Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets

Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by sandworm101 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @11:08AM (#40158473)

Yes and no. Ammunition is important, but from a logistics standpoint it will be much less burdensome than the food/water/fuel that must be provided to men on the field. Even in a hot war, an infantry unit is not engaged in full combat 24/7. But it never stops eating.

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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by ethbr1 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @03:34PM (#40162003)

But autonomy explicitly decreases the human logistics burden too, by multiplying the effectiveness of each human.

Where in Civil War times you would need to clothe, feed, camp 100 people, now you have that firepower in a single soldier's weapon.

And when you remove the need for even a single human, you also remove their logistics footprint.

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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by dragonwriter on Friday April 26, 2024 @06:14PM (#40174901)

> Where in Civil War times you would need to clothe, feed, camp 100 people, now you have that firepower in a single soldier's weapon.

Which doesn't reduce the number of troops you need against a given foe with peer equipment, it just increases the durable equipment and consumables per soldier

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