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The age of humans on the battlefield is ending faster than you think
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Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦
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‼️As per Russian sources, yesterday evening, a Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel armed with an R-73 air-to-air missile shot down a Russian Su-30 naval fighter roughly 50 km west of Novorossiysk—marking the first time in history that a military aircraft has been downed by an
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It’s a brilliant invention, but if China mass-produces it, it would make it absolutely impossible for the U.S. to defend Taiwan.
We should not make manned fighter jets Massive waste of $ Drones don’t need biological support systems… and can skimp on countermeasures… just make more of them
No sons, send drones. What looks like innovation is often just demographic necessity: shrinking societies automate, aging ones dehumanize war. Warfare without children isn’t moral progress – it’s population math.
If one side has overwhelming conventional air power, there are no effective ways for humans to launch or control drones, at least in their current technological iteration. Not yet, anyway. Your statement might be way too premature.
And Ukraine is at the front line of using this. This alone should be reason enough to assist them. The knowledge they are acquiring is invaluable.
Soviets are not good enough to create Sea, Land nor Air dominance *unmannedness is a new challenge, but we're on a different level*
IMO the unique factors of this war, Russias incompetence and Ukraines creativity and absolute desire to survive with uneven resources are over exaggerating the fure of combat sans soldier a little. It's still a window and drones are the future, but we aren't there yet.