Autonomous Weapons - THE WAY OF THE FUTURE / NOW

Got this video from a friend the other day....

All I can think of is .....
"BUY BUY BUY !!!!" - if I am a general this is what will end a war, or any war !!

Those professors started a campaign with a website aim to ban autonomous weapons but I thought they just gave every military leader or terrorist organization a brilliant idea!



Before you said this is impossible -


The future is really NOW.......


To be honest, China is really at the forefront of this. They are already producing MILLIONS of these and they are selling like hot cakes around the world and that name is called DJI....







Their latest drone... DJI SPark is pretty close to this scenerio they envision already.
At $399 USD a pop it is already too cheap for the military. If they miniturize it further it can probably bring the cost down even more dramatically for large miliary order - let's say $100 USD - about the cost of an iPhone at manufacturer's price.

If China only spend 1/200 of their miliary budget (which currently is estimated at $215 billion) of around $1 billion USD, they can buy 10 MILLION of these. It is probably more than sufficient to wipe out several armies / countries.

All China really need to do is to harden these. EMP / Microwave weapons will be the main countermeasures so these drones will be harden against them. Once that's done they are pretty much invincible.

Imagine a swarm of these at the scale of hundreds of thousands....




Actually, don't even bother imagine. Watch this :




These are not CG. Its an actual event happened in Guangzhou China.


Now, imagine a batch of 100,000 being dropped by this in formation:

It's the military spec sensors and secure communications that drive up the price of military micro UAVs. There are a number of US micros that resemble the DJI Spark.
Military OEMs have been working on swarm drones and Air dropped drones for over a decade now.

They may be working on them for over a decade now, but can they mass produce them to compete with China?

I read a very interesting book called "Liquid Crystal Displays Fundamental Physics and Technology" years ago; and one paragraph in the book strikes me as particularly interesting.

Excerpt from Liquid Crystal Displays Fundamental Physics and Technology (2011) page 420 :

"In continuing efforts to respond to the government’s pleas for a liquid crystal knight - errant, the defense contractors Honeywell and Xerox also tried to develop and manufacture their own milspec liquid crystal displays, but although technologically very successful, their manufacturing businesses fared no better than OIS and Guardian, and LCD panel production was phased out at those companies in 1998 and 2001 respectively. Today Honeywell ’ s military - use LCDs ironically are made almost exclusively by Taiwan ’ s Chimei."


The Electronics Manufacturing Paradigm

"The archetypical development process for today’s electronics products starts with a scientific specimen hatched from European academia, the curiosity being taken in by American technology companies and a prototype fashioned. That device is then seized on by consumer electronics companies in Japan, and refined to become a viable commercial product. Then huge production lines in Korea and Taiwan efficiently mass produce the basic components of the new product, which are then assembled by system integrators in China to sell under different brand names all over the world. After achieving significant research breakthroughs, the American and European pioneering liquid crystal display companies certainly had the chance to seize control of the new industry; still, one by one, they left the LCD business and relinquished the market to the Japanese."

7 out of 10 of the Worlds top drone makers are US based.
2 are Chinese including DJI and 1 is French.

So which 7 are these top drone makers you talking about? Can I buy them? Are they in Walmart?

You are basically counting all american defence firms against Chinse civilian firms. And even that count is wrong.

China actually produce quite a lot of military drones too. So if you start counting the chinese military ones too I don't think American will have that many in top 10.

I counted Chinese makers, and most of them no but then any serious drone threat would be a military drone type, not something you can buy at Walmart.