pigfarmer
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You can find all sorts of stuff now online about this and some mediocre fiction but talk of 'suites' of weapons goes back a while. Aircraft will deploy AI driven drones with specific purposes to free the humans up for other things. There's even discussion that pilot skills may ultimately be compromised by the tech itself.
So no more B-52 or B1B on its own flying at tree top level to drop an H-bomb. Maybe your wingman is an AI driven drone. Maybe your tanker is too. The traditional electronic countermeasures might be much more actively proactive. I look at the US warship encounters in that light, both the current ones and the less recent.
Heard a Black Vault interview with the director of DARPA, a former fighter pilot. He couldn't/wouldn't talk about lasers at all and was pretty abrupt about it. I remember reading about massive 747 based lasers intended for anti-ballistic missile use back in the '70s in Popular Science. High powered lasers in the tunnels that supposedly exist at Kirtland and Manzano - so says Chris Lambright in X-Descending - could well have been related to the lightcraft that Leik Myrabo later patented. Whatever their intended use, forty years later plus the shockingly rapid advances in computing power we've seen really make me wonder if technology finally caught up with something that had been a good idea or maybe just on the drawing board.
....or maybe that's all bullshit. But interest in anti-ballistic missile weapons and autonomous, highly capable 'partners' that look and feel a lot like the stuff we've been seeing isn't.
So no more B-52 or B1B on its own flying at tree top level to drop an H-bomb. Maybe your wingman is an AI driven drone. Maybe your tanker is too. The traditional electronic countermeasures might be much more actively proactive. I look at the US warship encounters in that light, both the current ones and the less recent.
Heard a Black Vault interview with the director of DARPA, a former fighter pilot. He couldn't/wouldn't talk about lasers at all and was pretty abrupt about it. I remember reading about massive 747 based lasers intended for anti-ballistic missile use back in the '70s in Popular Science. High powered lasers in the tunnels that supposedly exist at Kirtland and Manzano - so says Chris Lambright in X-Descending - could well have been related to the lightcraft that Leik Myrabo later patented. Whatever their intended use, forty years later plus the shockingly rapid advances in computing power we've seen really make me wonder if technology finally caught up with something that had been a good idea or maybe just on the drawing board.
....or maybe that's all bullshit. But interest in anti-ballistic missile weapons and autonomous, highly capable 'partners' that look and feel a lot like the stuff we've been seeing isn't.