It’s a “fighter”? Are we imagining drones dogfighting? What’s it’s main target?
I guess we doin UAVs now
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SGforce@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Defense budgets.
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 5 days ago
probably brown people in west asia
JillyB@beehaw.org 5 days ago
CCAs or collaborative combat aircraft are the new hotness in military aviation. Basically smaller unmanned fighter jets that work alongside a traditional manned fighter. The idea is that you can have maybe 4 or 5 fighter jets worth of capability but only one of them has a human pilot on board. So the manned fighter can hang back and tell a farther forward one to fire a missile. Is it a wunderwaffen? Is it a boondoggle? Idk man
SGforce@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Which one get’s to carry the spool of fibre optic?
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Some of the constraints imposed on fighter jets is life support and G-force limitations for the pilot. Removing the pilot and allowing an on-board computer handle things in the moment (e.g. dogfights) gives an unmanned jet the upper hand.
It’s obviously a step toward completely automated war machines, but that’s the justification for the “unmanned fighter jet”
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Wildberries.
BrickEater@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Maybe Amazon next?
xylol@leminal.space 5 days ago
Alive things
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Other drones
doleo@lemmy.one 5 days ago
nah, you’re right, it’s clearly delivering medical supplies.
jrwperformance@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Got to replace the head gaskets every 10 flights.
unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 5 days ago
Contrails lookin’ like someone’s hitting all the vapes
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
And if you push it too hard it will shoot a piston out the side
Mac@mander.xyz 5 days ago
That was the old Roos
The modern ones spin bearings from no oil due to oil pickups blocked with RTV
farmgineer@nord.pub 5 days ago
A lot of companies in Japan have a heavy industries branch or similar. Yamaha has all kinds of verticals as they’re happy to sell you a piano or a motorcycle (or both!)
inari@piefed.zip 5 days ago
Major Japanese companies have insane levels of diversification
k0e3@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
It’s not so much diversification, but the fact that many of them were zaibatsu, the only ones able to do anything other than farming. They just had a huuuuge head start.
aeiou@piefed.social 5 days ago
Mitsubishi and it’s offshoots has made everything at one point or another. Paper, drugs, TVs, cars, tanks, planes, submarines…
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
… one of the best fighter planes of World War II…
Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 days ago
The term for it is ‘conglomerate’
0ops@piefed.zip 5 days ago
Subaru used to be a part of Fuji Heavy Industries, who actually started out making aircraft. They’ve since been renamed to simply “Subaru Corporation”, apparently.
kugel7c@feddit.org 5 days ago
SGforce@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Hitachi is the best example
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Now I’ll know if the plane overhead is piloted by a lesbian! Nice!
OpenStars@discuss.online 5 days ago
Lesbian pilots of the world unite - who’s with me!? 🤪
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
miked@piefed.social 5 days ago
This made me giggle.
blibla@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
the advantage of drones is their low price, not the fact fhat they are unmanned
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
The A3-001 is from Saab, not Subaru.
saab.com/…/saab-showcases-full-scale-uncrewed-air…
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Wooo boy does this need to be top comment.