Thread 64211908

How did the US fall behind in drone technology?

Implessive

>>64211908 (OP)
Our ones actually fly,
https://youtu.be/zmUrEP0ET6w
Anduril's one is testing sometime this month.

>>64211908 (OP)
>posts temu us drones at home
kek

We've been landing our ones on carriers for 12 years

>>64211922
forgot picrel

>>64211908 (OP)
>China demonstrating that they've finally developed the technology to copy the Global Hawk (but not really, which is why they aren't flying)
>US demonstrating that it's not actually impossible for a first world country to build shitty temu drones

it's joever

>>64211908 (OP)
>Develop technology
>Old brass refuse to let "pilots die" never figure out what to use it for
>Years pass and old brass retire
>Other countries catch up
>Oh shit wtf were we doing
Pretty this is pretty much the state if US MIC with every project that the US had some prototype in the 00's. We either didn't know what the fuck were doing, didn't know what the fuck we want, or didn't know how the future wars were going to be fought cause we had GWOT up in our face. Same shit with the new Army rifle trying to fight the previous war. It's dogshit.

>2025
>I am forgotten by chinkshills

>>64211953
Didn't the Houthis shoot down 20+ of them during Operation Prosperity Guardian?

>>64211958
Yes, you think the Chinese drones are any different? We've been flying these things since 2006 bud.

>>64211908 (OP)
No brains in USA.

>>64211949
The difference is you can just open a binder and resume a program that has undergone a full spectrum of tests and fit it to a now known mission set as opposed to scrambling and throwing R&D money at a brand new thing.

>>64211908 (OP)
Every one of those Chinese drones is a copy or attempt to catch up to an American UCAV that already exists or is in service.

>>64211971
Actually you can't because engineers get fired and move on, contractors go out of business, and the technology itself becomes outdated.
You need to strike while the iron is hot.

>>64211962
Learn grammar chinkshill, also planes crash, get over it. 1200 F-35s and counting in service and the safest record of all time.

>>64211976
Which one did they copy for this one? It has all moving wingtips and no tail. So which one did they copy?

>>64211908 (OP)
Because America isn't in the game of 300 meter engagement anymore, they're more a 1500 meter engagement with their M7s. That's about the same range of a 50lb man portable drone disruptor.

>>64211978
Cope, this isn't some NASA scatterbrain program. Boeing restarted harpoon production in the 2020s using designs from the 70s, LM and NG did the same for Hellfires and AMRAAMS, so we're block 72 F-16s.

>>64211999
>Doesn't know that fiber optics drones can fit targets to to 20-50km away by using Chinese fiber optic spools

>>64212014
Why Chinese specifically? The Ukies have been using them for years atp. It's not some groundbreaking thing.

>>64212014
>he doesn't know about drone internals getting fried
>he forgot that air superiority would render all drone capability useless
>he thinks a drone can hit an ac130

>>64211908 (OP)
>Chinks finally managed to copy early 2000 US drone tech
KEK

>>64211908 (OP)
There's too much overlap with civilian drones for grenade-droppers and small FPV drones to be sufficiently patentable and profitable.
Unless a contractor can deliver a gold-plated premium exclusive, it's not's worth it.

>>64212064
What will happen is the US will 3D print the bodies and contract out the motor, chips etc.

>>64211962
changs army currently stands at
killing chinese to establish maoism
killing chinese for cultural revolution
killing sparrows to kill chinese
losing to vietnamese communists
being cucked by smaller taiwan (real china)
and losing to niggers in africa while serving the great satan of UN

>>64212065
A cgi render again?

>>64211908 (OP)
You're so ass blasted filthy chink shill

>>64211908 (OP)
a LOT of people are just making fun of this nerfed American parade nobody really wanted. I guarantee you Chinas parade cost like 10 billion minimum. If we spent 10B on just showing off tanks we would have had literal riots.

>>64212357
This, we haven't had a parade since the turn of the century. Last proper one was after the Gulf War. No one need parades when half the voter base wants distance the military from the American people as much as possible.

>>64211958
>Didn't the Houthis shoot down 20+ of them during Operation Prosperity Guardian?
Most estimates put them at ~14-17, only the Houthis themselves say 20+.