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Europe under extreme duress

ChuckMK23 said:
Get a simple Beretta A300 or 1301 semi auto and pair it with this ammo - you have a quite effective platform!
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This guy attracted a LOT of attention when it demo’d.

www.wired.com

The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here

The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms.
www.wired.com www.wired.com

It’s absolutely just immediate close area protection, but the cheap cost and On/Off level soldier interface so we could give it to anybody made for a lot of good impressions.
 
Lawman said:
This guy attracted a LOT of attention when it demo’d.

www.wired.com

The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here

The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms.
www.wired.com www.wired.com

It’s absolutely just immediate close area protection, but the cheap cost and On/Off level soldier interface so we could give it to anybody made for a lot of good impressions.
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We are so close to a robot war
 
Didn't know Smitty was an O6. Fun fact, I was at dinner the other night and a couple sits next to me at the bar... dude was a dead ringer for Dr. Smith/Jonathan Harris. Nice folks.
 
Brett327 said:
Didn't know Smitty was an O6. Fun fact, I was at dinner the other night and a couple sits next to me at the bar... dude was a dead ringer for Dr. Smith/Jonathan Harris. Nice folks.
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I’m pretty sure his eagles are facing the wrong way.

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Lawman said:
This guy attracted a LOT of attention when it demo’d.

www.wired.com

The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here

The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms.
www.wired.com www.wired.com

It’s absolutely just immediate close area protection, but the cheap cost and On/Off level soldier interface so we could give it to anybody made for a lot of good impressions.
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Only thing I take slight issue with is the guy saying, "The future battlespace is incredible autonomous robots like ours shooting each other. I don’t think there's much room for people with guns.”

Well maybe, maybe not. History has examples of where it was said this or that is the future of warfare only for that not quite to be the case. So if I was him, I'd have said, "The future battlespace is likely to be..." I mean to take and hold ground and perform the logistics and so forth will likely require humans.
 
Who’s to say. As I was googling around, I found that Netflix did a LiS series a few years ago. Watched first episode just now… not bad. Smith is a chick… and an imposter Dr. good times.
 
Random8145 said:
Only thing I take slight issue with is the guy saying, "The future battlespace is incredible autonomous robots like ours shooting each other. I don’t think there's much room for people with guns.”

Well maybe, maybe not. History has examples of where it was said this or that is the future of warfare only for that not quite to be the case. So if I was him, I'd have said, "The future battlespace is likely to be..." I mean to take and hold ground and perform the logistics and so forth will likely require humans.
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Every commander is hyper focused on protection as a war fighting function right now.

It’s a very severe departure with how sort of callous we became to that function during persistent coin. We really liked this system and others because it addressed the low end of the spectrum on deploying elements out amongst the rear areas that were vulnerable enough to need something, but not important enough to soak up a low density high value system.

Stuff like this was literally a semi decent gaming laptop, some power generations, a cool optic that costs a few thousand dollars… This system isnt winning wars like you said, but it’s a multi thousand dollar (budget dust) investment providing protection to stuff you have dispersed that will be necessary to win the war with (ammo cache, heavy equipment parks, sleeping areas, the FARP, etc). The CP will be fine, nobody is leaving that outside an umbrella, it’s all that other stuff I worry about.
 
Interesting article about a possible and recent slight shift in attitude towards RUS.

www.telegraph.co.uk

The full, untold story of Trump’s U-turn on Ukraine

The White House had frozen weapon deliveries to Kyiv. A call from Poland opened the door to billions of dollars in fresh aid
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk

I'm taking from the article that Rubio and Kellogg have been more ascendant and able to convince Trump that Putin is clowning him. Also, that that idiot Witkoff has been sidelined as an unqualified special envoy and that Hegseth has been relegated to doing Crossfit with the troops, renaming bases, firing GO/FO females/blacks, and finding out who's stealing the strawberries in the Pentagon.
 
Brett327 said:
Not sure how those folks are set up pub-wise, but I'm curious why you'd need paper maps if you had a tablet, which wouldn't need GPS to display a map.
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Exactly my thought. In Foreflight you can access and use expired pubs and plates, georectification is just turned off. Same if GPS is unavailable.

I'm surprised they even have paper charts onboard, but considering who she is that might just be a contingency. But even then, unless all onboard systems and tablets failed, which is highly unlikely, I can't see a reason to even pull the paper products out.
 
Also, what about good old radar?

Im not Eurocontrol frequent flyer, but assuming the weather isnt real bad im sure you could get some vectors all the way to landing. From what I understand PARs aren't common at civil fields, but ive been told any major airport can do an "unpublished ASR".

If GPS is out, what's a chart going to do besides give a couple freqs and maybe the radials for an airway? An iPad has all of that way faster.

My imagination likes to think that one pilot went and dug out some dusty charts and the pilot flying used it as a sun shade or coffee coaster while remaining in the 21st century.
 
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