I hate modern tech. When I was naiver I would see this project as incredibly cool and fascinating; I still think is very cool from a technical perspective. But knowing where and how it’ll be used, is just sad.
This will be used in terror attacks.
hmmmmmmmmmm what’s that green box in the corner say? squints
Oh look another one…
Isn’t this from Terminator: sarah Connor chronicles?
So the resistance will have to move underground, literally.
Ooh, movie idea: a take on The Most Dangerous Game where some rich dude uses an AI system to hunt humans for sport but the AI, being programmed to hunt something dangerous, determines that the rich dude is now the target because he’s the one setting the whole thing up. Tables are turned. Maybe the rich dude now finds himself in the trenches with the poor folks he’d captured?
JurrasicThe Most Dangerous ParkYour comment illustrates the difference between sci-fi and fantasy.
In a timeline where the US war machine, among others, continues to function exactly like an infinite money glitch; we get to experience the privilege of watching an ever accelerating boom of brilliant innovations, all with the shared purpose of continuing to drive humanity backwards.
As it has ever been. Radar. GPS. Digital imagery. Friggin microwave ovens. All military-first inventions.
The internet
I read an interesting article that said our current scifi dystopia trajectory is more along the lines of Philip K. Dick than Asimov or Huxley. If you haven’t seen screamers you might want to check it out. Basically there’s a war between a megacorporation and a union of scientists, so the scientists invent autonomous drones that kill everything with a heart beat and of course the drones become sentient.
Theodore Kaczynski knew things.
In GPS and RF denied environments too. You know, your typical search and rescue scenario.
In the very mild defense of this application, in a natural disaster situation, communications often are interrupted. Not GPS, though.
The picture they provided literally says “Armed” and “Target LOCKED” in the corners of the screen.
Yeah, for lack of a better explaination, GPS is just yelled at you from space everywhere on earth.
That’s a great way to put it. Your personal device probably can’t show a map without network because it doesn’t have that map downloaded, but it does know your coordinates. I doubt that’s a problem S&R has, though.
Hm depends maybe for caves
ahh yes, for those search and rescue scenarios where someone is running away from you in a dense forest in a cave, in case you end up needing to perform rescues on the Terraria planet
Or maybe … Under water!
But for real caves are a very problematic area and having something self driven solves many of them. I am not talking about big caves here but small ones that are liked by cave divers to die in.
Drone companies tend to be truly awful at cybersecurity. These drones will probably be relatively easy to disable.
The issue is that they will also be relatively easy to seize control of, as well as that those in control of them to begin with will have malicious intent.
These would be a fun target for an oxyacetylene air vortex cannon, though.
I already hear Amodei spilling warnings about rogue AIs taking over drones.
You are being rescued, do not resist!
This is a kindness
==Arming Warhead==
Isn’t that top left picture also showing a “Armed” tag right at the top‽
Silly billy, that just means it is armed to rescue you ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
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This is not a kindness
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No need. It’s already
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Welcome to ICE Rescue Center #7806
I’m surprised that mass produced drone swarms haven’t been deployed against populations yet. The economics of it is terrifying.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been casual assassinations outside of war zones with them yet.
There is this YouTube short movie about a future like that. The tiny drone just flies into someone’s face with a small explosion to kill them.
I remember playing black ops 2 a long time ago and when a friend of mine played, he always used the drone swarm killstreak.
I remember him laughing once about how the map we were on barely had cover from them.
I told him he won’t be laughing when it’s us trying to run from a drone swarm in 20 years for stealing a rich cunt’s clean water.
Then we laughed at just how ridiculous that sounded.
I remember playing black ops 2 a long time ago
I told him he won’t be laughing when it’s us trying to run from a drone swarm in 20 years
Well, CoD: Black Ops II came out in 2012, so if this tech gets commercialized in six years you’ll be spot-on.
I miss when it was funny 😭
Ha, they’d never do that…
btw, Have you noticed camo netting has gotten crazy expensive? Must just be inflation
Who gives a shit about nets those things have infrared heat detection.
Any tiny propellers that get snagged in nets.
And sometimes the bigger ones too:
Excellent point I hadn’t thought of that.
Emphasis on camo. They have some ir blocking.
To a point. The heat has to go somewhere.
That’s why you need to use a survival blanket as an inner layer to reflect the heat, some neutral-colored canvas as a middle-layer, and the camo netting as an outer layer. Preferably with a few inches of separation between each one.
Maybe add in some faraday fabric if you have anything that emits signals
And an SDR on a raspberry pi with some python libraries to scan for incoming threats.
It’s not perfect but it’s better than being a sitting duck
Great ideas imo
Hmmm. Problem I see with that is the thermal blanket reflects IR away from itself, so if you are inside of it, you still heat up.
Yes, and that keeps the warmth inside the tent, so that it’s not visible to IR from the outside.
You can test it first if you have an IR lens. If you’re handy with solder you can build one with parts from arduino, mouser or similar
Oh, I meant that it essentially gets hotter over time. If you’re on the move, that could become a problem pretty fast
We’ll see these kinds of things in the next war. Russia and Ukraine would be there already if they had time to stockpile the drones rather than needing to deploy them as fast as they can be manufactured.
With a few years of peace to build a reserve, there will more than enough drones and cheap spring-assisted launchers to serve as a terrifying new arm of MAD.
Can we just have world peace instead?
What are you willing to give for that?
Would anything I offer be enough?
If you dedicate your life to it, it could be.
I’m not sure. Wars are won by costing the enemy’s money these days. So they are using drones on infrastructure, becuase that costs more than soldiers.
Regardless of how wars are won, they are prevented by altering the risk picture for the enemy.
This is also why many smaller NATO states are scrambling to procure long-range missiles outside of US control. In a hybrid war with Russia, they would control the escalation ladder - I.e. be able to yeet some high explosives at powerplants and fuel depots - rather than relying on Washington to grant permission.
Ukraine has been doing similar with the flamingo and other cruise ‘missile drone’ projects. Iran as well - look at their response to US aggression.
The trajectory is clear, mass precision strike is cheap and corresponding defense is not. Having a stockpile of millions of flying problems for your enemy to consider is the best deterrent short of nuclear weapons.
Right, but I thought you were saying we would see these things to the posts drones that can follow humans through the forest, not the general drones for hitting nonhuman targets.
Ukraine built 8 million drones in the first half of 2026. Many different types, but the majority of them are designed to directly attack humans and light vehicles.
The limiting factor in their deployment is the number of operators - currently the most common operating model is 1 drone per operator at a time, which means there are only so many drones in the air at the same time. These kinds of hunting algorithms will allow the scale of drone warfare to increase by loosening the operator bottleneck.
There is force generation (recruitment, manufacturing, organization, etc.) and force employment (actually using those resources to achieve goals). Force generation for unmanned systems is already mature - again we are making millions of these things already - further advancement will come in force employment.
And what a fresh hell that will be.
Ukraine built 8 million drones in the first half of 2026.
What the fuck
The only way we can fight back is in tunnels. None of us know how to build tunnels.
Didn’t take long to recreate the movie Runaway. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/
