• @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    131 year ago

    I can’t find the link, but I saw a video of a training exercise where an F-35 dropped a shit-ton of autonomous drones, and they circled until they each had an individual target, then plunged right into them.

    Fuck that. You have zero warning because you can’t see the F-35 and you can’t see the drones until they turn your lights off.

    • @Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Homies acting like the US hasn’t been bombing places with drones since 2003

      Shaheds Russia is bombing Ukraine with right now are an Iranian copy of a captured Sentinel drone

      • @TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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        61 year ago

        These were different. Real small and about a hundred of them. Its a continuation of weapon system they used in Iraq, where a munition would be shot over a position and release a hundred little guided bombs. Now it’s just guided bombs and a shitton of the fuckers.

    • @zephyreks@lemmy.mlOPM
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      31 year ago

      If the F-35 is operating within small drone range, it’s probably detectable on infrared tbh. If it’s a larger drone, then there’s not really much of an advantage of launching it by F-35 because you’d probably be outside of radar range anyway. The F-35 is most useful when it IS accomplishing the role of CAS because it has the benefit of a pilot.

      As it stands, I feel like the primary role of jets today is to maintain aerial superiority to drop heavy bombs (which are far cheaper than building an equivalent drone).

        • @zephyreks@lemmy.mlOPM
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          01 year ago

          That’s going to be easily within infrared detection distance, right? Sounds like it would only work against insurgents who don’t have access to advanced guided munitions.