‘Hellscape’: DOD launches massive drone swarm program to counter China
‘Hellscape’: DOD launches massive drone swarm program to counter China
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‘Hellscape’: DOD launches massive drone swarm program to counter China
China’s most important asset in potential war with the United States is “mass,” says Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks: “More ships. More missiles. More people.”
To counter that advantage, the Defense Department will launch an initiative called Replicator to create cheap drones across the air, sea, and land in the “multiple thousands” within the next two years.
Cheap drones, of the type Ukraine has deployed to great effect against Russia, can be produced close to the battlefield at much lower cost than typical Defense Department weapons.
Humans keep trying to make war impossible by making it worse, and it never works. It's depressing to think of where that leads.
Is that actually true that it doesn't work though? Has the prevalence of wars amongst similarly armed nations gone up?
I could be wrong but it feels like you used to hear about neighbouring countries having small wars and skirmishes for land all the time and now it's a relatively rare occurrence.
Also kind of odd to say that when the world wars were both objectively just incomparably bloody with far more civilian casualties than the war in Ukraine and lead to doomsday weapons that can destroy the entire earth ... like where else are you depressed to go that we haven't been already?
Today was a different sort of day, he told himself. Today, I will argue against a sad person's feelings.
It doesn't work. It may not be have been US vs USSR but it was several proxy wars. The proxy war we have now is the war in Ukraine. A misunderstanding, or deliberate deception, could lead to a world war. Just look at Vietnam and the reasons the US got involved. Right now I believe the west is using the current war as testing grounds for unproven tech, like the tech used to shoot down hypersonic missles from Russia, but that tech week have to pay for itself one day.