Su-57 Stealth Fighter: News #9

I think they are testing PDE for turning the UMPK into a really cheap cruise missile.

I think a lot of countries are going to make that mistake... I suspect China is probably about the only country with AI that is advanced enough to start thinking about such things, but equally AI is going to be needed on the modern battlefield because technology has reached a level where you can have millions of ground and air and sea targets all moving around at once that need to be detected and properly IDed and checked out and then challenged and perhaps destroyed. A drone unit launching 10 drones in the path of an enemy ground force with 200 vehicles and 500 soldiers... you might upset them a little but you can't stop such a big force with such a tiny pin prick. A drone unit with 5,000 suicide drones that automatically find their own target and are stacked in launch tubes ready to fire that has say 100 recon drones operating at 50km altitude scanning the ground for targets with optics and IIR and Lidar and MMW radar sensors and allocates suicide drones to attack enemy targets as they are found and IDed as hostile. You could devastate the enemy force with half a dozen men... but of course the enemy will have their own drones and drone defences and their own artillery and air power etc etc. wrote:

I don't think it has to be that complicated. For example, if you have an armoured brigade approaching, you can launch 5-10 recon and targeting drones that are actually man operated. They will start designating the targets as the troops launch waves of drones towards the target. Each designation has a geolocation, goes through a basic job allocation, is sent to a drone (or 2) and they navigate towards the coordinates, and ride the beam home. THe recon drone records the hit and then picks a new target, the backup drone gets a new job and alters course and on and on.