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MindzEye said:
It's not about out spending or our producing them, it's about developing technology they don't. Ukraine is, bar none, the best in the world with small attack and interceptor drones right now. Their development pipeline works the opposite of the American pipeline (the Russians refer to Ukie drone as "kitchen drones" as in, they're built in your grandmothers kitchen...it's meant as a slight, but it does speak to the bottom up development cycle rather than the Raytheon down cycle the US uses).

There's a huge wide open space for development in autonomous drone systems right now. The US owns Reaper style drone space, but those are too expensive for most customers these days. Shit, the Iranians and Yemenis swat them out of the sky at the cost of 30 million per unit. The future is in autonomous drones and swarming tech. That's untilled soil mate.
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Drones are a totally different conversation. I couldn’t agree with you more about drones. The Russian/Ukraine war is changing the mentality for military production. There is going to be a shit ton of already built military stuff that’s going to be obsolete within the next few years.
 
Kritter said:
Drones are a totally different conversation. I couldn’t agree with you more about drones. The Russian/Ukraine war is changing the mentality for military production. There is going to be a shit ton of already built military stuff that’s going to be obsolete within the next few years.
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It's all connected though mate. Drone defence and missile defence are inextricably linked now. Rocket arty, trad arty, short & medium range attack drones are inextricably linked. If you can't develop/build your own low cost interceptor missiles and himars rockets, you're behind potential adversaries. If you can't develop (or at least co develop to unlock scale) short and medium range naval missiles, same same.

Getting into aerospace research on space exploration end of things, unlocks a bunch of technologies on the terrestrial end. And yeah, this is before we look at this from the side of being able to develop and launch our own satelites without the aid of anyone else. Communication, tracking and monitoring, radiation sensors, etc, etc. All shit that we've relied on the US to do for us that we just can't rely on them for any longer.
 
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