoxtrotYouniform]

"missile" and "drone" are separated only by capability and semantics these days.

[@lancewilson457]

Good morning from LR ARK

[@easternma]

For drone v cruise missile cost I would also add the economics, Drone parts are produced in huge numbers due to civilian market driving down price but missiles have significantly smaller production rates and defense contractor salaries and much higher that a Chinese factory worker. For drones and small arms, the recoil can disrupt the stability of the platform making quick follow up shots difficult.

[@paytonpeta1336]

I'm going to start stand next to everything I need next time so I get a coupon.

[@JohnCurtinmadrid]

Thanks

[@RyanMcBethProgramming]

Thank you

[@MarjanKaykavoosi]

Can you please also talk about the pagers when you have time please thank You 🙏🏽💙

[@drenk7]

Warlock is a great story.

[@DJSockmonkeyMusic]

I might be remebering wrong, I'm pretty sure there are only 5 operational Su 57s, and 3 spare airframes, and they're not exactly combat ready. I've heard that the flight computer is very failure prone, and flight hours are incredibly low because the first few production aircraft are constantly having to be rebuilt. I think it was an ISW analysis of russian air power a few months ago.

[@schlirf]

Yeah, they keep Droning on....

[@ve2zdx]

I easily see the new atlas robot being used as a backpack and deployed to clean trenches

[@16mopey]

Wasn't there a clip recently with a drone modified to use a RPG or a similar type rocket launcher surely that version must have some benefit.

[@themanhimself3]

The real advantage is shape charges. Small charge that cuts right through tanks. Basically an RPG with propellers instead of rockets.

[@PocketBrain]

Small drones are useful for harassment. They can't carry a lot of ammo or lift big ordnance, but you may get them to chase troops into buildings or other areas you have pre-ranged with artillery.

[@nightwaves3203]

Robo Ryan the end of the Kbar infantry.

[@rando6836]

“Any day now the Chinese will send millions of robot dog drones to the front lines.”

[@j.f.fisher5318]

Kamikaze drones are frequently being used in place of artillery because there isn't enough artillery ammo. The one advantage of shooting from drones is that the lower a drone flies the more likely the drone is to lose communications with the controller, and the majority of kamikaze attacks fail because of this - up to 90% fail we only see video of the successes. Staying high and shooting at infantry reduces the chance of losing the drone and allows the drone to stay up where signal is good. As to the difference between drones and missiles, the rocket equation is instructive. The lower the performance of the engine the less severe, but the basic physics still applies to something like a Shahid. Anything added has a cascading impact on the complexity of everything else. This is also an advantage of drones over manned aircraft. I've read thst 25% of the F-16 is the cockpit or the cascading added capability required as a consequence of the cockpit.

[@timmak1914]

Why hasn't anyone focused on the fact that the Iranian ambassador had a Hezbollah pager on his person?

[@KTM55100]

What’s going on with the Aleutian Islands? I heard on the PDB we a set up over 100 troops with a couple of ATACMS on one of the islands. Love the channel 🤙🏻

[@GrigoriZhukov]

Could be a fafo mission. Except that the troops are there to provide the fo if russia really stupidly pushes the fa. If you take my meaning.

[@themanhimself3]

100 troops and a couple ATACMS? That's what the military takes for a lunch break. You probably have more military equipment in whatever city you live in.

[@overona15]

Maybe not AS devastating as a old school anti personel mine but I have seen soilders in Ukraine talking about the "toe poppers." Terrifying

[@BruceWSims]

You, Sir have great taste in Bourbon!! Yeah I see the RUSSELLs' 10 Year behind you. If you like sipping neat, may I also recommend UNCLE NEAREST 1856. VERY full-bodied though the 1883 is much lighter. I'd recommend BUFFALO TRACE but I beleive they have begun to homogenize the barrels when the real selling point used to be that a single barrel was bottled of itself. No real point......😮😮😮

[@lukebarrett7531]

Boom Boom Boom!!!

[@tiredagain6722]

Good onfo, as always

[@rivalrepairs]

What happened to the Zebras vs. Horses?

[@harpfully]

I prefer to hear viewpoints of guys who'll admit when they're wrong.

[@toragodzen]

Its just amazing : robodogs vs orcs )

[@themomaw]

Big disagree on the drones with small arms. An artillery system is a big expensive thing. Sure if the drone is just spotting then you can engage again and again using the same drone view, but a single 155mm SPG is the price equivalent of a THOUSAND drones. Heck, every single time you fire that cannon, you're effectively "spending" a drone. Cheap drones with AKs that have been pried out of dead Russian hands probably isn't the answer, but imagine that drone with a stabilized precision rifle and a thermal sight, picking off infantry before they have any hope of hearing the drone. Scary.

[@ag1382]

Probably already here, but being made more effective as prototypes. Terminator soon. Waiting for AI.

[@tonyennis1787]

There are drones with guns. But they do not fly. There have been small tracked vehicles with mounted machine guns for a long time. They lack the mobility of flying drones of course. Because of the stability of the tracked vehicle, the gun is deadly accurate. The gun has to be operated (fired) by a human or it is a violation of the Geneva Convention. No autonomous kill bots allowed. And I am totally positive no one is working on those. Totally. Ah, 13:34 there's a more modern example.

[@HugeAndHugeCoinChannal09999]

Big Sean got arrested

[@Rockiestmage]

I heard missiles, where's HLC?

[@achduke3651]

How about land mines that are more intelligent that disable after a period of time and would actually need an encrypted authorization to add more time but eventually shutdown completely.

[@paulh2468]

Since WW2, the US military has always focused on extremely expensive weapons systems. The B29 was an early example. It’s now part of American culture. Better to have a $5 million cruise missile than hundreds of cheap drones, regardless of logic and real world performance.

[@edl653]

Those Shahed drones have a 95% failure rate (shot down) and when they do hit have a small warhead. Really no comparison. A JSSM or two are going to succeed and target gone. It allows for moving on to the next target, increasing the speed of battle.

[@maksimfedoryak]

Better to have both👀

[@edl653]

@@maksimfedoryak Yes. The US is building cheaper version of their Heavy Torpedoes which cost $5 million. Why spend that much money to sink on a less capable target.

[@LRRPFco52]

US has it all, from autonomous unmanned space shuttles, high altitude/high endurance reconnaissance jets, mid altitude UAS with weapons, low altitude UAS for ISR, surface UAS for ship attacks, and sub surface Unmanned weaponized drones like smart torpedoes.

[@richardkudrna7503]

Low cost good SFC micro turbo fan engines have enabled low cost high capability drones. An example is how Iran re engined an obsolete Russian weapon by replacing the engine with a Slovak micro turbine and greatly increased range.

[@mattdurrant3244]

If they put all their planes over Ukraine, how would they harass Alaskan Airspace?

[@tsmspace]

well also the drone is slow. The missile is really fast. A really fast vehicle is a lot more expensive just for being a really fast vehicle.

[@Rabbitt-d6y]

Are you going to follow up on the pagers? Some say its not batterys.

[@ArchersPlace]

ive seen this movie

[@FarmerDrew]

Also drones don't know where they are at all times. They don't know where they are at all times because they don't know where they are not at all times.

[@scrolldier]

You forgot about the part about laundering money.

[@mhh7544]

Didnt Boston Dynamics tested their big dog robots in Afghanistan.

[@skilltreegaming4055]

Have you seen those anti drone microwave weapons? They seem neat.

[@kennandunn7533]

Still too expensive and fineky to be front line armaments right now, but the concept is interesting, given a few years to a decade and I could see them going into mass production and being issued at the squad level.

[@philippvoid1800]

calling China an advanced nation is bold.

[@swiftrebooted7704]

That merch..... Too swagger... Must resist .... And there goes all my money. Shit

[@armchairwanderer1287]

👍😊

[@WorkBob-m5h]

Can you combine your drone knowledge and programming/AI skills to tell us how drones can be programmed to operate autonomously while coordinating with other friendly drones and IFF gear on war-fighters to take ground or Russian position or trench?

[@davidrhea3716]

We need an EMP drone😂

[@Zero1030able]

The gun drones could probably fit some explosive too so when it runs out it can kamikaze. Maybe they could design a gun for the drone instead of just slapping an ak in there lol

[@tommygamba170]

Its about ceo cost.

[@martinlye2748]

You forgot accuracy and droe targeting by operator but I was thinking FPV drones. A question though.....Do you thing it's possible that Russia is cheating on aircraft maintenance?

[@NitroReviewsMN]

Good information. I was just listening with my headphones and just have to mention that is sounds like you've been drinking a bit to much. Maybe take a break man.

[@Hathur]

Drones don't have guns because most drones are too small / light / lack the mass to handle the recoil given off even by even a 5.56 or 7.62 rifle if you were to stick one on. (Ukrainians have tried, the recoil is too high, it causes the drone to spin out of control after the first 1st or 2nd shot). A large drone like the US Reaper might be able to carry a gun, dunno. A Russian engineer recently tried to make a recoiless rifle for small drones. Russian military wasn't interested.

[@FoxtrotYouniform]

reminder that the sponsor is an AI aggregation tool paired to a Key Word translator locked behind a paywall, all with questionable human oversight. You can get exactly the same aggregation tools for free using other platforms, often with far superior and more transparent human oversight.

[@FarmerDrew]

Day 478 of asking McBeth to cover S.P.U.R.

[@kennandunn7533]

Im gonna have to disagree on your landmine take Ryan, while I could see developed nations like those in NATO moving over to AI sentry guns in the near to mid future, landmines have an advantage that sentries don't, they're incredibly cheap, i could see poorer nations, or those who dont care about the humanitarian concerns utilising anti personal landmines well into the future because they work well enough for a fraction of the cost.

[@whoami8150]

Ryan, I am wondering, since the progress of the use of domestic drones to drop explosives, are you aware of either the US or UK intelligence services are concerned this method could be used to attack domestic targets?? As this is a simple way to transfer the explosive and the potential to not be found (as the user would be out of sight) , is it a real threat?? Thanks

[@RyanMcBethProgramming]

It definitely could

[@KieferSmokerland]

The Shaheeds also use Ukrainian SIM cards and cell towers for guidance.

[@wiredvibe1678]

Probably full of ardudrone tech

[@bigegames2019]

Have you seen the two Tesla trucks with M2 50cals on them, full propaganda, and no way in hell would I ride that into combat. But it is hilarious, dude bought one, and put a 12.5 on it, and now got 2 more with "trophy??" 50cals, they look like idiots.

[@gregHames-u6n]

Where can we buy your book?

[@RyanMcBethProgramming]

Amazon

[@jimmyconway8025]

You behind the times they already on battlefield Fire dogs too! MAGA 💊

[@randytessman6750]

When the B2 flies it first combat mission without an onboard crew, the family of drones will threaten a solider to a whole country. The planet is still kinda safe till we have an AI controlled weapon system in space.....but of course "they" are working on that already

[@darksars3622]

Obama would be proud

[@-FALKOR]

🇺🇸🇺🇦‬‬❤🤍💙‬‬💛‬‬🌹🇮🇱🤍💙‬‬

[@DormantGames]

I almost feel like the best investment would be to start up a very cheap drone company, basic camera with a decent weight capacity (but don't make any addons for it to use) and focus everything on making as many as possible for as cheap as possible, then when the military comes a calling for drone swarm, wham bam thank you for the money mam have a million drones. It is worth noting however, I make very poor financial decisions and must not be believed when it comes to investment of anything lol

[@Foolofatook889]

You sound drunk 😂

[@slider292]

Man, 70% readiness rate must make USAF/USN higher-ups pretty jealous...

[@veggienat1]

You are such and interesting, personable and entertaining PLUS good tase in whiskey ! I just cannot understand why you don't have a girlfriend (or two)

[@TitusVI]

first haha

[@wooopdiwoowoo2247]

damn! quicker than i

[@TitusVI]

@@wooopdiwoowoo2247 would rather have a million

[@olivere5497]

'Synthetic content'😅😢😅

[@nuubi9166]

Were you drunk while filming? you were slurring words more than usual :D

[@jerseyshoredroneservices225]

6:24 "The SU-34 is a bomb truck" Without explanation Ryan omits from the rest of the conversation. Stand off weapons like glide bombs and cruise missiles are exactly what Russia is using to attack at and near the front lines.

[@wooopdiwoowoo2247]

second***! - ♄

[@honkler5974]

3:20 No I don’t care about new delivery trucks, Let me know when they have a pneumatic tube system working cause trucks with A/C are not newsworthy barely even memo worthy should’ve picked a different article, ground news is a neat idea but A/C trucks? Seriously?

[@jerseyshoredroneservices225]

6:40 "... those are out of production..." So? If they get destroyed they're gone forever. So what? Why wouldn't Russia still use them? They ain't no good just tying up resources on the ground.

[@richardkudrna7503]

It makes them a bit precious.

[@jerseyshoredroneservices225]

@@richardkudrna7503 Maybe precious for museums. What would Russia be saving them for, that's more important than the situation that Russia is currently in? Russia is struggling. If it has airworthy warplanes it should be using them. The argument that they're precious doesn't makes sense (except for museums).