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"The fighter jet era has passed," Musk said, according to CNBC. "Drone warfare is where the future will be.
The Patriot missile battery at Dhahran had been in operation for 100 hours, by which time the system's internal clock had drifted by one-third of a second. Due to the missile's speed this was equivalent to a miss distance of 600 meters.
Just how capable is the S-400 or Patriot-3 etc? Flying at KM/sec and 20G makes it sound unavoidable to human pilots. The factors at these speeds are hard to humanely comprehend. Is a SAM a drone or pilotless aircraft?
A drone can also be a pilotless ship or submarine, not just an aircraft.SAMs are just that: surface to air missiles.
A drone by definition, is a pilotless aircraft.
To put it into WWII perspective:
The V-2 was a missile, the V-1 was a cruise missile and the USN's TDR-1 was a drone.
Battle Star Galactica reboot?Now where have I heard this before?
Twatwaffle? Compared to you, perhaps.1) Elon Musk is a twatwaffle. The less said, the better.
2) Drones will be most of future air warfare. Manned airplanes will still have a vital role, I believe, but it will be as a junior partner.
3) Whether we call SAMs "drones" or not doesn't change their impact on the combat space.
Twatwaffle? Compared to you, perhaps.
no thanks, i'll just quietly admire your greatness.Not sure of your point. He's a twatwaffle in my opinion. If you think that's wrong, perhaps you should show why, rather than making a not-so-subtle ad homeneim?
I know what ya' meant.no thanks, i'll just quietly admire your greatness.
AI should have faster reaction times.In theory AI should not mistakes that humans are capable of, but I still wouldn't have a sleep while driving a Tesla on autopilot down a freeway because AI/computers do really complex tasks in a dumb way (ie. can process lots of inputs 1000 times a second), but there will be some inputs they don't even measure that a human will observe.
I don't think AI fighters would be superiour thinkers to humans its just the plane/drone they fly would have better performance as it would be lighter and pull G without human concerns.
The subject "fighters are dead" was already brought up nearly 70 years ago when stand off weapons capable of (semi)autonomous operation were introduced.In theory AI should not mistakes that humans are capable of, but I still wouldn't have a sleep while driving a Tesla on autopilot down a freeway because AI/computers do really complex tasks in a dumb way (ie. can process lots of inputs 1000 times a second), but there will be some inputs they don't even measure that a human will observe.
I don't think AI fighters would be superiour thinkers to humans its just the plane/drone they fly would have better performance as it would be lighter and pull G without human concerns.
no thanks, i'll just quietly admire your greatness.