Operation Hellscape is described as US Defense Department’s grand strategy for protecting Taiwan from a massive Chinese military offensive by flooding the zone with thousands of drones.
The Navy has acknowledged conducting exercises very recently where they were testing autonomous craft that can launch from sea-based platforms (e.g., the Digital Talon 3.0 exercise).
There has also been recent investment in autonomous platforms that are designed to operate in "all domains" (e.g., as part of the DoD Replicator initiative which just selected software partners for its second round).
The relative calm/lack of federal response to me only points to one thing - - it IS the feds afterall. We're already passed the era of "I can neither confirm nor deny", active denial IS an option for some programs.
Discuss so that I can enjoy reading your thoughts.
It's not good.
Ultimately no. Short term it will be for national defense, but long term this stuff always gets turned onto the public through the local level or private sector
“Private-public partnership.”
I always love those arrangements because public money builds the infrastructure and a private company gets the profits. "Private -public partnership" is a fancy term for scam
Mussolini’s definition of fascism.