[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Skybird

The way the drones were brought in and prepared reminds me of a scene from Daniel Suarez' novel "Kill Decision. In it, autonomous drone swarms with swarm intelligence get transported via commercial shipping containers, on merchant freighters. When the time had come, the containers released the drones from these merchants , and the drone swarm then vicously attacked and wiped out military navy fleets and land targets, striking completely surprisingly while sailing unsuspiciously to closest vicinity with their targets. Somethign along this idea, if I remember correctly, its a long time ago I red the novel.,

The novel was written 2011 and 2012.

Drones will bring us plenty of fun in the future. I fear we have just seen the tip of the iceberg so far.

Today I read in FOCUS this:

A senior Ukrainian official acknowledged that the operation [against the russian bombers, Skybird] risks turning Western partners away from Ukraine.

“The concern is that this is Sinop,” he said, referring to the Russian attack on an Ottoman port in 1853, which resulted in the aggressor being isolated on the world stage.

Western forces are watching the situation closely. For many years they have concentrated their own aircraft at fewer and fewer airbases for cost reasons and have failed to invest in hardened hangars or shelters that could protect against drones and missiles. America's own strategic bombers can be seen on public satellite imagery standing in the open.

“Imagine,” writes Tom Shugart of CNAS, a Washington think tank, 'containers in rail yards, on Chinese container ships in port or offshore, on trucks parked in random places ... from which thousands of drones are sprouting, flying off and destroying at least the crown jewels of the [US Air Force].' That, he warns, would be ‘quite feasible’.