• blterrible@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    No. Humans in aircraft are on the way out. Drones are the future. When the drones are significantly cheaper than the missiles used to shoot them down, logistics inevitably wins.

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      7 months ago

      its gonna be factories spending all our resources and polluting the planet further just so robots can fight robots, and the robots who win get to slaughter or enslave the civilians.

      ww3 is gonna be the dumbest war so far

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      7 months ago

      Oh I never said it would be humans piloting the sixth gen dogfighters. They’re gonna be drones designed to withstand sustained 20G turns to be able to get their guns on target, commanded from something like an AWACS.

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        They’re gonna be drones designed to withstand sustained 20G turns to be able to get their guns on target

        Full Gallente.