Watch the latest episode of equipped on the six-bladed “knife-bomb” that is revolutionizing precision warfare: on.wsj.com/4bROkrh

$2M for a 15' drone? Is a hammer still costibg the US Taxpayer $2000?.

I love watching videos on the rich people's network showing me where my tax dollars go and what they do with the money they consistently inflate out of my meager savings via deficit spending (a not so hidden tax). At least WSJ is honest - war is about money and they cover money stories so it's very appropriate they are the leaders in this reporting genre 💰

Surprise, surprise, even WSJ falls for BS regarding a "Ninja Bomb", more than likely based not on rational and vetted facts but instead on rumors that originated with "video game warriors.". The actual weapon is a very small TBX warhead placed inside a mostly empty, AGM-114 ("hellfire") type air-frame. The missile was modified specifically to lower the cost of the original AGM-114 (which was meant to be used against tanks and heavily armored targets) while also significantly reducing "collateral damage", when used for "targeted individual personnel" (i.e. targeted assassination). due to the much lighter warhead, the missile's center of gravity as well as center of dynamic stability changed, requiring an aerodynamic stabilization solution, in the form of the six expandable knife-like wings protruding from the missile body frontal section. The "Ninja Myth" is nothing but stupid conjecture information proliferated on the Internet by substandard "drone journalists"...

Almost $10k for a standard 155mm shell??? "$2-3 million is the sweet spot." ??? I retired from a manufacturing executive career. "Sweet spot" = It matches our capabilites at a high profit margin, while being priced so the customer doesn't notice. That phrase says it all. I'm reminded of the last years of WWII. Germany put its faith in "wonder weapons ", while the Russians just kept producing artillery and tank shells and grinding up the Divisions of Germans and their allies, like the Ukrainian Banderites. Anyone else see this?

Every government contract for planes or Missiles ...Go with the original budget and multiple it by 2.5 times ..... That will be the true budget

I'm suprised I haven't seen a drone shaped like a shark with movable fins.

It's interesting, but there is so much sales language in here that I expect the script was modified and approved by marketing from the companies. There is a lot of...not technically wrong, but objectove/misleading stuff...good, but...too much corporate sales language

very well done

The Triton submersible drone should have a self-destruct feature if captured. Why risk one falling into the hands of the enemy?

$2~$3m per small remotely boat? No wonder how easy it is to steal the bank this day.

How about self destruction abilities so the enemy doesn't have our technology?

a limerick. A stealthy boat called the Triton Could sail and submerge like Poseidon. Though cheap to attrit, Its sensors were lit, Giving intel that sailors would write on.

What comfortable times for weapons manufacturers 💩

The Booker, sounds like it will be destroyed immediately with modern drone warfare.

This series is great! I’m hooked

Technically interesting, emotionally scary 😨

This is just what they want you to see. Wonder how far classified technology has gone nowadays

So, Booker tank is the newer kind of Sherman tank?

This is the best documentry video I have ever watched

The Booker looking like drone catnip, lol.

All of these combatants will become exhausted to the point of just fading

There still stuck on stupid because the reason why drones are so much better is because how cheap they are. 10k for enemy drones vs Valkry at 5 to 10 million.

A Triton is the same cost as Tomahawk? That’s way too high.

One question what engine does it have? Does it light up from low orbit sats like the abrams? (Due to the jet enginge)

How are the Houthi launching cruise missiles while keeping the range advantageous? Not from planes me thinks….

at 2:49 "tantamount" - I think he means "paramount"

Funny, but you, guys, completely forgot about new TOS-2, that fires rockets x3 further (~18 km) and is already out there.

My grandma used to live by a missile testing sight in Marin California. She said she could see them testing the rockets right above the ground and putting them back.

Ai is going to be the death of humanity 😭😭😭😭

America will never admit it's losing a war

Cheaper, but will the projectiles pierce the armor as well as the M1A2 120mm main gun projectile also crew safety which tank better serves that?

Great reporting thanks for sharing!❤❤❤❤❤

When the WSJ is posting videos about military weapons, understand that both parties know exactly what's coming up next.

2 TO 3MILLS FOR A PLASTIC RC toy boat while other countries prioritize quantities and affordability... The MIC is ruining the USA.

Why not use D5 on land? It can even be encapsulated in a sub tube and moved to different silos, maintenance yards and mobile deployment platforms.

Anyone know what the knife is the guy is using at 5:39? It sounds like it was vibrating to cut or am I hearing things?

My type of journalism. Good video

Verry well done video. Easy to fallow

Journalist: "Will the Triton be weaponized?" Company rep: "That depends what the customer wants to do..." Me: Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

The problem with GLSDB is that it was rushed into production and wasn't ready yet. Ukrainians have not used it much because they found that the Russians GPS jammers were taking it off course. They were missing and that is a problem. Russian EW is good despite having a horrible army in general.

Really enjoy this type of informative content 👍

How about top protection for drone defense?

Meanwhile Putin is hiring dolphins and orcas; and they work for free.

In the time it allegedly takes to build one factory to make a few 155mm shells today, WWII would be half way through and multiple factories would have been built in months producing 100s of times more shells of different calibres.

Meanwhile, Russia is dominating the battlefield with shovels and washing machines....

The Triton should have a camera at the tip of the sail in addition to the weatehr data sensors. That extra height can significantly increase its line of sight, especially if you have large waves. I think it would be helpful to have a thermite device to destroy sensitive equipment is captured. It wouldn't hurt if the thermite also burns through the deck of the the capturing vessel. lol The M-10 Booker does not need anywhere near as much protection as the M-1 Abrams. Because the Booker is an infantry fire support vehicle, it really should be behind an infantry screen and never infront of the infantry, in theory. In contrast, the M-1 is intended to exploit breakthroughs, and therefore potentially expoied from all directions. To a large extent, some of its defense lies in its speed. While the ICBM silos are spread out over 4 states, silos are also purposely clustered locally. The individual silos are spaced sufficiently apart that a single incoming warhead can not destroy two silos. However, they are close enough that the detonation of an incoming warhead may destroy (or at the very least, knock off course) other incoming warheads targeting the other silos. The silos are in teh ground and hardened. The incoming warheads are in teh air and unprotected. It should be noted that the Arleigh-Burkes are not solely dependent on the AN/SPY-1. They can also take targetting data from other assets, such as ground radar, AWAC, or even a F-35. This may give the Arleigh-Burke more reaction time, especially against terrain following cruise missiles. While Russia was using five times the artillery shells than Ukraine, better artillery spotting, combined with much more accurate artillery, has allowed Ukraine to almost approach artillery parity with Russia.

Does anyone know if the Booker tank has the Trophy Protection System or similar?

That's correct Iran, you get toy solar powered boats to combat your Navy 😂.

It would be awesome to see a similar video on breakthroughs of educational technology to see how we're preparing kids to make good use of this destructive tech.

how many can fit in it would make sesnse as an evac vehicle too if there is no air support. I am guessing they are safe but you need to splice fiber optic cable but copper cable can just be induced through currents from the surface you just need something that can penetrate the ground electrically.

Am I the only one thinking the narco tech teams watched this in their brainstorming session 😂

Wow, this insight into war tech is eye-opening 🌐

"Thank you WSJ for the new tech" - Chinese navy

I assume we believe our adversaries already knows about this tech, otherwise why are we advertising it?

This is the same drone we see being tow by an Iranian small navy boat without nobody doing nothing about it.

The US has been using thermobaric weapons since the Vietnam War. In recent years they have conveniently renamed them as "novel explosive" to avoid bad PR. Hundreds of thermobaric Hellfire missiles have been used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria - often in urban areas with little regard for civilian casualties.

That unmanned could be a stealthy sub, and it is hard to be hunt!

When there is a new model order, I would hope allowance is made for in line first order improvements should such occur prior to completion of a first order. Seems to me, if significant, any feasible improvements should be added to the first model if caught in time; rather than simply waiting until the first order is finished as ordered. Seems wasteful to complete any order without known improvements being incorporated, just for the sake of preserving the completeness of the first, or any order. Rather, when a significant improvement can be added to the original order, simply negotiate the cost adjustment, add the improvement to the remain see of the first order, calling it a 10A. After that, pray tell, include those improvements and any subsequent others into a second model grouping for future orders.

This is more of an advert for defence contractors than anything else

Upgraded Bradleys supporting Bookers, supported by Abrams. That is one hellova force to be reckoned with.

I think there is a bit of confusion about the Russian tanks reactive armor (pictured) and the shells used by the auto loader, which is internal to the tanks. Fun video that is also informative, thanks!

You can always make sure the command to use weapons has to be givin while everything else is autonomous. Maybe the drone relays target information and then a person in another aircraft or on the ground issues the command. So the drone relays the information and then a human picks the play or strategy to attack the target. Make it so the drone can't enable armed and ready to fire mode without a human. Doesn't have to be optional. Even with man in a cockpit a drone can do many autonomous functions. Tracking, targeting. All before allowed to fire by a physical switch. Or a man does some task while the Ai does others. The neat thing is. With larger drones that they normally remote control anyway. A supercomputer burried in a mountain near a nations borders can remote control the drones through the same satellite link by taking over the remote control when we hand the controls over and read all sensor data from all aircraft such as drones and whatever and come up with better strategies including how to jam or avoid jamming. So a supercomputer can bring anything we have just one frame of information about from any sensor a man may have missed to the attention of a man who can make a decision. Good thing Nvidia with the new Blackwell technology made a new chip that with just one rack on a server or datacenter is more powerful than the current most powerful supercomputer and it's Ai at 1.4 escale for one rack and supercomputers usually have many racks. So within a few years tops we will be beyond exoscale to the next scale There is no way to know if a man is piloting something inside or remotely or autonomously. And no way to verify any of this without spilling other military secrets about any aircraft. Because you would need insoections of hardware and possibly software to verify. Then add in with SSD's you can hot swap datasets / instruction sets. For example a drone learns from humans and from flying and doing missions. Then you can swap out the SSD and review everything at a base. Then you can decide if the algorithms the drone learned are good enough to go to a whole fleet or if you want to tweak. Then anytime a mission needs something else entirely. Swap the SSD's out and new ones in and ready to go wants weapons or other equipment is loaded. And that would spherehead any attempt at knowing if an adversary is using ai because they could swap in a dumber system software set within minutes. I figured at minimum supercomputers will help man and optionally take over the remote control a man normally uses. Just the processing of all image data and mapping faster and more efficiently than humans is a major bonus. And this doesn't have to be outside of any internal ai the drone as for when there is no communication. For example. During jamming the drone can complete the task and fly home because of terrain mapping it does while flying and also having maps preloaded from satellites including the live maps when not jammed from satellites. There is nothing stopping us from doing any of this. The hardest part is finding a good setup where we don't always allow the drones to have control but is only optional when needed. For example. We are in a bad war. Maybe it even went nuclear. Well we can use autonomous drones for when we need a direct hit but we couldn't survive the mushroom cloud. A man could fly it all the way to target optionally unless it gets jammed at the last minute. Sure we won't let AI be in control of nukes but if a war is bad enough. We may need to hit a hardened target precisely. For this a drone could get low and dive to the target with controlled flight. Either release a weapon or be the weapon. Works even better if it's stealth.

I want to see more of th m10 booker

Basically, technology like drones, guided glide bombs, and constant surveillance capabilities means armour is useless now. It goes to show how hopeless it is for infantry and armoured personnel in a modern conflict. You are sitting ducks to people in computer rooms far away from the front lines. Nothing but meat shields.

We need to focus our energy and attention towards more force field shields in the Battlefield.

Ideal for gas pipe lines under the sea. Specs on this thing are mine blowing 😂

War is not meant to be won it is meant to be Continuous

Letmegetthisright. Russia fires 20-30,000 shells Per Day and the US went into this mess producing only 14,000 shells per Month ? Half a day's supply. And it will only reach a three day supply/Month in Two Years ( while Russia will again have increased its production over that time). Meanwhile the Ukrainian ground forces advance WW1 style into this baffling barrage WITH NO AIR SUPPORT. 47:00 Humanitary Concerns ? Lets give Ukr. Cluster Munitions that drop indiscriminate landmines covering Donbas. eg: "Some 4 million to 6 million land mines and other unexploded munitions are estimated to have littered Cambodia's countryside" WSJ: Where is your Adult Assessment of the current US Administration ?

Can the Trition escape fishermans net?

Does the booker come with a ejecting turret like the Russian tanks

I am surprised that Russians do not know that Tuborg beer is a known Danish brand which is owned by Carlsberg.

USA should probably focus more on electronic warfare and drone defense.

38:46 🤔 We can really just tell it to penetrate for a lil while… and then explode. Awesome updates for old technology like me.

Cartels watching the submarine drones like :🤤

Cool, 1 Hour of Taxpayer's Investment Presentation!

If the triton take out ccp landing craft it could be pretty useful

GLSDB is susceptible to Russian jamming and Ukraine has since stopped using it. Why not mention that?

Mistake in this video, these DDGs and CG's with the aegis radar system in combat center can actually use the weapon systems on other ships as well

GLSDB missiles are counter measured by Russian jamming.

Imagine the clean up after the 155. 200,000 a month. JFC Hope for the planet is fading

An interesting indeth of technological knowledge!

I am a drone pilot and retired chef, if you can get me out there, I'll do what's needed.

Such big muscles and such small faded brain that commands all this power.

3 to 4 million not expensive? what world is this guy living in?

Any chance we can get helmets that protect from the effects of thermobaric weapons?

Regarding the booker Tank platform. Good idea compared with a Abrams but was not the STRIKER system invisioned to do that job what now is planed for the Booker? What happened to the STRIKER project?

They say "counter adversaries" , but they just meddle around for decades so they are the "adversaries" everywhere...

So in Ukraine the drone war is getting scary. The soldiers getting attacked by those drones don't always see them. Sometimes they go about their business and even looked right at the drone above there head and didn't even notice. Then when not having designated targets. They go out on hunts with drones 24x7. Day and night. Then the scary parts is seeing drones do circles soldiers trying to get away from and trying to hit with sticks. But the drone operator is toying with them because he could have already hit the button to kill him. Then goes in for the kill and target eliminated. Or other footage i seen where a guy hides from a drond behind a tree but doesn't see the drone behind him. Other things i seen on different media is how they also use land drones to go bomb them in foxholes or land drones to sometimes recover aircraft drones by hooking up and hauling them back. Ukraine is a lot more experienced with the smaller civilian sized drones for combat than we are. Then add Russia is always on the hunt for drones. You sometimes hear them but can't pinpoint exactly where they are and you hope they don't see you. Other things i seen is that sometimes when Ukraine launches drones into Russia then they get jammed. Keep going and then sometimes unjam after they are outside of jamming range and regain control. And if you see one drone there is usually several around. They fly in buildings with blown out windows or opened doors or blown out ealls and everything else to hit there targets such as men on foot. Oddly the drones have been fairly accurate and most of the time hitting their targets. I see at least one that managed to fly the drone in the tank hatch itself. I seen other footage where another drone swings around. Stops for a second then darts at a Russian tank and the turret blows off. Sometimes they are strapping old RPG style grenades to them for the tanks. Drone Still light enough to carry and blow up a Russian tank. They only need the explosive part of the rpg. When jammed they send more drones out while sitting in a bunker and keep trying. The video feed usually gets jammed first. They use one drone that not dji brand. That has the target tracking and stuff some consumer drones have. Usually they replace optics with better optics. Infrared or whatever. I been watching a lot of the journalist videos that came out recently. Like Darwin's war from scripps news. It's about Ukraine's ace fpv pilot. And several other journalist shows about drones on the front lines in Ukraine that all came out within the last month or 2. I forgot to add. When jammed they keep sending more out until successful. Then maybe the first few came up short but they only need one to make it to the target. So after a few drones or so they got the target despite the jamming.

Ukraine has found the GLSDB does not work when fired from artillery. They have had to modify them to use as air-dropped and in that capacity work real well... but when fired from artillery, they simply don't work.

imagine a stealthed version of the triton, armed with enough explosive to silently attach to an enemy submarine and blow a huge hole in its side. This obviously would explosively decompress the sub and destroy it. Wow! A 3-5 million dollar weapon system like that able to take out an enemy sub that costs a thousand times more to build and operate!

1. Russia is saying they will use nuclear weapons first if NATO countries attacks them directly 2. Putin is scared of NATO conventional superiority 3. Russia focuses more on Nukes Everyone knows - none of the sides wants to use nukes, because that exchange will kill all of us. Conventional weapons are defensive and offensive, while nukes are considered only as repellent (for enemy to think twice of gambling) Russia is showing weakness in conventional war and the West still call them aggressive? Conventional superiority is sign of aggression, while NUCLEAR THREAT is saying clear words - STEP BACK..

You know someone is getting ripped off when a shell costs more than a car engine

Can we all agree that in the current age, nuclear bombers are effectively obsolete compared to the the other options? Bombers capable of delivering nuclear weapons on the other hand are extremely effective with more conventional bombs and missiles. Just not for dropping a nuclear weapon.

is it fair to say the M10 Booker would be more vulnerable to "Javelin" type weapons?

Imagine how education in the U.S. could be improved if they put a tenth of what they use for weapons production into improving learning.

Why was US military drone operating near Iran? US is half of the world away.

Nice time scale on the x--axis @ 43:43 haha.

Thunderfoot did a video on the Thermobaric weapons,, if you are in the area where the oxygen is depleted, you are also in the lethal blast radius.

@pricedrightkeelsandwheels3591Have you ever looked into adding a tower to your battleship?! It could all be enclosed and painted to improve the battleship theme. Everything besides the bridge. I think the all metal looking enclosed bridge with isinglass windshields would look pretty cool. With the fly by wire setup you have, it makes it super easy to add a second station.