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Chinese scientists increase F-22 fighter jet’s radar signature 60,000 times with new detection method: study (www.scmp.com)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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

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