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Sometimes I wonder what they are not showing us, this aircraft is Probably ten to 20 years behind their current technology.

So many questions I can answer lol. I worked on these as a technical engineer. Firstly, they aren’t flown with an Xbox controller (but they can be taxied around with a controller very similar to one). There are no drones that make autonomous weapon use decisions. That is purely science fiction. And military commanders are unanimously extremely insistent that there is always a human making that decision. There are Automatic Takeoff and Landing Systems. (ATLS) that allow the aircraft to takeoff and land without direct control. These systems are not perfect though. they have to be monitored in case they make bad decisions or decide they cannot handle it on their own.

They didn't even touch on when you network the drones to all work together. You get a handful of drones in the air and you have access to a nice 360 view of the terrain. Meaning any drone equiped with weapons could have a real time visual on targets not in their line of sight. Allowing them to act as soon as there is an opportunity. If you can add an AI to manage the drones and remove the human element from that equation. The potential reaction speed becomes extremely scary.

Authoritarian countries are always going to bleed heavily in wars. Too top down, too many yes men, not enough internal competition to innovate, to criticize mistakes, etc. Russia in Ukraine is just the latest example of that.

The U.S. military is interested in keeping modern adversaries limited to self defense within their own borders, they already won that battle globally.

I remember in my business ethics class we had a thought experiment about the difference between stabbing someone to death, shooting someone close range, sniping them from a distance, using a drone, or just ordering the death of someone. Net result is the same, so what's the difference? IMO the further you detach yourself from the cause and effect of your actions, the more likely you are to be okay with doing horrible things. At least back in the day, leaders of empires were actually in battle with their fellow soldiers.

Drone warfare appears to me to be the future of modern warfare. They're just too damn effective in combat situations to not be. You can look no further than what's going on in Ukraine to see for yourselves the true effectiveness of these weapons, with the pinnacle of their success being attributed to the sinking of Russia's flagship warship, the Moskva. What's even better is the fact that the controllers of the drones aren't even putting themselves in harm's way to carry out these missions. All you really have to be is a pro gamer at this sort of thing and you'll be qualified to control one of these.

There're some fighter programs that are looking at slaving drones to a host fighter jet to act as support. The SANDBOXX channel has a bunch of great videos on military tech, especially drones and the F-35. You guys should check them out.

This further adds to my theory that people keep seeing these/prototypes and thinking of them of UFOs. Yes, even military pilots who see stuff on radar or whatever. Military has what they call compartmentalization.

you should do the joe rogan podcast with cmdr fravor and the tic tac UFO. if there was ever a reasonable argument for aliens, that'd be it

When Dave was talking about the helicopter going down he was referring to the incident that Marcus Luttrell survived, later made into a movie called Lone Survivor starring Mark Wahlberg

I worked for a multi-billion dollar plant food and plant medicine company in the central valley. One day they brought in a crew that shot videos of the facility using drones for the company's website. About a half hour after that crew was finished filming and left I notice something about 15 feet up above where I was filling 250 gallon totes with some sort of plant food ir medicine. It was a drone about 15 inches long but I could only make out half of it because it was in like a Predator stealth mode. It wasn't like the movies it was like a plastic bottle without the shine. When I noticed it it moved quickly a few feet over and I could make out the other half of craft then it rapidly moved again and I lost it. I tried telling my coworkers but no one believed me but I'm convinced that drone crew was committing corporate espionage. That patents that company has are worth millions and millions here in the agricultural capital of the world.

A few of these shown in the video were built 5 minutes down the road from my house on Long Island. They do some crazy shit there. It's like a mini Area 51 lol.

America really saw Starcraft Carriers and said " Yes, we want that in our arsenal". Only a matter of time before we have drone carriers spitting out a swarm of drones.

I wouldn't doubt that most UFO sightings the past decades were really just weapons testing and new jets lol

would be nice if they could make drone choppers that can fly into a battle, pick up a wounded soldier, and fly them out quickly.

The future is here boys. Stuff I read about in sci-fi books as a child in the 70s that were written in the 60s are now used every day on Earth.

Funny thing is the drone pilots wear flight suits, get paid for flying hours, get war ribbons for flight combat. My buddy in the Air Force is a sensor operator for the predator drone.

The X-47 project cost $813 million total (almost a billion) before being scrapped. They are not a billion per drone. US Navy is using MQ-4C Triton and RQ-4A which cost around $180 million each in 2019. And for you Brits....the MQ-4C has a Rolls Royce engine as does King Charles.

With no human component it can take turns that a pilot cannot. This gives it the maneuvering ability against a piloted aircraft in combat.

The first focus of the Navy for the carrier launched drones is for refueling aircraft aloft, not for conducting offensive combat missions. Those will probably come after they have more experience with them. Back in June of this year, Boeing released a photo of an MQ-25 T1 drone while it was transferring fuel to an F/A-18 Super Hornet. That was on June 4, 2022. Interesting that they didn't mention the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton. That's a serious maritime ISR platform for the Navy. High altitude, long endurance.

Before my last deployment to Iraq even though I'm a Infantry grunt, the Infantry tries to be self-sufficient. Meaning the Infantry tries to accomplish every mission without assistance from other MOS's or branches as much as possible. So I got selected to go to UAV pilot school to fly the RQ-11 Raven-B, which is a much smaller "drone" but the whole system still costs $250,000. Also since I had to get a Secret security clearance I was also selected to be CoIST(Company Intelligence Support Team) and also get sent off to the CoIST training as well. There's a point to this... Since I was the Intel guy for my unit I had access to the intelligence gathered from the real intel guys. Anyway something strange was happening. Somehow it seemed like the insurgents knew exactly our and allied troop movements and knew where the MQ-9 Reaper drones were heading to. Come to find out Somehow the insurgents were able to hack and intercept the video feed from the MQ-9 Reaper drones. They were using our own equipment/weapon against us and without anyone knowing. Luckily they weren't able to take control of them or fire it's missiles, only passively intercept video feeds. The Airforce quickly fixed the issue. Don't ever underestimate your enemy. We seem to have a tendency to learn that the hard way. The only people that think Iraqis are stupid dirt farmers are the ones that never deployed to OIF, never left the wire/FOB or actually fought against them or they're simply total idiots themselves. I've never seen a people do so much with so little. If you were stuck on a deserted island you'd want to have an Iraqi with you, somehow he/she would figure out a way off or rescue.

3:53 feel free to ask me questions about it. I’ll answer what I’m allowed. Lol. (Proud of my hubby’s work on this).

The drones are manned remotely, though its possible some of its automated since jet airliners can be taken off and landed with the flight computer.

Fella who comes in the pub and was Chief of MOD defence procurement for many years recently flew in a fighter jet off a US ship. He said the Jet doesn't kick in until they are off the ship and are only a 100 feet from the sea. He said they drop around 30 feet before the jet kicks in and it was when you're dropping in an aircraft before the Jet kicks in is extremely scary. Obviously. Railway has some great characters. You would never know what he did for a living as he sits with a pint of Guinness but he is a pure gentleman and possibly our only knighted customer.

There’s also a autonomous tanker drone that could also refill the drones.

Just so you know. The country with the second largest military budget is China, and in a year they spend less than the US spends just on Military Bases Outside the US

My husband worked on the X47b Program. We call it his 4th child.

The entire purpose of the x47b drone test is to determine the feasibility of carrier launch for drone use as airborne refueling platforms, and airborne command and control, in a much smaller package

What amazes me is the network communications the military has compared to what you and I have at home or on a cruise ship. Even using Starlink, the lag time of when you or I input a command, the signal goes up to a satellite, is sent back to the receiver and then the command is acknowledged and returned back to me can be thousands of a millisecond. I can't imagine that kind of lag time is an issue with flying drones in a military application. With that being said, the future for commercial use will be exciting to see. Todays GPS used to be a secret military technology.

Ok, he covered it pretty well, I paused as soon as he asked, lol…I got asked that a lot, on our birds and other vids of the time. By people who limited knowledge in both those things. It can look funny as hell, as they barely move a few inches forward, then appear to be changing direction, going backwards, then forwards, holding even, so the blades don’t appear to move for a second or so, then back to barely moving forwards or backwards.

Ok, the slow (looking) rotor blades on helos, os because of frame rate when recording. The less blades they have, 4-2, like the ones I worked on in the USMC, the last of the might two bladed Huey’s and Cobra’s, had much larger/massive rotor blades, as only two, instead of 4, 4 plus, depending on country and make, etc. so they went slower…by a bit, and depending on throttle/power pulled, frame rates can sync up with rotor RPM, and can even make the blades look like they aren’t moving at times, on video…as they frame rate matches the position they are in, very closely, so they barely move from original position, sometimes even look like they are spinning the wrong way, on video. That’s why that happens.

The movie you are thinking of is Lone Survivor. I grew up with one of the heros as my next door neighbor.

Fluctus is an awesome awesome channel that gets footage I’ve never seen before. Great channel for anything military

Terminator's Skynet is here! LOL

i think they are all the off white greyish color to blend in with he sky like clouds from a great distance

Lol that's funny. Ya'll call in a "Chinese burn" over there and we call it an "Indian burn" here in the states.

Military drones always remind me of the movie Toys. Robin Williams movie

Drones will be able to do 20 plus G turns, out turning any other aircraft it's manned!!

I'm sure they'll keep using some drones to help out the ground forces, but as long as it's cheaper to send out a poor kid with a gun than a multimillion dollar drone, they'll keep sending out soldiers. It would take thousands of drones to replace an army, and even the Boston Dynamics robots can't handle stairs and building interiors as well as humans can.

You guys should watch a movie called STEALTH it's about Unmanned Jet that is controlled by A.I and an electrical storm fries it's circuits and it goes rouge, and begins taking on its own missions....It's a pretty movie.

I also think MEDEVAC will greatly benefit from unmanned helicopters. US spending roughly $760,000,000,000 a year on the military. I think China is second with $250,000,000,000 and India is third.

And talking about budgets…well in 2020…we spent what…860-870 billion dollars? Russia spent 60 something billion as far as we could tell…it shows. China spent like 150 billion something in 2020…so yeah…so far on the last bit, like 8-9 months…we’ve given Ukraine a 1/3 of what Russia spent in the whole year of 2020, on their entire defense budget…ahaha. When you put it into that frame of reference…it’s insane how much we do/can spend…and all this released stuff is just about what’s to come out/is fairly well known in general. Us and you Brit’s worked on hypersonics throughout the 60-90’s had them figured out. Multiple systems from infantry based, like dragon launchers, to early dragon on vehicles, and bigger/better versions on vehicles…and fighters/ground attacks. We, US finally gave up on them in programs on the early 90’s…not cause they didn’t work, but because they were too expensive for even us, they did the same thing a good missile with a cheap chemical warhead did, especially highly refined. Cheap, relatively speaking, reliable, effective missiles and warheads, and stealth tech, drones. We and the Brit’s had great hypersonic, kinetic kill missiles back into the 70’s…no explosives on board, but the missile motor, but they were hideously expensive, for what you got. Our chemical warheads can and do intercept in coming hypersonics, lol. So they are mostly a moot point, site they can cause some casualties here and there…but we can mostly stop them, in a war, enough to win, as they waste resources on dumb shit like that. We had manned, piloted rocket/plane things in the 60’s and 70’s that could do Mach 9…with a human flying them, haha…yeah we figured all that out, long, long ago, don’t you worry no body 😏😁

As absolutely amazing as that drone is, can you imagine the terror, destruction, and chaos that a handful of cheap drones like they put together in Ukraine could cause in large urban areas?

Yeah you're right, blokes, that Drones, or even Aircraft for that matter, can't win wars. Why? Aircraft can't Occupy and Hold territory. In Desert Storm (Gulf War I) the Allies spent 4 weeks in an aerial campaign to soften up the Iraqi military and its C&C. But it still had to go in on the ground with troops to take and hold the ground, to some troops disappointment in fact, as they wanted some action, because they trained so hard for it for so long. A good movie to watch on that is Jarhead with Jamie Lee Fox and Josh Hartnet. Details what it was like for the Army to just camp out in the Saudi Arabian desert for months, waiting for action, only to be shown up by the Air Assault, and only being needed for mopping up action that only took 4 days. That quick victory is why we were surprised by the prolonged campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan 10 and 12 years later.

the extraction mission you were talking about is known as extortion 17, sad story, good men were lost that day

Tech will never replace boots on the ground on the battlefield because ground needs to be taken and then held in the face of enemy soldiers and civilian insurgents.

Years ago I was playing call of duty and they had sniper drones in it. Really scary concept

Can't wait until Friday when we in the US can beat England at your own game

Gotta love the US

You should check out the Global Hawk surveillance drone.

No $ for Universal health care, no $ for free lunches for our school Kids, no paid maternity leave but blank checks for weapons of mass destruction! America!!!

And nah, in the near to far future were never fully remove the human element, there’s just gonna be less of them in one area some of the publicly released stuff was to have a pilot/his aircraft linked and roughly controlling up to multiple drones, like controlling the broad formation, of they hold fire/can attack or patrol, etc…then the drone decides the best course of action it needs to take, to do the broader outline of what it’s told to do. Now I don’t know the mix, of told what to do/it figures out stuff on its own, but I imagine it’ll be a decent mix…plus you still need manned assets that can’t be hacked and taken over so easily, stuff like that. And no matter how good drones are, they are never gonna replace the amazing results of well trained, experienced people, in coming up with…creative solutions. Nor will they be as vicious as we can be, when needed, sure the drones will be cold, uncaring, but that’s far from the same, from the warrior spirit and mind set of someone who needs to do a mission no matter what. In an intelligent way. That hopefully preserves there men/assets and themselves, but will use any and all of them, including them selves to accomplish said mission. Like o said. We can be /are vicious, even blood thirsty, at least to an outside perspective that isn’t there at the same moment. Computer logic is indifferent and cold, they don’t the same drove to fight, they aren’t gonna be doing it for their buddies and brothers and sisters to the left and right of em. Now sure, they got a valid place and will definitely supplement, do important work, help save lives…well ours and our Allie’s anyways. But always gonna need people up in jets, and helos still for medivac and close air support…or coming with new ways. On the spot for doing something in combat. Or pulling a trigger. The terrifying part, is when we’ll have to fight someone who has as good of stuff as we do, that’s actually functional and fielded in numbers to matter, which is gonna be a awhile still, unless things go horribly wrong, then it be so much they caught up, it’ll be we slipped back a few notches at least. Drones are just gonna be one more thing you gotta worry about..to an extent, depending on where you are, who you are, who you’re fighting. Those silly little civilian ones they are using over there now, wouldn’t be able to work from our old jamming tech, from well over a decade before I went to Iraq twice and camp bastion once, if we didn’t want them too, our jamming pods would ground them all. So that’s tech from over 3 decades ago from us (US) and most of our bigger Nato Allie’s, that would shut all that crap down over Ukraine including their phones and Wi-Fi, drove through radios, any and all radio/wireless communications but more advanced better stuff. Than either of them have.now fighting our level tech…yeah, that would suck…haha.

Skynet ! has begun lol

That's just USA Navy drones, we have others.

#OfficeBlokeDave Dave, there are NO drones that can decide to engage a target & shoot without human intervention. This level of autonomous AI absolutely does NOT exist.

And of course, whatever the U.S. military allows you to see, they are already way past that technology.

See, there’s drones…and then there’s drones…we don’t so much make drones…as we make full up jets (now) stealth, that work without without a pilot on board, haha. Can be refueled or do refueling in air. Network with each other and all other upgraded, 4th gen and later fighter tech…can also be controlled by the pilot/his aircraft….strike and surveillance as always, but now they and I’m guessing for awhile, our bigger ones can/did do both, so they’re the same, just better, faster, harder to find and kill, longer ranged, etc.

We been using drone ships for a few years or longer

Why don't the landing gear appear to fold reducing drag?

Super Advanced, eh? Just wait until we come out with the Super Duper Advanced drone, only to be outdone by the Super Duper Back-flip Advanced drone.

Already have drone deliveries over here

Why has no one told these gents there's no pilot anywhere flying these....it's AI flown!

I'd say Skynet is ~15 years away. All the pieces are coming together.

Where is the underwater drones the Scuba Scout or the Sub Mariner,ok I just made those up but I'm sure they will design a underwater attack drone sooner or later....

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There are probably more US assets in friendly countries than the countries have themselves, the US paying to defend them so they don't have to. We got your backs and you're welcome. :)

I don't think unmanned tech will take over completely, but I think human soldiers will be far smaller in number as a percentage of any given military as we go on. As for what to shoot if you don't have humans to shoot at, ultimately you're controlling territory and resources. If you cut the enemy from those things, you get closer and closer to ultimate victory.

0:20 must not be so easily glossed over.... do do do doot.

Try envisioning an entire nation of 12 year old Chinese students commanding millions of these over America. Do you like it now?

Hey, I recognize this! So...when are they gonna reveal the Arsenal Bird?

The ones they used on the WTC were much cheaper.

Everything is about to be drones in the future.

There's a few more drones that weren't mentioned here under the US Navy's Skyborg program. Freaky shit

OFFICE BLOKES need to watch Ender's game!

I live near a US Base where these drone pilots are trained. They all look like kids, and probably have a XBox control in their pockets. I was told those are the kind of people they are looking for to pilot the drone because of their video game experience

And what he’s saying at like 15:00 dead on, Russia has a few, super early prototypes that don’t even work mostly roght, of they work at all, and that was before all this…they’re straight back to 70’s and 80’s, tech of the (Soviets) at the time…with a few exemptions, trickling in, china, would be closer in overal R&D but they’ve always been poor copies that barely work, and if they do, are far less capable, just look at their missiles, sore they are pushing hard to catch up, but that takes a stupid amount of money, man hours and failed projects, partial successes and the willpower and funding to see it through. And the need too push hard and stay ahead. Currently we are highest in all those factors. And I don’t care how “cheap” monetarily things are in china, 150 something billion USD isn’t gonna beat over 800 billion in R&D, fielding and maintaining, training and housing troops/equipment, not in a modern war, we’d eat them alive, as they can’t cross the pacific in anyway that matters, we can. That can’t even match us in our old Nimitz Class super carriers, let alone the new ones coming online now…they can’t match in numbers, or capability, let alone aircraft and missiles. Sure they could mess up/sink one CVBGN…one out of seven, but guess what, they’d have no navy after that, what are they goons do? Die as a functional government as we choke them off from the rest of the world, by force, and that’s with no Nato help, haha. With Nato help, it’d happen at least twice as fast. We are the only nation on earth on earth than fight a multi fronted war, and support it, on opposite sides of the globe, literally no one else has the numbers or logistics to be able to do that. And the top of the line equipment, fielded to their entire military…across the planet. Sore there will be a time, sometime, when sadly that isn’t the case…but it’s definitely not now, or the near future.our Air Force with a little Navy and USMC help could grind all of Europe under their boot, while the Navy and USMC, with a tiny amount of Air Force dod the same in the pacific…then anyone who wanted to mess with us. Would have to deal the biggest, meanest blue water fleet to ever exist…then our Army/USMC and NavSpec guys on the ground…and finally of any made here…with over 300 million, probably actually about 400-450 million in reality people who are heavily armed, lots of them vets, with a ton of training and recent experiences…especially with IED training, haha. So yeah have fun. Do you know how many fertilizer plants we have. Just for making citizen use fertilizer? Let alone bigger ones for industrial purposes? I’ll just leave it at that. Lol. Yeah, that’s an unconquerable nightmare for anyone. Our population owns more small arms, legally, and tracked, then small arms fielded by the entire US military, and with the exception of light/medium machines, grenade launchers on rifles…many of our personal firearms are way better tuned up, to work just right, smoother, less failures to function than military stuff, with a far higher mechanical accuracy and precision potential built in, often times for equal or less money. Plus you know, two big ass oceans on the way…and the coastal ranges right behind them…then real mountains right behind the coastal mountains, haha. As long as we have any sort of federal level cohesion/extremely heavy state level, no one can invade us, and win. It’d be a physic victory for the literal world to beat us. For many reasons.

Everytime i hear someone say they saw a UFO 🛸 i say Bullshit!. Its the US testing new shit lol.

Israel has even developed micro-drones that fly right up to enemy soldiers and explode.

GOD BLESS AMERICA! 🇺🇲

From what I understand they also have refueling drone

For a rich nation I can see the draw of having tech like this but all I see is even less remorse when it comes to civilian casualties.

21:00, You Sweet Summer Child United Kingdom Blokes.

hey guys, we would love to watch you react to indian military too. hope you would make some vedios on indian content soon.

it is NOT ok... and humanity MUST DEMAND IT STOP

Anyone else thinking Skynet!! Sara Conner where are you

The soldiers have no money for thanksgiving but we have billion dollar drone????????

USA is so advanced in tech it would be scary to vs the usa

A few more years and wars will just be gaming battles will huge dollar costs. but hey a lot better then wars of the past.

Skynet begins...

Neat

You should see the video of that drone with a pistol.

Awesome idea for having drones as an extraction unit. The only problem with that theory is they would have to figure out weight distribution because the helicopter is not manned it now has to carry the weight of people. So the aircraft has to be able to carry the weight of itself and the people they are extracting from the zone. If that makes sense.

US spends the $ but also has less corruption per dollar spent.

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Also china n Russia like to look impressive USA looks to look less powerful then it is

Now just image what they are not showing you.

future warfare is a bunch of nerds playing a rts game... im guessing south korea will become a superpower 😛

While the movie Enemy at the Gates depicts only half of soviet soldiers being issued a rifle and the other half being told to just pick up rifles from dead soldiers, that was made up for the movie to add a greater sense of desperation on the part of the soviet defenders. Not just did that not happen during the Battle of Stalingrad, that didn't happen on any eastern front battlefield, because that was one of the truly brutal lessons the imperial russian army had learned during WWI. During The Great War, that absolutely happened. On multiple occasions, the first wave of russian soldiers sent over the top to assault german or austro-hungarian trenches would have a rifle, but for the second wave only half would have rifles. For the entirety of imperial russia's participation in the war, they relied heavily on imports of foreign arms. After the rise of stalin and the soviet union, a major emphasis would be put on industrialization, especially in terms of rifles. So, by the time WWII rolled around they had plenty of rifles. What they didn't have enough of were the latest generation of tanks, planes, radios, and experienced officers. The only case of russian forces being engaged and not having enough guns was a labor battalion that was made up of "reservists"(regular civilians hastily mobilized weeks prior to the beginning of the battle) who had been deployed to construct trenches and other defensive earth works, that came under fire from a german unit that was screening the advance of the main german assault force. Other than that instance, a shortage of rifles wasn't one of the problems the red army had to deal with.

it's all fun and games until the drones come to enforce your carbon footprint and social credit score.