Posted on 04/11/2024 12:15:56 AM PDT by Reverend Wright
American drones aren't performing as well as those from other countries, like China's, in Ukraine. The drones are glitchy, expensive, and get lost during flight, sources told The Wall Street Journal....
The problems with many US-made drones, particularly some of the smaller ones, are that they often don't function as advertised or planned and easily glitch when targeted by Russian jamming, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
They are fragile and vulnerable to electronic warfare. For some of the systems that were sent to Ukraine, issues included not taking off, getting lost and not returning home, or simply failing to meet mission expectations.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Overpriced and underperforming.
The MIC is not going to solve its problems of late delivery, high cost and poor performance by incorporating Silicon Valley Tech.
What SV contributes is more of the same.
Silicon Valley is more interested in keeping their girlfriends supplied with Silicone Hills.
Oh, yeah, to the last Ukrainian !
“ There ‘s not as many now, as there was a while ago. “ ~ Johnny Horton
I owned a drone made in China and it was the biggest POS on planet earth.
Given there is no “great wall” firewall in China without Silicon Valley it seems a safe bet there is no Chinese drone without Silicon Valley either legitimately or stolen as well.
bookmark.
“easily glitch when targeted by Russian jamming”
Hopefully we can resolve this before we get into a real war.
PS I do thoroughly enjoy the Russian fly by wire drones being called state of the art.
As if fly by wire is the subsequent technology to remote control and not dino tech avoiding state of the art jammers.
When it comes to military design - the simplest thing that works is the right answer.
(probably a good principle for civilian design mechanical systems as well)
Technofools never want to go back, even when the “new and improved” turns out to be worse.
Eg. change from traditional steering controls on US Navy to the screens, and then back again. It was obvious that the “improvement” was a mistake, but it took multiple crashes before they could bring themselves to scrap the screens.
https://www.wired.com/story/no-more-screen-time-navy-reverts-physical-throttles/
Wire guided torpedoes are very effective.
“DEI” brand drones — “We can’t build sh*t, but we hire a lot POCs and trannies!”
Brings to mind the Russians using pencils in space, rather than expensive, zero-gravity space pens.
Lucrative drone contracts given to faithful Democratic donors.
That pencil story is an urban myth.
One of the things that made the Soviet space program so effective was its simplicity. They were able to use Soyuz spacecraft effectively for decades, while the U.S. lost 50% of our space shuttle fleet before ending the program.
ansel12, it must me true!
I once say John Wick kill three cosmonauts in a space capsule, with a PENCIL!
But Ukraine should be pleased that the malfunctioning American drones were morally superior because they were designed and built in accordance with diversity mandates.
For background, check “American Made Drones (14 Top Brands in 2024)” Kevin Wabiszewski, May 19, 2023
I blame it more on DEI government contract offices...if nobody enforces the contracts for quality and dependability - you get crap...
He had his own data center and refused to buy any computer hardware that came out of China. He told me that the Chinese replace components at the chip level to imbed their spyware. So it makes one wonder where the chips on the circuit boards in our drones come from?
Remember as a kid being told that everything coming from Japan is worthless crap.
Just like what I’m being told about Chinese stuff as an adult.
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