UAVs have come a long way in history since their introduction as a 3-kill killstreak.

I’m glad that you mentioned the Toyota Hilux. No matter the number of Hilux that we destroyed from 2014-2017, it felt like we destroyed one, and two replaced it.

I work in aerospace, you cannot possibly imagine how limited the industry is by the cost of individual units. Due to overcoming that one major limitation drones as air power will be an ungodly nightmare to deal with sooner rather than later, strategies for dealing with drones will be akin to when tanks first entered the battlefield. All plans must be built around it, we’re seeing the infancy and it’s already crippling a multitude of established traditional tactics.

The Achilles heel of all drones is the communication link back to the controller. Expect radical improvements in the design of jam-proof, detection-proof and interception-proof communication links as well as on-board AI systems that don't even need a comm link.

I remember when the movie Toys, starring Robin Williams, came out in the 90’s and it was considered fiction. It was actually pretty spot on in terms of drone warfare.

Another major advantage of small drones is the repair and logistics advantage. You can quickly train up people to 3D print replacement parts rather than wait on high spec, proprietary parts that must be installed by a specialist. You also don't need specialized fuel and storage either, or runways for many drones

1:20 - Chapter 1 - Consumer drones 10:15 - Chapter 2 - Military airborn drones 18:50 - Chapter 3 - Droen warfare , land & sea 25:40 - Chapter 4 - The future of drone warfare

Thank you for giving us yet another extraordinary explanation about military weapons and tactics. I always considered war a very interesting subject and drone warfare is fascinating in its own regard. Well done Simon, well done.

One key factor everyone seem to overlook when it comes to drones... Range. My enemy is based 100km away. Even the largest, highest capacity consumer drone will travel 30km max! And that at a low altitude, slow speed and with insignificant payload. So, the size and therefore price of your drone depends ultimately on how close you can afford to be to your enemy. If you're locked in trench warfare or trying to organize raids or hit and run operations or trying to defend a certain installation from approaching attackers, small drones will help you make some impact. That doesn't mean they're more successful or useful than their larger, more capable cousins such as the Reaper or TB2. You can't use one or two engagements as your yard stick when it comes to measuring the success of your drone doctrine. Small consumer drones are working great for Ukrainian soldiers. Turkiye has been effectively using its TB2s armed with small, precise guided bombs in multiple theatres. Other missions best utilize other types of drones. Afterall, you use the equipment suitable to the specifications of the mission. NOT the other way round!

This video reminds me on one thing. In Medieval times warriors were trained how to fight and their attacks were not spectacular, but effective. Not the fancy and jawdropping attack moves were the ones that killed people quickly, but the fast, lame, boring, but effective ones, where you didn't saw exactly what happened, just simply wintnessed someone got wounded and died. Sometimes an experienced fighter managed to kill multiple not so exprienced ones. To me drones looking the same thing. Cheap, not so fency, four propeller thingies with a computer inside and voila, worlds next generation tools of destruction, that not require to sacrifice a human life to take more than ones.

When their battle droids are combined with yours, we will have the finest army in the world

Youll know ita bad when the drone after being given a strike package responds...... Roger, Roger.

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Just a note on larger unmanned ground vehicles, things like an entire squadron of unmanned tanks is unlikely, as they take a lot more punishment and often will need repairs on the fly. You would still need 3-4 guys dedicated to each vehicle, so the likely hood of a large tank battle being purley unmanned seems very unlikely. The there will definitely be plenty of use cases, I find it much more likely that the small to medium sized unmanned vehicles will make the most impact overall.

They're basically remote control mines. You can park a boat or a truck somewhere and just leave it there until something comes by. Then activate it and suicide it into the target. Scary.

Great video! Although I always think "how about we just stop killing each other" I know its a pipe dream

Gundam Wing called this shit years ago. The Mobil Dolls removed that thin ethical line in warfare.

If movies have taught me anything, you just need to take out the mothership and the drones will fall out of the sky.

This was outstanding. Very interesting. Great writing. And as usual, brilliant presentation.

When are the drones going to start delivering me dinner?

One other important benefit of the "loyal wingman" concept is that it protects the piloted F-35 from exposing itself to radar. The F-35 is very difficult to pick up on radar until it's weapon's bay is opened. With the loyal wingman being integrated into the F-35's targeting and weapon systems, the F-35 can direct the drone to be exposed instead.

5:15 wait till the day when a swarm of drones takes down a jet.

Interestingly, a technically minded person can easily learn, design and 3d print the components to build a drone. All the electronic components are easy to purchase and assemble. Some I've seen run on Raspberry-Pi.

The "Loyal Wingman" is the Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat. This is being developed and built in Australia by Boeing Australia for the Royal Australian Air Force. It's designed as an unmanned combat aerial vehicle that compliments fighter aircraft. What's unique is this is a sovereign project of Australia, with the US looking to purchase it for use. But otherwise, its actually an Australian project

Task an Purpose has a report out about our new armored platforms that are electric. I can imagine that they would push forward and launch killer drones wiping out enemy assets and personal. Followed up by unmanned tanks and machine gun drones. Gives me chills!!

HOW MANY KZfaq CHANNELS DOES THIS GUY HAVE?!?!?!?!!!

They may outside the scope of the topic but the US Navy has the USV Ranger, Nomad, Mariner & now the Vanguard. It's pertinent if pointing out the Global Hawk or "Loyal Wingman". That said, top self product as always. Many thanx to cast & crew Simon 👍👍

Such an amazing thing watching technology evolve over time in warfare. Crazy to think what war will look like in 100 years 😅

With all of the new drone systems, cybersecurity will be extremely important

TB2 is not the flag ship one that Türkiye offers. It is entry level indeed. There is larger ANKA, more larger Aksungur and the largest Akıncı all combat ready and actively used. There are experimental ones like ANKA-3 and Kızılelma

Is it possible we are beginning to build SkyNets army? Worlds powers build up remote controlled defences and arsenals, tech advances and escalates in abilities. Then A.I. takes over and we are killed by the machines we made to protect and advance us.

What is crazy as how this was predicted in movies, Angel has fallen had a scene where a bunch of drones were used in an attack, and everyone laughed it off as being unlikely to ever actually occur. Now groups are out here using drones as attack vehicles. I wonder what is coming next

Not limted to planes either, 11 years ago Top Gear James may raced a lorry that was almost completely A.I. operated by the US Army - The truck 🚚 itself was called Terramax

Coming back to the game from 2019 - Ace Combat 7 - Drones are the primary antagonist Ranging from the Goliath sized Arsenal bird twins - Liberty and Justice to Hugin and Munin at the very end. That may indeed be the future of aerial warfare

This channel is honestly one of your best by far. Keep up the good work ❤

My God I love this channel

When so many countries and organizations have access to these mind bogling technologies, the people of the world will have only one choice. To make peace.

As a ukraine war vet who did ISR missions for almost a year against the Russians i can confidently say drones are the future they will even exist after we r gone

China leads in drone technology. Last month they unveiled one that flies 10x the speed of sound and carries 12 different weapons. 2 days ago they unveiled another small one that can go to 200kms.

I imagine a future where drones are built by robots, the material to build the drones is mined by robots, processed and turned into weapons from start to finish. The country with the best ability to do this will dominate the world.

And once again the "needs must" of survival in the face of an agressor lead to leaps and bounds in technology for humanity. We are our own greatest enemy and at the same time our driving force to get forward.

It`s really unfortunate that there is so much suffering and dying when there is war, because when it`s time to fight for humans they get really inventive, and as a consequence very useful en usually revolutionary technology ensues.

ECM well be taking off hard too.

0:45 omg that's terrifying. Just talking on the phone and kaboom.

Awonderful introducing about drones utilizing by combating which caused changes warfare tactics in battlefields...it's cheaper prices compared to drones targets prices ...thank you for sharing

Uav 3 kill streak due to inflation now turned into a killler drone strike.

Drones are in use since the 70's at least. They are also use in rescue missions such as the case for the survivor of 911. It's been in military inventory way back, it's nothing new, but good video coverage 👍

Future Warfare is now.

“The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In any case, most actual fighting will be done by small robots, and as you go forth today remember your duty is clear: to build and maintain those robots.”

Ok, now I need a video explaining the Toyota Wars!

That was good, thank you.

Drones will swing the balance into the offenses favor until the defense (jamming tech) catches up. If you are educated in signal jamming and inventive there is an opportunity around the corner.

Actually the Houthi's in Yemen are the first to use Unmanned Explosive Boat Drones called Tawfan-1, Tawfan-2, and Tawfan-3 series which have been used by the Houthi navy in the Yemen Civil War since 2015 against the Saudi and Emirati navies operating in the area. Wouldn't be surprised if the Ukrainians got the idea from the Houthi videos you can watch on KZfaq lol.

Dogfighting is no longer a consideration for modern jets, F-16 would beat F-35 because F-35 was not designed for that. All air-to-air fighting happens beyond the line of sight with advanced weaponry. Loyal Wingmen drones fit into that perfectly - they provide extra firepower that is locally operated in comms denied environment.

I’ve never been so early with clothes on

B-but Todd Howard told me that war never changes!

U.S. Has been using UAV's in the military since the 60s

Huh. I wrote various posts against drone warfare while a cadet around 2008-9. My argument was that it would reduce warfare to a contest of money, and make militaries obsolete, forcing countries to target civilians exclusively. Glad/terrified to know I wasn’t far off….

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Russia is recruiting War Thunder players as drone operators and the US is even making their own drone operator game. War is going to become a game soon.

With your introduction like human beings do have to suffer all of those bits and pieces of war as well but now the UAV is a new element in the tragic world of warfare it doesn't take everything away just adds even more to it

Well presented (as usual)!

1. Remote controlled drones 2. Automated, AI driven drones 3. Automated, AI, and mobile drone factories 4. StarCraft, Skynet or Stargate Replicants Welp

Good one, Simon & team.

Hey! Would love to see an in-depth video on drone warfare and how it affects the average infantryman (guys like me). So much to cover on the topic, and I've seen so very few other channels touch the subject! Thanks!

guess they'll have to work on Jammer or localised EMP technologies

Very well said.

7:17 3rd Separate Assault Brigade of the UAF mentioned 💪

As a youngster always loved RC cars used to watch BattleBots. I've always told my lady wait till there's some psycho with an RC randomly killing people. Damn invasive thoughts one more thing to worry about. Okay two positive thoughts it's a beautiful sunny day and my loved ones are okay.

In the next 10 years, we'll have Vets suffering from PTSD the trigger: just by the buzzing sound of a drone. (Context: Kamikaze Drones)

3:50 Drone use in agriculture is very popular, look up the really large DJI drones for spraying.

this isn't modern warfare, this is advanced. warfare

Do not forget the importance of electronic warfare in the future to counter drone swarms.

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Putting learning AI into these seems like a really, REALLY, *REALLY* bad idea. Like, this is how we get skynet.

I’ve seen an rq-4 global hawk fly pretty low over my house, (I think wildfire spotting?) they’re cool as hell

it’s crazy they used to fight with 10 foot long spears and a hundred pound shield

hi-end, top of the line gear is great... for special ops. but in war ... Cheap is king!

If you add to this the demographic problem and lack of young people to send to wars, it seems even more likely that the wars of the next decades will be far more automated than ever and if that happens, they could become huge again

That raptor dont want this smoke! Lol

Is that a three-wolf-moon mug? LOL!

All the while countering your enemy’s Electronic Warfare.

The F-16 Fighting Falcon is one awesome airplane.

24:45, the Technicals you speak of are Land Cruisers

Good job at this. Do you work 12 hrs a day to real ese so many videos. Get some rest we don't want you to die of a heartattack

I think we’re going to get to the point where loss of equipment and infrastructure determines the victor of wars, not loss of citizens and soldiers.

6:31 pause and you can see the detail before payload

Remote controlled drones of all kinds (air, sea, ground) can be very cost-effective and lower risk tools on front lines or to go far behind them. The next jump for which tech already exists and is quickly ramping in capabilities is autonomous drone swarms that can just get objectives or a set of objectives and coordinate movement patterns and goal/target/objective delegation between each other. Now imagine a few larger remote controlled or autonomous carrier drones that instead of or addition to munitions or explosives carry pods of small, agile and short range suicide drones with just one explosive shape-charge or a small number of charges that can be dropped individually or set off together, getting dropped across a strategically important target like an a key infrastructure point, military base or supply lines. As long as a couple of drone pods make it and deploy near the target, good luck defending against 50-100++ 10g (anti-personel, door/window breakers) - 100g (individual objective neutralizers) range flying high-explosive charges. Maybe even throw in a few 1kg range explosive carrying larger drones as fast followers after the initial wave(s) neutralize softer defenders and barriers to take out reinforced targets. In one way, this may be useful for resource savings for the higher tech industrialized militaries, but the big danger is this increases capabilities of lower funding militaries or non-state actors that may want to carry out offensives that didn't have the economy to support, or larger scale terror attacks.

Takes more then a explosive speed boat to sink a vessel with a well trained crew and comprehensive damage control training. Both of which can't be found in Russia. That being said, it would be a mission kill, which may be just as good.

please do a video on these (this is a copy and paste list for a few channels) history of south Russia (just above caucuses) how Mongolia helped Russia in ww2 and cold war, greek life under rome, Mongolia life under china, and later in ww2/cold war and mabey a little on modern units and tactics/evaluation of loadouts of troops (from different jobs (and other branches) like the 82 snd 101 airborne units or infantry tank units, (or when tanks were assigned a infantry unit like i think earlier war Russia then all tanks were formed into there own units wich meant the infantry no longer knew the true strength of there own tanks but alowed tank units to fight more efficiently) the evaluation of tank doctrine of countries evaluation of tanks/armored vehicles of different countries evaluation of aircraft types of different countries, different between navil and army/air force fighters logistics units of the axes and allied powers in ww2 ww1 estern front tactics Russian Civil war tactics and strategies navil ship cross sections (all the rooms and how it all works) evaluation of types of ships or evaluation of navil warfare (or just dedectsded videos on ww1 and ww2 navil doctrine as theres stuff out there on other times of history) air craft carrier strike group formations exsamples (from different countries) ancient persan ships, ancient veneti ships (gauls that fought ceaser) ships used by genoa and the vernesain republic the vernesain republic government all sailing ships, (i know theres many on yt but some contradict each other and i think theres more left out) ancient macenean greek and trojan troops 2b9 vasilyok morter tactics used so far in the Ukraine war, better for squads to be 2 teams of 5 or 3 teams of 3, and probably the easiest, better to keep troops well feed or starved like an animal how dose age effect comsnders eg napoleon got older so took less risks, ancient urban warfare ww2 tactics in Asia, tactics in the Chinese age of warlords, (and Chinese civil war) tactics in the ruso jap war cold war navil tactics, Korean war tactics, strange tactics or unque battles from the American war of independence and America civil how were 17th centry sailing ships build comands given on sailing ships (like ease the sheets and get ready to chine, or slack n beases, basically things you hear movie capitns say) why did the nazis never return (or a video on best occupations) why did the Japanese empire fall, dont just say "America" like things like how there army and navy argued alot alot more on the Polynesians and māori, but please learn pronounceations if you do this

The shroud of the rifle has fallen. Begun, the drone war has

Add stealth and a smart sub munitions , very hard to fefeat.

I wonder why we need pilots to be inside the planes anymore? It doesn't seem impossible to have the pilot control it remotely. The biggest problem that comes to mind is latency and even that does't seem that bad since something like the f35 doesn't need to dogfight. Tight outro btw.

They are literally using cardboard drones in Ukraine. I believe they are made in Australia.

“War, war never changes” So, according to a video game. You dead wrong buddy.

Good video 😮😮

@6:12 You might have 60k drones, but there's still the logistics footprint and manpower needed to equip 60k drones...

In World War II the Germans used an unmanned tracked vehicle to suicide bomb. It was called the goliath pretty interesting.

Back in 2014, when I was 18, people called me stupid or childish for wanting the U.S army to get hundreds of cheap drones, attach a granade, or some explosive, or build a plane around an RPG round and crash it into vehicles. That was my thought of warfare then, now, 10 years later, it's a thing in Ukraine and Russia

You mean to tell me that fallout lied to me??! I wouldn't think so! War.Never.Changes