Is there any need for any military attack equipment to be manned anymore?

Sure, and I am not out here suggesting we should killed each other. But what actually happens when say two drones disable each other? Did it do anything?

Ultimately it really only matters when humans are involved. The purpose of a drone is to harm the othersides humans at some point.

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I agree. The age of the drone is here.

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And the age of unmanned A.I. drones is very near.

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This can all be done remotely now.

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Based on what is happening these days, most of the current battle space has gone back to fiber optic cables to control.

I suppose that is remote

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Unjammable fiber-optic drones are taking over and turning Ukrainian forests into spiderwebs of wires, video shows

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ships, subs

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I expect these will still need to be crewed for the time being. USV’s exist, but they don’t serve the same purpose as aircraft carriers or missile cruisers. When you’re talking about a vessel that has to be able to deploy from literally anywhere on the planet and maintain long periods of time at sea, you need a crew to keep everything running. Someone has to fix shite when it breaks, handle ordnance, etc.

At some point we might see aircraft carriers that look like floating Amazon facilities, with autonomous robots ferrying drones to and from the flight deck. Not to mention operating/maintaining the nuclear reactor without any human intervention. I think we are probably a long way off from that right now though. And as long as you need carriers, you also need carrier groups.

In the short term I’d expect those carrier groups to become the home bases for the unmanned operations actually engaging in combat.

Subs I think have the same issue.. you probably aren’t going to trust robots with no connection to the outside world to operate nuclear reactors. And you DEFINITELY aren’t going to trust them with your actual nuclear weapons.

…I hope.

There is always a need for infantry killers.

Queen of battle. Infantry is never going away, ever. You going to fly a drone into a Hamas tunnel? Your drone going to pop a terrorist holding a hostage faster than Delta can move a bureau, a rug, find a trap door with a dog, and find a hostage?

No.

I would rather firebomb places like Gaza and get it over with, but that's not acceptable according to the EU, so we'll resort to identifying and killing the enemy at close range. I'm OK with anything, as long as the enemy dies.

Attack equipment is 22 year olds that are alcoholics that want to prove themselves. You can't clear a building with a drone. You can clear a building with dudes that have been denied beer, coochie, and Zyns, because they're angry. They just so happen to have a 249 to take out their frustrations.

Wait, you are equating ICBM launches with what, exactly? 50k worth of explosives dropped in Iran?

Planes absolutely need to be manned. What you don't want is a C5 Galaxy or C17 Globemaster loaded down crashing over a major metropolitan area. A drone is one thing but 840,000 pounds crashing into Midtown Memphis for example would be an absolute disaster. That just has to happen once and you can forget it.

It's not the in-flight that's the issue. You need pilots for take offs and landings.

Equally odd, killing humans will not be the focus of future wars. It will be about attacking and destroying technology.

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It will be about attacking and destroying technology.

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infrastructure: Humans cannot survive without light, heat, transport, meds, food, fresh water.