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I can't find the link, but I saw a video of a training exercise where an F-35 dropped a shit-ton of autonomous drones, and they circled until they each had an individual target, then plunged right into them.
Fuck that. You have zero warning because you can't see the F-35 and you can't see the drones until they turn your lights off.
Homies acting like the US hasn't been bombing places with drones since 2003
Shaheds Russia is bombing Ukraine with right now are an Iranian copy of a captured Sentinel drone
These were different. Real small and about a hundred of them. Its a continuation of weapon system they used in Iraq, where a munition would be shot over a position and release a hundred little guided bombs. Now it's just guided bombs and a shitton of the fuckers.
No I'm agreeing with you.
I'm responding to people sweating about these "new" capabilities like the US has been caught by surprise.
F18
Yeah! That's it!! Fucking wild!
Edit: wait till the end and you can hear the sound of unseen death
If the F-35 is operating within small drone range, it's probably detectable on infrared tbh. If it's a larger drone, then there's not really much of an advantage of launching it by F-35 because you'd probably be outside of radar range anyway. The F-35 is most useful when it IS accomplishing the role of CAS because it has the benefit of a pilot.
As it stands, I feel like the primary role of jets today is to maintain aerial superiority to drop heavy bombs (which are far cheaper than building an equivalent drone).
The secret here is the word "drop". As in drop them on drones beyond their limit maximum height.
Even cheap consumer-grade FPV drones (e.g. from DJI) have a service ceiling of like 6km. They're just legally not allowed to fly that high lol.
Sorry Maverick you can't drop the drone because it's forbidden in the Terms of Service, over.
It would release them about a mile out. I'll see if I can find it. I sent it to a friend a while back.
That's going to be easily within infrared detection distance, right? Sounds like it would only work against insurgents who don't have access to advanced guided munitions.