Real life battlefields are about to start sounding a lot like 2008 COD lobbies

"The Marines conducted an experiment." The scariest sentence in the English language.

"They gave a prototype to some Marines" means "so someone wanted to see what the most batshit thing you can do with this."

It's like how the navy was having trouble getting their sailors familiarized with the new electronic periscope. They tried for days to get people trained with the fancy joysticks that came with the system and no-one could get the hang of it. Then someone had the bright idea of hooking up an Xbox controller to the system cuz they noticed the set up was pretty similar. It took the sailors 20 minutes to become pros at using the new cameras.

In terms of defense budget, $6k a drone is like dollar menu death

Private: "Sarge, we have word of enemy contact beyond that hill!" Sarge looks with pure joy: "Private, release our flock of metal geese and pull up the kill cams."

Dude I remember using these on deployment during my time in the Marines. I carried one in my assault pack, the whole system is actually somewhat heavy having to carry the drone itself, antenna, the tripod for the antenna, fat ass batteries and controller, the laptop, and all the wires to connect shit together. But it was honestly hilarious, yet pretty damn dark watching Taliban fighters realizing what's flying right at them and trying to run, only to get slammed with what essentially was a flying homing grenade looney toons style. The video feed freezes for a second on the last thing the switchblade sees before exploding too, so it'd just be a frame of the dude looking back with a terrified face while trying to run.

I love this episode because I think of all the times I was told “you’re not learning anything from those video games.” Turns out I’m really good at controlling things remotely or internally like heavy machinery.

Fun fact - The Company that makes the Switchblades are also trying to turn them into Anti-Drone weapons as well. The idea is that they would detect a hostile drone, launch out of it's pre-placed tube, and go give the enemy drone an explosive kiss.

If you want to unlock features you didn't know your weapon had, give it to a bunch of Marines for a week or two and they'll be telling you some shit that'll blow your mind.

I trained on these systems, their absolutely amazing! The unit we were supposed to be relieving in Afghan had a Switch Blade Operator, he got six kills with this (obviously with 6 different drones). The cool thing is it takes video that uploads to the operator device, so got to watch all the videos, there’s always a surprised look on the enemies face before the boom 😂

These drones are a huge game changer. I'm a former Army Sniper. These things would be a nightmare for me to defend against.

The line "hey guys, do you want to see how baby helicopters are born YEET" has me dying

I can already tell you that there's gonna be that one grunt carrying nothing but a pistol and a dozen switchblade 300 drones, which at about 5 and a half pounds a piece is only 66ish pounds, so somebody actually could just waltz up with a backpack full of these things and send angry same day deliveries to enemies like it's Amazon the week before Christmas

Veteran 15W here. Back in the day, in either 06 or 07, my company was visited by a civilian organization. They were pitching the concept to actual UAS operators to see what we thought about it and if we had any input. And yes, it was (possibly tentatively) called the switchblade even back then. I said it then, and I still say it now: Fantastic!

I build drones and started looking into researching and designing a prop powered rocket I could guide. Yeah things start to get real sketchy when you start down that rabbit hole. You end up on lists you don’t want to be on.

More deceased bad guys for less money and less friendly casualties is definitely a good thing

Ah yes the Hunter Killer Drone. I hated it so much during the heyday of Black Ops II that all I could think of are wise words of my E-8 deceased badass airman that is my Papa (granddad): "Whatever you think the U.S has in terms of weapons, the U.S military is ahead 20 years of everyone else...they just haven't mass produced it yet."

I think they'll look at the Switchblade more like like the Borchardt C-90... the very first pistol to have all the "modern" features like semiautomatic action and removable box magazines... or, more charitably, like the 1911. Basically "feature complete," with newer stuff just having iterative improvements on the same concept.

Infantry: “can I join the air force?” Uncle Sam: “we have air force at home” The Air Force at home:

I got to test these in Afghanistan. We launched a Switchblade 300 and used it against a concrete wall section. Unfortunately the guys who set up the first one forgot to arm the thing so we watched it splat against the wall and break apart (EOD was unhappy with us for the rest of the week). But we got it right the 2nd time around!

100 years ago, combat aviation was still trying to figure out how to precisely drop bombs. 32 years ago, the entire world watched as cruise missiles landed on targets in Iraq. Today, we have literal AP and AT man portable cruise missiles. I love this timeline!!

in all honesty i think a forward mounted flechette launcher would be more successful. You could detonate from farther away to maximize spread to hit more infantry targets. This is pretty mild compared to my units frankenstein explosive, it was a roll of razor or barbed wire packed full in the middle of c-4 you could probably tell why it got the name.

I do find it quite hilarious that before you even mentioned Black Ops 2 I had already said to myself that it looks suspiciously similar to the hunter killer drone killstreak in that game. Life really does imitate art eventually huh...

The army made a FPS game called Americas Army in the early 2000's around the time Medal of honor was very popular and it was basically a simulation exercise familiarizing the kids or youth playing these kind of games for cqc and guerilla combat scenarios. They went into detail on weapons, vehicles and had awesome maps. Me and a buddy got really really good at playing and got calls and emails from recruiters. The military is always looking for prime talent in every way shape of form lol.

The subtle hat change made me laugh so hard that it brought a single tear to my right eye! Thanks for that, Nick. I've been in need of a good "gut buster".

My oldest son shares your videos and I have come to love them. Your sense of humor makes these informative videos extremely entertaining. Thanks.

2:25 Got to love the "Effects on Target": Answer: "Anti-Personnel Effects"

Being a veteran and drawn to wargames, I have been using this exact thing in Battlefield 4 for a long time now. Myself and many like minded friends have logged thousands of hours using the UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle). Mostly we use them to piss other players off, but many videos have been made highlighting these shenanigans.

Rough math, 1 grunt could run around an enemy city with 8 to 10 of the small drones in a backpack and really ruin a bad guys boss's boss's day. I mean, look at how close John Oliver got to a Kremlin site with a full camera crew to interview Snowden.

Could you imagine making one of the rapid dragon missiles into basically a cluster holder for these to target a mass of infantry with minimal infrastructure destruction at a massive range

These were so much fun to use. Used 15 of these in 2012 🎉🎉

Its only a conspiracy if it's wrong. Keep your head down QB, we still need you

Easily one of the best presenters on KZfaq. Awesome facts with an amazing sense of humor. Would absolutely love a video on the F14 Tomcat

"The Last Starfighter" and "Ender's Game" come to mind.

1:49 - What's that buzzing sound in the background? Wait... It's getting louder... And louder. "Changing the subject" Huh. The buzzing went away...

The line about your grandkids looking at this like we look at a musket really stuck with me. The future is going to be a scary place. So we need to start adapting. Seems like the military has been helping us adapt for longer than we realized

Marines, "Spicy model airplanes are cool, but you know what would be cooler? Yeeting them out of helicopters." My God, I love this country so much.

"Hey guys, you wanna see how a baby helicopter's born? Yeet!" I nearly coughed up a lung at that one. 🤣🤣🤣 =^x^=

I don't know which part of these videos is more engaging/entertaining - the information you're putting out, your delivery, or the humorous anecdotes that run rampant. Seeing new posts makes my week, keep up the good work!!!!

I imagine there's a group working on a Rapid Dragon style deployment system for both varieties of switchblade. I can only imagine a C17 dropping three crates, one deploying hundreds of the switchblades, dozens of the 600's, and as many Rapid Dragon crates they could cram in the back behind all that, all with predesignated targets.

😂😂😂😂 "how a baby helicopter is born" i laughed so hard my dinner came out my nose! brilliant!

My gosh I love this guy. Watching at 2x speed, it's sometimes too difficult to listen to the narration over the sound of my own laughter.

Black Op2. Played it in 2012 and honestly was the only one with a story that let you pick and customize your loadout. Which was something done only once. Anyways the hunter killer drone was my favorite killing tool. Note: the story takes place in 2025 and my guess is that will have them by that year.

You know, I didn't think I was going to enjoy this episode very much when I clicked, but the tinfoil hat and "spicy model airplane" line brought me right back onboard lol

1:57 Salt Lake City shout-out! Granted, it's in an ad, but I'll count it.

I’m a veteran and I love all these stories in your videos. I just found you channel and subbed. Keep up the great work. Hoooooaah!!

God bless the U.S.M.C. for conducting proper tests!

Thank you for what you do.... Going through Thymus Cancer and your humor is medicine for me.

Future battlefields are gonna be so full of drones that there will probably end up being a designated guy with a shotgun in every squad who just randomly shoots buckshot into the sky at all times.

0:44 I fkn fell out of my seat laughing about the tinfoil cap

Sure COD is a good training ground for using a controller, but I also know a few teenagers that have either received drones as gifts or bought them with money they received as a birthday gift, Christmas gift, or graduation gift. You are right about Uncle Sam being able to pick up on what the target recruitment age group excels at and weaponize it though.

Switchblade is a pretty logical progression of the TOW missile. I remember playing either Goldeneye or Perfect Dark and there was a remote controlled rocket.

As a kid I was into RC airplanes a little bit (limited budget), but once smartphones came out (high speed wireless networks connecting small devices) and GoPros/"action cameras" started getting popular, I knew it was only a matter of time before someone combined them all into a weapons platform. Sadly, I didn't have the electronics knowledge to jump into it early and get a company going 😅😅

This vid had some of your best one liners. Spicy model airplanes is gold.

Mix this with the rapid dragon, and you've suddenly got more directed explosive power heading in one direction than you want to think of. This is why airborne will never die, but armor just might.

I just got back from a field exercise and used multiple quackbang grenades for the first time. You inspired me to begin this exploration of this unconventional warfare. Can confirm maximum fuckery and confusion is accurate.

Love your content always makes me and my brother laugh. You’ve made a bad day a lot easier for me to manage so I must thank you

They were working video games since at least 2005 when First to Fight was released on the original Xbox, which right on the front cover, it’s touted to be “based on a training tool developed for the United States Marines”

Time to share yet another Fat Electrician video with the other 15,000 vets of RegimentGG. We love your videos over there, very much a military sense of humor.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the reason you connect it to COD is that the hunter killer got you enough it became firmly implanted as a "run away from things that threaten my life" thing, and that's what you thought of upon seeing Switchblade... but maybe that's just me

Subscribed from the Demolitia . Loved the video. Can you imagine hundreds of those kinds of drones all preprogrammed to seek targets. Eeeek.

"Wanna see how a baby helicopters born?", goddamn man, you crack me up; I literally LOL'd at that one and as an infantry vet, you're on point.

All I picture is the scene from the movie "300" when the arrows blocked the sun.

Uncle Sam absolutely has intelligence agency officials in all forms of media, including gaming.

At what point does a kamikaze drone just become a precision guided missile?

Some people in the comments have mentioned using these to take out other drones, and I’m just watching WW1 aerial combat re-evolving in drone warfare. First they were used for reconnaissance, then someone went “I could drop a bomb from that.” Now we’ve got specialized bombers, and I’m just waiting for a drone with some sort of anti-drone weaponry. A .22lr gun? Something else? Who knows? But I eagerly await the drone dogfights.

Actually the CoD devs actually talk to military people, weapons and gear manufacturers and gov researchers to get some of the ideas for their games. So it is actually very possible that they talked to someone who told them about it

I can understand the tern kamikaze drone, but when you think about it, it;s keeping the troops safe to fight another day, while making the other side paranoid about hearing a buzzing noise coming from the sky.

I have quite a bit of kills with the SUAV (352) and UCAV (478) in Battlefield 4. I can also fly drones IRL pretty damn well, actually easier than in games. Uncle Sam was definitely trying to groom us to be drone pilots, lol.

I need a longer form. The info is excellent, but I want more. Keep up the good work

Straight outta the Japanese handbook

Look forward to all the videos, brother!

Content neverrrr gets old. I still watch videos you posted a year ago.

We had these in 2014 but never got the chance to use one. Great job as usual!! We just got our last order of shirts and love them!! Thanks for what you do

Gives a whole new level to "Putting warheads on foreheads."

I enjoy watching all your videos. I am not military but I did work for the military for many yrs. I use to set up the Abrams M1M2Sep simulators and train the soldiers before they went into Iraq. In addition, I also setup and trained soldiers on the Bradly simulators. I trained at Fort Knox and Ft. Benning prior to Certifying on the Unit of conduct fire training system to include the Abrams. My last station was as a firing range repairing the targets (365) SIT, MIT, MAT systems. Also, simulator training, Engagement skills training. I saw Apache helicopter hover 100 of the deck and blaze the targets I had to later repair (but loved doing it). I saw Abrams tanks fire live. It was the most exciting job I ever had. I saw and meet a Seal Team come in and practice on the range and meet some of these bad ass in person. No shit, one asked me for a cigarette. I gave him the whole pack. I was also, once made honorary member of the 41 Calv. For my work on the training systems, received a coin. The other techs before me were assholes to the soldiers. Me, I was proud to be there and treated them with respect. I love the military, however one day after work going home, 2nd shift (1:30pm to 9:30pm). I was hit by a drunk driver head on and ended my carrier. Your videos are god dam assume. Keep making them they are the best. By the way. I am from Texas. I saw that video too.

I wish I had the money to subscribe to your channel. I like how you get to the point and talk quickly instead of dragging it out way too long.

Thank you for sharing! This thing is badass and I am happy to see the troops are staying as far from danger as possible! Stay safe and wait for the Men in Black to show up at our doors! 😂

I was in country when these were being fielded. My buddy was our raven pilot and was trained on the switchblade. We never ended up getting any assignments, but they are badass.

Good video Recommend the coast guard They get a lot of shit but the are actually badass Specially the MSRT rate

imagine like 10,000 people firing switchblades at once, that’s not liveleak, that’s deadsecure

the Peral Harbor joke broke me🤣

I appreciate your subtle but serious consideration of the risks. Love how you can make heavy things funny and interesting, but keep some perspective on at the same time

Keep it up. Need ideas ? Operation popeye

I was at work during break watching this and the internet went out just as you joked about unknown agencies contacting you. Priceless.

In high school I went and did a mentor Monday or something like that and shadowed one of the guys that helped design this beautiful pice of modern engineering! So cool!!!

It needs a speaker screaming "Banzai!" before impact.

Getting to the point the government is like: “We cant just buy 10000 tanks and let them rust, our budget is gonna get reduced!” Some grunt: “Hey you ever played Call of Duty?”

Best Ted Talk ever.

Also remember it was added to Battlefield 4, logging more hours of smacking soldiers in the face than the more annoying MAV.

1 hour and this legend gets more views than any of my videos in a full year! LOVE YOUR STUFF MAN! Can't stop watching!!!

It's the best kind of an unhinged Ted Talk makes my day every time

Love your vids and the intro and summation were on-point in this one. As a massive fan of the all-night F-15, imma need to know where you got that shirt. I don't see it in your mech store. Thanks!

I can't tell you how much I enjoy this channel! I share it with everyone that will let me!

WW2 USA after seeing Japanese kamikaze: Good idea, but way too expensive. USA today: Hey Japan, we took your kamikaze idea and made it way cheaper! Japan: NANI!

The COD model was derived from the N64 game Perfect Dark. I think they were called "Fly by wire missiles". You could remote control the missiles from the POV of the missile and remote detonate on command. I still remember how to fly those things!!!!

Side note on the COD timing with the hunter killer drones/switch blade tech, is that black ops 2 is set in 2024-2025. Literally the years were in now

just the thought of 5 helicopter flying over an active warzone and dropping like 100 each of these things and some miles away ach kamikaze drone is aimed by some kid that played way too much cod actually terrifies me. it's like a swarm of killer bees but each bee is huge and wants to blow you up. you aren't save anywhere and they will find you

All it's missing is the Xbox tab saying Hunter killer drone saying it killed 5