Meet the Manta Ray: it’s unmanned, it’s huge, and it can remain on station for months at depths no manned submersible could ever hope to achieve. Meanwhile, in the air, multiple ‘loyal wingman’ drones accompany manned stealth fighters and are put into harm’s way in place of an irreplaceable human life. This new generation of autonomous, unmanned vehicles occupies the bleeding edge of the next Revolution in Military Affairs.
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I read a book last year called Dangerous Grounds. It was about a submarine that went into the territorial waters of Russia to check on nuclear waste disposal. The semi autonomous sub they used from the main sub was called a Manta. Good book and very well written.
Don’t we need to make our own chips for any of this to be a good idea? I really don’t like the idea of facing off with China or it’s allies with Chinese chips.
Marxists always warned us that they would sell us the rope we hang ourselves with.
We’ve been doing it since Sherman cut ties with the north and went on a scorched earth campaign in the south. But yeah.
The media bias we are currently suffering under is giving a lot of people the wrong impression of our current state of military readiness and the fitness of our military personnel. This is one place where the more Right leaning media outlets are considerably guiltier than the huge bulk of Leftist MSM venues. When you hear about some limp-wristed transvestite deviant weirdo causing trouble in the military, you are NOT hearing anything significant to the operation of our armed forces. You’re hearing about a weirdo that the press/media content providers make a huge issue of to get you all riled… Read more »
My biggest concern, an old trope, I admit, is that we are preparing for the last war instead of the next. Like too many know-it-alls, I think it will be in Space and done by these drone planes and ships here on land. Bravely storming beaches and heroically buzzing around in dog-fighting planes is three wars ago. Seeing what is happening in Israel with so many rockets coming in and so few making it through is heartening. America’s biggest security threat is the guided destruction of Judeo-Christian, Western society via Chinese elements like Tic-Toc and the Democratic Party’s blind adherence… Read more »
No matter how it goes technologically and electronically, there’s always going to be a need for boots and rifles. The “boots” might be high tech individual fighting armor and the “rifles” might be beam weapons or rail guns but it’s still the same basic thing. This is something a Marine knows first hand, they always promise to “soften up” the enemy with bombing, missiles, artillery and all this new stuff is just a fancier version of those things. Yet they never seem to be able to get the bad guys softened up enough and Marines always die taking and holding… Read more »
Actually, I believe the submarine goes back to David Bushnell’s Turtle in the Revolutionary War
Always cool to see the new tech and how we attempt to limit our own force casualties and civilian ones. Back in the 90s, a buddy of mine in the Navy had as his first non flying billet being part of a joint force that was expanding the use of data to show friendlies. In the air, this was being done with airborne systems such as AWACs. Armored cavalry had their own system that would let the tank commander see his forces. These systems didn’t communicate with each other. Considerable time and effort went into getting them to do so.… Read more »
It seems increasingly likely that the next “fighting” war will be one of disrupting communications. We’re losing the war to keep our culture, the only thing worth fighting for in the first place.
Innovation is definitely an American strength. I do hope that we have learned enough from out pop culture to ensure that, if our unmanned AI military hardware starts to see us as the enemy, that we can easily shut it down.
Can they use the Manta Ray to protect the oceans from the Chinese? I’m hearing they illegally “harvest” any and everything, wiping out aquatic ecosystems with no thoughts for tomorrow, needing protein today.
Like everything else in our culture, our military is a generation of trust funders. They’re surviving on the legacy that great predecessors built, and are quickly squandering it. Once DEI fully infiltrates military R&D that advantage will evaporate.
Yeah … then DEI will have achieved its true meaning and programmed intent … DIE.
I use DEI. But I say it is Division, Exclusion and Idiocy.
But yeah, it Needs to die.