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Originally Posted by castlebravo92
Within the next 10 years, probably within the next 5, you will have autonomous drone swarms deployed by the US and China, at a minimum, that will simultaneously deploy thousands to tends of thousands of drones into a combat zone to search and destroy any militarily valuable asset in a wide footprint. Ballistic missiles will be used to deploy drone swarms thousands of miles away.
The value of everything that is not a drone is fading rapidly, including manpower.
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You may be right, but if you look at the current technology:
Who has functioning Hypersonicmissiles and deploys them?
Russia
If the media is to be believed (and yes, I am aware that the military doesnt tell us all) the USA is years if not decades behind Russia and China.
And to the drone swarms:
Do we even have the production capabilities to do so?
I dont want to sound conspiracy theorists but every chip from China is a potentially hole to hack them. So, we would need an entire industrial setup here in the west. And it would be best if every country has a factory or two of its own.
And yes, we should standarsize them. Find a body where you can fit multiple types of engines, armor and weaponsload and then every country can build their own drones.
A german unit finds a french drone with a damaged engine: put a german engine in it and use it.
But the greatest threat I see is Electronic Warfare. How do we make sure that our drones are not hacked?
According to WELT (german newspaper) Germany is under relentless assault (but below war threshold) by other states. And some attacks can be followed to Russia and China. But also other countries. And it is hinted that some of those other countries are NATO members, industrial espionage somebody?
So, do we have the Cyberwarfare capabilities against hacking and why do we hurt each other?