Drones and the Future of War | People and Power 

It's still crazy to me that essentially a toy airplane has changed war forever

Such technology had been used in Ethiopia's northern region, Tigray in a war that killed 1M people. So indeed drones are highly destructive. They were from UAE, Turkey and Iran.

I have been flying drones for a few years now. I get a thrill from the altitude and freedom to explore my planet in a safe and environmentaly manner than other modes. It is so sad we have to find yet another way to invoke pain and suffering by this means. Heck, if we want to wage war with drones, then let's be competitive about it and let the best drones win while we all drink a beer together and watch it all play out on TV. What a dream that would be compared to what is really happening today all over our beautiful planet.

If AI is bad because weapons should be "meaningfully controlled", how do you meaningfully control a landmine? Keep to a workable treaty on mines and then come back to me bout AI.

This was the first thing that came to my mind a few years ago when I saw drones for the first time, I knew that there would be trouble for the world in the future, first of all, it was clear that its military value would be discovered quickly, when I told my friends this way, they didn't take me seriously, they saw me as a toy to take photos and videos.

Not enough synchronicity between ground and satellite systems and the drones, we need an AI as an intermediatory. Then you'll see a more effective coordinated use of the drones.

Tasking a drone swarm to kill everything within a geographical “kill box” is the ultimate manifestation of this issue. It’s a scary thought.

The use of drones have revolutionized warfare, and because of drones we will see a quicker development of laser and energy weapon systems to engage the drones simply because missiles and weapons, like that, will not be economical. If you think about it, the simple use of inexpensive drones could become a missile defense system, defeating a multimillion dollar missile.

Autonomous machines don't "make their own decisions about whether or not to kill", any more than a phone decides to alert you to an incoming call, or an escalator chooses to take you up to the next floor.

An eye-opening program. It's almost always wars and fighting which bring about innovation and changes. It has reached new heights -- the question is whether conventional means such as international treaties can make any difference to prevent atrocities?

This was a superb production in all aspects. Thank you for this video.

Drones will become man’s favorite toy to man’s scariest reaper, it sort of makes me understand how people felt when aircraft first became armed and took away from the romantic scenic aspect during war times but also aircraft will always remain an eternal beauty , it would be fun to reverse engineer these things

How are drones more unethical than artillery and missiles? What is the difference ethically when one party ignores the Geneva Convention and commits "illegal" acts such as Russia attacking the civilian infrastructure and civilians directly. With no consequences to the perpetrators. While the academics and politicians discuss fine points and moral considerations and treaties, innocent people die. The US spends huge amounts to reduce collateral damage. The opponents in recent conflicts target the people that the US tries to protect. Both State and non State actors have access to the technology. Work must proceed to set boundaries especially for State actors with treaties and moral codes, and to develop counter measures. Restricting the commercial technology is needed, and consequences for State actors who flaunt the codes must be swift and decisive. The bombs used on Japan saved hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides, and resulted in the fear of use that has continued to today. AI drones will not have the same effects. We must get control today, and have counter measures to mitigate threats from rogues.

Drones in warfare are the Genie that can't be put back into the lamp! The sight of a Main Battle Tank (MBT) being stopped by an inexpensive, modified leisure drone dropping an Anti-Personnel Hand Grenade into an open crew hatch is hugely impressive and effective to the Defenders. The ability to engage enemy infantry at distance, before they reach the Defenders protects those Defenders from having to fight building to building.

Now that civilian owned drones are being armed, Will they classified as a gun or something similar, or even banned from public ownership.

As a counter to this disturbing trend, there is a huge opportunity for a developing defensive drones. They can use AI to detect and destroy enemy drones.

very good journalism. keep up the good work.

When you consider the precision of 100 drones in a Fourth of July presentation to create a 3D image of three fighter jets over Tampa Bay you can understand the capability of an aircraft carrier converted into a drone platform launching a thousand drones at once. Sun Tzu never envisioned such in his book The Art of War.

Thank you Poland! We are all in this together! ❤️❤️💙💛💙💛🇱🇷🇱🇷

Excellent video of our near future and you're dead right - "We humans always seem to get better at killing ourselves" ☹

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That drone that he threw was insanely awesome.

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EMP the future of modern war 👍

The drone stuff was good but the discussion on winning a war or the strategy of war was very weak .

I don't understand why they insist that human have a higher moral ground than the machines. Hurting somebody and knowing what it means is more imoral than a blind machine executing a procedure to hurt someone.

15:55 now try telling this to Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc. Welcome to the era of killer bots, fellow humans

What AI can do? Simply go away from danger jone.

Thanks for the doco.

Right on, we are humans after all, very efficient at destroying but not efficient enough to built, specially good healthy relationships with our neighbors around the world! GOD SAVE US ALL!

It looks like a perspex glass maze could be a counter to FPV drone. What do you think?

21:50 home-on-jam drone to counter this type of jammer.

We are watching the military industrial complex… how terrible

As new tools,including banned tools,will always be used & be used by bad folks/enemies,not using new tools,including banned tools,is silly.The fact that military aircrafts’ main role is reconnaissance shouldn’t be a surprise,as reconnaissance was the original role of military aircraft.Crafts may change but craft roles don’t change as much.

Excellent repoting

I really think the Iranians made a big mistake providing drones to Russia. Ukraine is not feeding Israel all that information.

I was searching for fishing drones but it brought me here to killer drones man I don’t won’t to blow my fish outta the water

Drones used on civilians? Don't give the CIA any ideas.

God bless both countries, Jesus doesn't pick and choose , Let's pray they stop the war and turn to God.

Raise the bar autonomously in dealing with traitors in Ukraine

I can tell every time the utility company or anytime a drone flys over my property my squirrel dog alerts every time.

Such irony that something deadly would be colored yellow and pink, like kid's toys.

23:46 - Countries that are more interested in effect than ethics 👌 could almost entirely outsource their combat to machine learning or AI.

God help the Gen Z Generation they will fight these wars.

Imagine living in a world where the global system doesn't work for the human spirit.

I’m interested in learning about the power of the little bombs. Some of these explosives seem like they pack a punch and they have to be light right? I mean a tiny drone flying with weight wouldn’t that drain the battery?

Given that I currently question whether Ukraine's allies are having to rethink which artillery and ammunition Ukraine needs in light of Elon Musk pulling out some Starlink GPS support previously provided, I'm wondering about what tech designa are focusing on and accomplishing diversified ways&means for location targeting (detection plus responsive actions). What updated info can your offer re this? Re banning China-based DJI drones: International private sector sales will simultaneously make drones available for use in armed conflicts, but ceasing all private sales makes no sense. The military will find sources anyway. I agree banning DJI's private sales shouldn't occur, except for ones that could acquire data through walls (infrared & enhanced acoustic tech) and broadcast sensitive Nat'l security info to enemy forces, ... &/or support the weight of "accessory" devices that could perform similar functions (or worse). For better & worse, however, private sector delivery services are driving technology toward weight-bearing UAVs, thus military cyber-intel tech will ultimately have to keep ahead of privately owned UAVs long term. What the U.S. Congress-members who allocate resources must learn is how crucial educating our population about all cyber-security related advances is (and will continue to be) for the collective security of our Nation and it's allies. Any country that feels it needs military defense capabilities now needs ~ "cyber-armies", yet the U.S. continues to under-invest in educating our citizenry (and, worse, suffers from the influence of those who intentionally thwart efforts to educate the general public so that they can profit from the easier manipulation of voters). Very short-sighted, given that even massive accumulations of wealth cannot sculpt a sustainable "bubble" for their descendants' habitats vs preserving and improving the hard-earned liberties currently available. Sigh.

Ethical questions? now that's a joke son!! Murder is murder !!

What will happen if some countries like Iran ,Russian or China don’t follow rules about killing robots 🤖 and implement it on battlefield 🙈

Though I envision drone warfare as more of a nightmare than as lower-casualty "dream warfare", I understand that others' drone uses mandate that we stay competitive. We need to ramp up cyber education en-masse (& funding thereof) beyond just UAV engineering, production using domestically-acquired (per country) materials, and applications, but also related diversification of methods for detecting and targeting specific coordinates. Annnnd, as if that weren't enough, any "cyber-army" must thwart attempts at proximal and distant hacking (incl data retrieval, data swapping, destructive sabotage, imbedding code, turning on built-in geolocation +/- audio-visual +/- broadcasting functions, Etc.) for ALL digital technology with abuse potential throughout our country (+/- cooperate internationally to disband coordinated networks of offenders). Then there's the need for oversight to limit abuses of such power. Nontrivial! ... Btw, have you heard the Ted-Talk RU-vid video wherein Elon Musk enthusiastically suggests how convenient it would be to integrate his NeuraLink Company's neural lace (hardwired into customers' heads) with the IoT (Internet of Things), likely controllable via his Starlink Company's global network of low-orbiting satellites?

The concept of prohibiting autonomous lethal robots is completely fantasy, it relies on a misunderstanding of the power of intergovernmental treaties like the Geneva convention. The reason we can ban poison gas in war, for example, is that it is not an effective weapon. Gas is horrible, traumatic, but hard to control, and relatively easy to counter. The prohibition of gas works because it's use might cause casualties but after the initial surprise does not solve a military 'problem' or create a real strategic advantage. It is not an effective breakthrough weapon like a tank. This is something in common with the enforceable elements of the Geneva convention: prohibition of stuff like torture that is not effective, cruelty that does not create advantage to the user is banned. Drones, and autonomous weapons create a meaningful advantage as demonstrated in multiple conflicts. This means they can't be banned, it is futile to try and suicidal for any nation to support the notion.

skynet, russianet and usanet are ready to take control

You can probably imagine a supply line completely automated; from mining equipment, to transport, to processing, to manufacture. What if this was all done by an AI system? What if that AI system decided it didn't want to treat humans like pet doggies; but instead treat them like pests like lice or termites. How long would it take the automated systems to kill every human on earth? Not too long?

The ethical question is "do you wish to win or not?" The next war will be won by numbers of high quality cheap effective drone (weapons).

The weast has always been the enimy of humanity and civilization

They showed a SUICIDAL DRONE smashed a DUMMY without a HELMET, why don't they showed how it can smash a dummy's head with a war helmet?

That's the thing bout war.There are a lot of innocent people and children who die.Its really sad that we are not advanced enough to take out just the ones we are after.

Taiwan announced a variety of mass-produced military drones. 1. "Taiwanese version of the switchblade suicide drone", which is exquisite in shape and can be carried by a single soldier. It weighs only 2.5 kg, is 60 cm long, has a range of more than 10 km, and can stay in the air for more than 15 minutes. It can withstand six winds and weather resistance Excellent, optical and infrared thermal image sensing, the warhead has more explosives than the U.S. Switchblade 300, high-explosive and armor-piercing warheads can be selected, and the AI ​​artificial intelligence function can assist the attacker to identify the target, and then make a decision to strike. The attack method can choose autonomous attack explosion or remote-controlled explosion. The configured high-explosive warhead has dual optional attack functions-impact explosion and air induction explosion, which are used to attack high-threat and high-value enemy vehicle targets, or attack enemy drones in the air. Air induction explosion, in the trench where the enemy soldiers are captured, dive to the low-altitude induction air bomb above the trench, expand the killing of the enemy hiding in the trench, or capture the enemy drone in the air and sense the explosion near it to destroy the enemy drone. The "Taiwan Version Switchblade Suicide Drone" is the world's first switchblade suicide drone capable of attacking both ground and air targets. 2. "Cardinal III Variable Rotor Reconnaissance and Attack UAV", the flight and aerodynamic design is similar to the U.S. military V22 Osprey helicopter. Its variable rotor can enable the Cardinal III to quickly take off and land directly and perform long-term rotation and stagnation for aerial reconnaissance and observation of the battle situation Achievements, range 30 kilometers, stay in the air for one hour, perform missions around the clock, equipped with optical infrared detection equipment and laser ranging calibration, with electronic anti-countermeasures and electronic warfare functions, artificial intelligence AI automatic identification and judgment function networked two-way The data link automatically transmits the GPS position information of the enemy target and the results of the battle to our artillery positions. It can carry high-explosive bombs and multiple networked battles, automatically assigning targets to attack enemy targets in groups. Or networked as a low-cost and simple-function loitering ammunition to guide and attack enemy targets, similar to the US military switchblade suicide drone paired with a puma drone for precision strike operations. Cardinal III is the world's first military variable-rotor reconnaissance and guidance UAV. 3. "Kite-2 UAV", artificial intelligence AI automatic identification function, guidance and control distance of more than 300 kilometers, up to 16 hours in the air, equipped with optical/infrared multi-functional sea search radar, can be used on land or on any ship Launching, with electronic anti-countermeasures and electronic warfare functions, automatic planning range and return, can mount multiple 2.75-inch high-explosive rockets and small guided missiles for long-distance and long-distance sea and coastal reconnaissance and combat, the most sophisticated Medium-range and long-stay air reconnaissance and attack drones. 4. The Jianxiang anti-radiation suicide drone with a range of 1,100 kilometers has been in service. It uses space satellites for remote control and has electronic countermeasures and electronic warfare functions. It is dedicated to searching and attacking enemy land radar stations and sea ship radar systems. "The newly revised Jianxiang anti-radiation suicide drone" is equipped with artificial intelligence AI image automatic recognition and infrared heat induction discrimination function, which can filter out real and fake land radar stations and sea ship radar systems, and only attack real radar systems . The "Transformed Sword and Flying Drone" has been changed to "Long-range Suicide Loitering Ammunition (Loitering Ammunition)", adding artificial intelligence AI automatic target identification function, increasing the amount of explosives, and performing long-distance decapitation missions on enemy strategic targets. 5. "Second-generation Tengyun long-range strategic reconnaissance UAV", the Taiwanese version of the MQ-9 UAV, the unarmed reconnaissance cruise ceiling: 15 kilometers, and the full-loaded ammunition combat ceiling: 7.5 kilometers. Unarmed life time: 28 hours, mounted ammunition life time: 14 hours. Unarmed cruising range: 5,926 kilometers. Combat radius with full ammunition: 1,852 km. Rockets capable of carrying 1.7 metric tons, Tianjian-1 modified land-sea dual-purpose Tianjian missiles, and air-launched Hsiung-2 anti-ship missiles. The patrol head of the Tianjian-1 improved missile integrates radar, thermal imagery, eye sighting and other fire control systems. Attack enemy fighter planes and cruise missiles in the air, or use it urgently to attack enemy sea ship radar, land radar and decapitate targets. For the part of the sea attack mission, it will mount an air-launched Yuji anti-ship missile with a range of 250 kilometers. 6. "Large long-range strategic unmanned attack aircraft", with large ammunition load, long range, invisible and stealthy shape, electronic countermeasures and electronic warfare functions, remote control using space satellites, and low-altitude penetration. It is a strategic type Unmanned attack aircraft weapons, because they are sensitive, are currently kept secret and will not be made public. Taiwan's chip technology ranks first in the world, the information and communication electronics industry leads the world, and the precision machinery and component industries are developed (the output value ranks third in the world). These strengths are used to support the manufacture of military drones. Taiwan has learned from Ukraine's experience in using Starlink satellites to protect the country. In addition to Taiwan's existing 16 satellites in space, the Taiwan Space Center plans to launch 100 self-made B5G low-orbit communication satellites (also for military purposes) by 2030 to build its own Taiwan version of the Starlink satellite system.

Wow God Bless Ukrania🇺🇦

If you are able to jam their control frequency, they are useless.

Have you not learn anything from the movie terminator where AI turn on humans.

8:50 I call BS on these numbers and illogical garbage! More propaganda. I mean, really AJ?!

In Ukraine the Javelin was praised and it is indeed a very effective weapon but a drone fitted with an armor piercing round (like the Ukrainians improvised) is in many ways vastly superior. For one it’s about 1000 times cheaper than a javelin missile. Target doesn’t need to be in the line of sight. Which in turn won’t give away a soldiers position. It also has better range and can seek out targets. It’s essentially a poor man’s predator drone and Hellfire missile. Will be interesting to see what counter measures come about, but I have a feeling being infantry in todays and tomorrows battlefield will be quite deadly and spur development nations to move more towards robots to play an infantry role?

The history of mankind has been driven by advances of military weapons. Arrows beat spears, bullets beat arrows, etc..

Black Ops 2 has become reality.

Since their movement is slow, you can smash them with lasers.

It's foolish to rail against "killer robots" as being an uncontrolled danger. Consider first the wildly uncontrolled dangers of artillery, mines, area bombing, and other tech that has been around for a century. If anything, automation will improve accuracy and decrease collateral effects.

It's a mistake to say that the US didn't "win" the war in Afghanistan. They got exactly what they wanted; hundreds of billions of dollars in defense spending, real-world weapons testing, and valuable military experience. It's foolish to assume that they intended to covert the country into a prosperous Christian democracy; it was merely a test range for military development exercises.

Expert assessment👍 as always Rory.

There will come a time when someone with power will not care who dies for their gain.

We can't even figure out a proper full self driving, so we should keep our hands off full self killing.

What is a Cruz Missile?

At least an A.I. Drone just kills you quick, mostly painless as it will be a perfect effiicent killer without the will nor need to go on a hateful vengance spree doing rape and torture on you it will not hold grudges, jealousy be judgmental, to be honest i think i would trust an ai robot over the government and people. Humans are the ones who are the ones to be fearful of

"war is a racket "

Let's go Jack!

Dead end. Think I'll work on spiritual understanding instead.

If the twelve year old over the way is any thing to go by the future micro drone operators are already operating. To the drone buster thingy a per programme way points gets you to target by on board computer with Faraday cage. Cured add scans etc.....police need to knock drones down why? The first?

When will victims of drone attacks get justice? Sad state

we need a.i medic stretchers that solders can roll on slap the home button

Drones are not new. Germany was using drones in world war 2 to target British ships 😉

That "disconcerting future" looks pretty awesome. I'll throw into the development fund to free us from politicians and "student activists."

An machine could become independent from the master if they become program to be exist....

1:36 Adolf Hitler, is that you?

8:10 "despite the sanctions" hahaha dude said it as if he really doesn't know how business works.

We need to find more reasons not to fight the intelligence and weapon systems that are being worked on and exist are species killers or worse.

"What ethical questions that may raise"...really, it is war...what is ethical about war?

Is sad that AI have been overhyped all over the industries and even in military. Their true effectiveness is clouded with mistery and uncertainty and here comes FPV drone that already prove to be a real useful war weapon out of nowhere without any military spending of development 😂

I wasn't shock talking about shock the world your world and America/ Europe

Surprised they haven't load bio weapons onto those drones.

Drone warfare will be the future, they will be used for everything, they need drones that can sweep for mines and bombs and mark them on a map, we need drones made that can detonate these areas and most importantly we need drones that can clear buildings and eliminate the threats, we need them that can autonomously clear or watch any area and let you know immediately when it sees an enemy

Be prepared... its coming.. those who dont care about human rights will use this.

Let’s petition to stop the killing 🥴

Can drones stop the second sun over London ?

Apparently the person advocating treaties is delusional to the point of stupidity. As nice as it would be if everyone could agree and follow such a treaty; that thought is at best wishful thinking. That assumes other Nations actually value life as you do. Look at how callously the Soviet Union is throwing away the lives of its own people. You seriously believe they would do more than play lip service to such a treaty? And where exactly does that leave us 10 years down the line after other Nations have been advancing such technology secretly. I mean if those Nations ultimately defeat us in War what use is such a treaty anyway? She obviously has never thought much on the concept of Pandora’s Box. And what about Nations who refuse to agree to such a treaty anyway? Treaties and laws all sound nice; but they ignore the human condition. Especially when such tech is so cheap and easy to manufacture. It’s the new Colt. The great equalizer.

We are doomed.

Jamming what😂, these drones are like fire and forget missiles, once a gps locked a target RF jamming is not going to make any changes to it lol

Is that ok?

So... next we learn to hack the enemy drones and make them kill thier master automatically.

When call of duty meets real life

War and ethics in the same sentence?