MQ28A Ghost bat was not selected in USA Skyborg programme only Valkyrie and Anduril drones did. think Ghost bat did not because is Australian tech and only will be built in Australia making harder for replacement and parts..
@@nedkelly9688 Boeing left the Skyborg programme.. Partnered up with Australia and now the MQ-28 is being evaluated as a NGAD wingman option and with the option to be built in the USA under the AUKAS Agreement that has now been expanded to include sharing of proprietary military tech. Would still need the AUS Government tick of approval but all Aussie companies working on the MQ-28 are contracted out by the AUS Government. The AUS government has the rights to the end product and technology. We will see how this plays out.
@@nedkelly9688the next major war is fought out of Australia - like Britain in WW2 - so the parts and manufacturing are going to be needed down here. You’ve just put an ocean in the way from where they’ll be needed. I’d say the real reason is U.S. lobbyists can’t scrape as much cream off an Australian program.
Australia MQ28A Ghost bat been testing crewed and uncrewed since 2021 and just anounced by Australian Defense minister is acceleration of block ii version a top secret never seen before model that is bigger and carries weapons will be in service with RAAF 2025.. that means fully operational in RAAF, not just testing and lines up with RAAF Commander interview 3 years ago stating the version we saw was just a test bed for the AI and airframe would hold up in real life flight conditions.. Ghost bat designed and engineered by Aussies with Australian AI. drone swarm capabilities also. Ghost bat was in USA Skyborg programme and also show you are bad at your jounalism...
These drones would make the perfect close air defence on the battlefields of the future. Imagine for each 10Km of the front line, there will be one small runway with a sqadrone of these drones, in combination with one arrow 3 starter, one iron dome battery and some Phalanx C-RAM or Mantis stations. Nothing what flies in the air could pass through that air defence.
Australia built MQ28A Ghost bat to land and take off from small runways and said can use it on small roads with very few crew needed to service it, ideal for Asia Pacific areas if war broke out..
Well they need to be faster and mid air refuel .. What good is a loyal wingman if it can't keep up with an F-22 during super cruise or an F-35 during supersonic scramble into battle .. So far what i have seen is to slow ... Still good to see development .. However speed is it's shortfall ..
lol jets do not always cruise at supersonic speeds, so your comment is pretty bad. Australia built MQ28A Ghost Bat to perform high risk missions on it's own fully autonomous and does not need a manned jet to do it...
@@nedkelly9688 Lol ... I always know I'm talking to an idiot when they start a comment with "LOL" The loyal wingman program is not to do what the globalhawk and other drones are already doing .. The Loyal wingman is supposed to be a sacraficial wingman behind the F-35 . Getting in the way of S-400 and s-500 surface to air misslile batteries . It was originally my suggestion so i find it comical that you have the gall to try correct me when the concept was mine ... "LOL".....
@@whya2ndaccount check you out sir. When you get in a position to be able to, you probably will. Generally Majors /SO2s and above, come their last posting, if it's anywhere around procurement, will be in bed with defence companies. Source. I've worked in defence for 20 years.
Uhhhhhh, I don't know about this as a wing man... Maybe as a flying bomb delivery agent. AI is not intelligent. It is simply a collection of instructions and it is only as good as those instructions. The problem is that humans are innovative. When presented with a new problem, we poke and prod- and find the weak spot. Not only that, in modern combat a wing man is supposed to fly on the senior pilots wing. He's there to keep his head on a swivel, aware of the battle space while his senior focuses on the target. AI can't do that and may respond in radically unpredictable ways to new situations. Don't expect AI wing men anytime soon. And remember that no computer, regardless of how great the software is, thinks. To compare it to human thought, much less animal thought, is ridiculous. "Artificial Intelligence" is just a snappy marketing term. AI will greatly change the world, but it won't replace humans anytime soon- especially where adaptability is needed. In warfare, the one who adapts better usually wins. I mean look at Ukraine. Here you have a country fighting for its life against a much larger foe. But Ukraine has adapted new technologies- and stopped Russia in its tracks. The scary part of AI is what people might do with it. I don't speak of slaughter bots like in Terminator. But governments are embracing AI to do all sorts of things detrimental to freedom. AI itself is neutral. Right now, everything I just wrote is being analyzed by an AI program- and added to my profile. That's truly frightening.
@@MachdaleLemish Oh no, I assure you, I used the outdated technology of a mind. As an IT professional, I operate behind the mask of AI and actually know what it is. Have no fear friend of AI- but of those using it. That is where the true terror lives.
@notme9976 Indeed. Worked in the defense industry as IT. There are things you can't imagine- stuff from the 1950's is still in use. It's amazing what a simple radio antenna can be used for. And AI will and indeed has changed the nature of warfare. While it will definitely enhance the human presence on the battlefield, it will never replace it. The use of an "AI wing man" will certainly be implemented as a missile or weapon carrying platform. But replacing a pilot? Never. All you have to do is try something the AI is not programed for- and it won't know how to react. But if it is following a pilot next to it, it could be very useful indeed. But as I mentioned before, AI is not intelligent. It does not think even at the level of an animal, much less a man. It does not think at all. And until someone invents a computer that acts like a brain, sort of like Data from Star Trek, there will be no artificially intelligent machines. But the real threat lies in what corporations and governments can do with it- aye, there's the rub. RU-vid is filled with fake AIs saying they want to kill us. Wrong, it is the corporations and governments of the world that want to control us. Killer I is just a distraction to prevent people from realizing what AI really is and can be used for.
@@ZombieGrandpa Sorry lil kid have you not seen USA AI F16 has outperformed human pilots in combat, yes AI is limited but with target recognition and tracking plus programme how to dog fight AI can perform very well autonomously and again going on Ukraine has adapted new technolgies in warfare. look back to 2020 why did Ukraine not use drones in war.. ohh because we gave them the technology. us West have been developing drones for warfare for years before Ukraine war. Kurks airbase attack was Australian cardboard box drones. are 4 Australian drones in Ukraine war with fully AI and drone swarm AI
@@nedkelly9688 ??? Tell me friend, who made the F16 AI drone video, hmmmmm? Was it made by an independent body of investigators? Or was it made by the manufacturer, using only the best shots where the drone outperformed a pilot? And who hired the pilot to spar with the drone? WHY IT WAS THE MANUFACTURER! Surprise, surprise. But the secret is, there is a man telling the aiding the drone while it fights- but they don't show you that. The AI is handling many things, but somewhere in the loop is a man and his input. But that's not in the video is it? There's an old saying in journalism- "Never trust a man with a book for sale." That's because people want their book to sell, so they stretch the truth- a lot. And there's another old saying in sales- "Sell the sizzle, not the steak." Why? Because sales people always lie. Used car salesmen came up with signs that say things like, "50,000 actual miles" when the car has over 100,000. AI will change warfare for sure- already has. But it will NEVER replace the man in the cockpit. A man does not follow rote instructions- he improvises, he adapts, he overcomes. When he follows rote instructions, you get the Russian and Chinese armies. NK too- meat waves. I know AI, I work in the field. And while I can tell you that having one of these AI enhanced planes may be a great boon- it won't replace pilots. Now as to Ukraine, THEY are teaching US when it comes to drones- and the world is realizing they have no good way to stop improvised asymmetrical drone warfare- invented in Ukraine. I happen to know about it, because I am working with a group that's learning from Ukraine and trying to aid Ukraine with new drones. Can't say more than that, but the way asymmetrical drone warfare got started was some young men, kids really, said to somebody, "Hey I use to fly FPV drones before I was drafted. How about we strap some C4 on an FPV and crash it into the Russians?" And that's exactly what they did. The Ukrainians adapted, they improvised, they overcame. True, the US and the West have drones up the wazoo. But they are all quite expensive and therefore limited in number. Especially USA. But the Ukrainians were the ones that FIRST used cheap, off the shelf drones in asymmetrical warfare. They showed the world how you defeat MASSIVE AMOUNTS of Russian armor- with shoestrings and bailing wire. That did not come from the West- it came from Ukraine. And it has the West shaking in their boots, afraid the next war we get into will get our armor destroyed at an alarming rate. Drones are cheap, they fly low, they don't show up on radar. What would one drone do if it raided a US airbase right now in the USA? We have no active defense against them. What would happen to a F35 that had a nade dropped on it? How many hundreds of millions of dollars destroyed? What if a drone with a RPG attached smacked the weak spot on an Abrams stored at an Army depot? How does AI stop somebody from doing that? And what if instead of trying to fight in the air against AI jets, the enemy simply blows them up on the field with cheap, off the shelf, commonly available drones? The West simply has no all around, 24/7/365 way to protect against drones. Drones are the new Molotov cocktail- cheap, everywhere and any fool can fly one. And AI will never stop that. We in the US and the West are building weapons to stop technologically advanced, "near peer" enemies. But instead we should be figuring out how to defeat an enemy who is using what amount to bows and arrows. Mark my words, AI won't stop the next Vietnam...
@@PeterLGଈ True, but whats the point? Mission not accomplished. The drones would have to be good as human piloted jets and used the same way. So make the F-35 into a drone. At least the pilot won't die.
@@TheBooban have you looked at the specs on the drones mentioned? They are big and fast, not the prop-driven ones we're used to seeing. They effectively ARE a fighter jet without the human and their necessary support systems.
