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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by jacquesm on Thursday August 30, 2018 @05:24PM (#17880924)
> I hope we're done with manned aircraft after the F-35, and it is all drone swarms from here on out.

I hope we will be done with such devices entirely.

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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by m1573rp34130dy on Thursday August 30, 2018 @05:46PM (#17881085)
...i think this will be the new mutually assured destruction[m.a.d.]... we have nukes because the other guys have nukes, thus niether side actually uses them...

AI war drones are a step sideways into a new flavour of m.a.d.

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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by kjeetgill on Thursday August 30, 2018 @08:15PM (#17881947)
They're not. Mad worked because any single use was substantial and unforgivable. For better or for worse, this does not apply to "AI war drones". We've already seen them drop bombs on caravans of civilians and miss their targets in asymmetric war zones, and they can only get more precise.

Any outrage we wanted to see hasn't just been there and can only decrease.

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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by m1573rp34130dy on Friday August 31, 2018 @12:07AM (#17882885)
the AI F-35 would be a different type of war drone than the predator the predator drone is a pigeon carrying a firecracker compared to what is coming...
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