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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No I'm agreeing with you.

I'm responding to people sweating about these "new" capabilities like the US has been caught by surprise.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah! That's it!! Fucking wild!

Edit: wait till the end and you can hear the sound of unseen death

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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).

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The secret here is the word "drop". As in drop them on drones beyond their limit maximum height.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Even cheap consumer-grade FPV drones (e.g. from DJI) have a service ceiling of like 6km. They're just legally not allowed to fly that high lol.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sorry Maverick you can't drop the drone because it's forbidden in the Terms of Service, over.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It would release them about a mile out. I'll see if I can find it. I sent it to a friend a while back.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.

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