Posted on 05/22/2023 3:18:18 AM PDT by tired&retired
Defense News reporters have obtained an image of China's secret supersonic WZ-8 drone. The drone is parked outside one of the new hangars at Lu'an Air Base in Anhui province.
Here's What We Know The People's Republic of China is actively upgrading the airbase where the People's Liberation Army bombers are stationed. As you can see, a hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicle capable of speeds of Mach 3 (more than 3,700km/h) is also located there.
But you must speak in Mandarin Chinese
What’s 10% of the technology that Hunter traded them for a weekend of Fang-Fang and coke?
How long before the big guy wants to send F-35s to Ukraine for Russian in depth inspection?
On the other hand, the neoconunists have been deluding themselves that the chicoms are hopelessly stupid people stuck in the Stone Age and therefore can never, ever catch up to us, let alone innovate. I am not at all convinced by their argument.
I have heard no assessment of China that they are mired in the stone age and can’t catch up with us.
I have read they are poor at innovation and that’s why they steal from us.
The constant references to “neocons” as a negative are being used by our adversaries to demoralize the United States and discourage us from improving our defenses.
If you read about new advances by communist China, and your reaction is to give up, you are part of the problem.
Didn’t at one time, around the middle of 1941, most in USA thought the Japanese were small, wore thick glasses with buck teeth that could not fight, only to be kicked in the balls on December 7, 1941.
I agree with you, we have to assume the Chinese have technology to wage a war that won’t be like Iraq and Afghanistan.
I have no idea if this story is true, but it would be better to assume it is and plan for it versus dismissing only to be slapped with reality one day.
hurts your butt. It's negative because it is negative. Neoconunists are destroying America. They are filthy scum who undermine the Republic and our Constitution in their never ending quest for empire while our own nation collapses all around us.
“I have no idea if this story is true, but it would be better to assume it is and plan for it versus dismissing only to be slapped with reality one day.”
The arms race is no longer bulky aircraft carriers, tanks, and fighter jets. An army of stealthy AI drones could devastate the current US military. The Russians learned what cheap, dumb drones could do to their tank battalions.
For the cost of one F35 you can produce 7,000 drones at 5,000 each. This is not unreasonable once your technology is designed and nailed down. So, for the cost of a hundred F35s you could have 700,000 drones. And drone swarm technology already exists, one person controlling hundreds of drones is possible. Add AI.
Manned aircraft will soon be obsolete.
Too much weight, space, energy, etc. is required for a pilot, and the pilot limits the performance of the vehicle.
If the Chinese have managed to perfect an autonomous drone fighter jet, the US airforce is sunk.
Some military analysts say China is likely to reach military parity with the US in 5 years. That’s why the neocons want a war with them sooner rather than later.
That I agree with, hopefully we are not still fighting a WW II style war and instead building toward a Skynet Terminator type of war.
Obviously we are not at that level yet but I can see in my lifetime a Skynet Terminator type situation.
One can only imagine what drone technology will look like in 5-10 years, autonomous drone swarms would overwhelm any sort of air defenses that exist today, the possibilities are limitless.
However, every time there is a leap forward in technology on the battlefield, there will always be some type of countermeasures developed, the questions is what type of countermeasures will be developed to defend against and possibly defeat drone swarms.
“For the cost of one F35 you can produce 7,000 drones at 5,000 each. This is not unreasonable once your technology is designed and nailed down. So, for the cost of a hundred F35s you could have 700,000 drones. And drone swarm technology already exists, one person controlling hundreds of drones is possible. Add AI.”
Biden wants to give the contract to build them to China! And, get his cut!
neocons have earned every bit of scorn that can be heaped onto you plus much more. Defense is not offense. If you stupid neoclowns ever figure that out, the world will be a better place.
China is a country where everything is made or built by the lowest bidder, using the cheapest materials, and can still pay the highest bribes.
“I have read they are poor at innovation and that’s why they steal from us.”
Until last year China was incapable of making the metal tips of a ballpoint pen.
“If you read about new advances by communist China, and your reaction is to give up, you are part of the problem.”
If you give up or read the word ‘neocon’, you have just swallowed a portion of the multi-billion dollar CCP propaganda campaign.
Nice try, but China’s a backwards country, so it is NOT POSSIBLE for their weapons to be effective against US weapons. No different than Russian weapons. I’m not idiot!!!
(p.s., did they ever find all the pieces of those Patriot launchers that got minced up in Ukraine?)
BS
That’s a recce drone, at best a high-speed missile carrier.
But no A2A drone.
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