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.
Whenever I hear about a swarm of drones I think of Slaughterbots: https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA?si=W4sUSmVI4wZTghsV
We’re all so screwed.
If I was making them I would make them go for your groin.
A. You will most likely live if you get medical attention.
B. Most people are more scared of their junk being blown off and living compared to just dying.
C. No danger of leading a movement later. What fascist is going to support a person who is a medical incel?
Has anybody seen what the CCP has done during the recent floods, or the fukushima wastewater discharge, or during Covid? The CCP is busy destroying China as it is. Why would western militaries bother?
Because the last gasps of dying empires often involve launching (and losing) new wars of conquest. Look at what the Russian Empire is doing in Ukraine.
Seriously, they just need to be waited out, they are destroying themselves. especially if their real estate bubble actually pops it’s going to be worse than 2008 for them.
It is an entire country run by and built on incompetence, at this point Papua New Guinea scares me more as a country.
Fukushima was Japan not China…
Ah, I misread your post. Ignore me.
The CCP is still raising a huge stink about it. They banned all Japanese seafood
Rumor is they also hacked Toyota over it.
Chinese drones are so cheap because they are very high volume and very low capability. (Compared to normal military gear) Lower wages also don’t hurt. But to domestically make cheap drones, they’ll need to make millions and not let the military feature creep them to death.
