This drone fad is over. Only UGVs remain an issue.

We already have laser systems that can recognize mosquitos and zap them. Any hardpoint with a serious power grid is going to have lasers zapping drones out of the sky in the next 5-10 years. Warfare in the next 10-20 years is gonna be infantry fighting between nightmarish fortifications full of CIWS and AI image recognition S2A missile systems that would require an IRBM to take out.

>>63965145 (OP)
>Have drone fly over your head 2km high with a bomb
>Have drones approach simulat* from multiple angles low to the ground
They are here to stay, they immunized the battlefield against boring mechanized warfare and brought back cool ww1 style trenches

>>63965188
Any drone 2km up in the air is gonna be some unmanned aircraft that even the Houthis could knock out.

>>63965188
>flies high up
This is against the rules of War. You can't do this.

>>63965145 (OP)
Warfare probably won't even be a lethal thing in the future. Just use ai with a series of botnets to erode the culture and society of the country you don't like. Cause isolation, extremism, mental disorders, depression, etc. on a societal level while using a flood of ai to make socializing impossible for people, especially old people (the voter/money base) and young people (the military age people/future of the nation). Make the political system worthless and evil in the eyes of the average citizen. You don't even need to care about who's in charge, as long as you can consistently convince the populace that the wrong guy got the job, whether because he's weak, malevolent, or a puppet of some other country. Maybe yours.
Hell, a clear narrative isn't even necessary to cause issues. Just drowning out all human conversation with ai-generated slop should be enough not just to stifle a people's resolve, but also make the act of communicating less interesting or viable. And don't forget the constant ai-assisted forgery of collusion; if you can convince an enemy nation that someone on their side is totally a spy or saboteur for yours, that nation will happily get rid of the person for you.
I imagine warfare in the future being just a giant psyop over who can cause the most teen suicides, mass shootings, elderly scam calls, and overall feelings of impotent fatigue from halfway across the world. Fighting with weapons is becoming obsolete when words can tear a people apart.

>>63965145 (OP)
>Ugv Shoot down uav
>UGV's last known coordinate gets plowed by mortar ugv, camera and hydraulic caught shrapnels and shits fucked.
>Same fate happened to mortar ugv of they are in other mortar ugv or howizbot's range
AI war will be so efficient in time, any direct contact devolves into chess trade at projectile speed.

>>63965863
can't mortar a moving target (probably), just drive faster lul

so you're saying your system can probably be defeated by using several drones approaching from different directions? did you forget how cheap drones are?

>>63966070
bring multiple guns

>>63965884
Ai may become advanced enough that unless you randomize speed it will try to predict where the target will be and mortar those areas.

>>63965884
They can but uav most likely would move in loose skirmish line. One uav down raise alarm the rest which react by surround the area and park on some branch. if the ugv leaves then it would be seen by a parked uav that continues to update coordinatess.

People who can afford it just aren’t gonna use ground troops anymore. And air fields will be hardened. Drones will only be used to fly into crowds of civilians.

>>63966090
But we're friends with Australia?

>>63965145 (OP)
.50 seems like overkill
I think a caseless or telescoped round that has a 5.56, or smaller diameter projectile, that is high velocity and is fired at a high cyclic rate would be ideal. Instead of one or two .50bmg rounds, send a burst of five to ten micro caliber rounds.

>>63966762
>ten micro caliber rounds
>a caseless or telescoped round
Instead of this we will be using ammo that is plentiful and cheap so as to actually be an economical solution to drones

>>63966708
Not if you dont stop playing funny beggars with those subs

>>63965177
Will wild birds still exist in the future?

>>63965759
I aint reading your slop

>>63967158
birds will just have to evolve laser resistant feathers

>>63967158
camouflaging your drone as a bird is a war crime

>>63965759
Fucking hell.

>>63965759
Honestly, the 21st century has proved that this is the most devastating form of warfare, because your enemy cannot recover from it in a single lifespan. If this is the future, the only real defense may be to fortress your country and heavily control outside contact. Run your own intranet, for your own people.

>>63965884
>can't mortar a moving target
Guided mortars. Also tiny missiles

>>63967043
It's funny BUGGERS

>>63965759
Only a problem for secular societies. The West will just return to put on the whole armor of God and prevail. Jesus is king.

>>63968536
Religion is like the easiest thing the subvert you fucking retard.

>>63965145 (OP)
Why put an M2 when M230LF has a programmable ammunition and better ballistics while having a similar recoil?