jessica in the kitchen

over-the-fold headline: "Supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford To Act As Floating Nuclear Power Plant For Facilities On Land"

> The Pentagon is exploring ways to keep the power on at critical bases after attacks or natural disasters,

1. they are afraid of attacks on usa mainland
2. the Ford is turbofucked and they're looking for ways to hide it
3. they are looking to keep the fleet closer to home as the empire takes aim at central and south america

May 26 at 5:55pmWeb
Show threadjessica in the kitchenMay 26
"U.S. Military’s Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drone Clone Is Getting Hivemind Swarming Capability"
> Shield AI is providing the software to unlock the combat-proven LUCAS's cooperative swarming potential, which could drastically increase its lethality.
https://www.twz.com/air/u-s-militarys-lucas-kamikaze-drone-is-getting-hivemind-swarming-capability
U.S. Military’s Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drone Clone Is Getting Hivemind Swarming Capability

Shield AI is providing the software to unlock the combat-proven LUCAS's cooperative swarming potential, which could drastically increase its lethality. Shield AI says AI-guided kamikaze drones mean that a single drone could knock out a target that previously needed 10–20 drones to do the job.

The War Zone
Show threadjessica in the kitchenMay 26

"U.S. military demands a human operator is ‘in or on the loop’ [...] While less controversial morally, this can also be a tactical hindrance, slowing the swarm’s potential and adding complexity and vulnerabilities to its operations. The debate around this choice will only get more heated as adversaries bypass this elected restriction in order to get an upper hand in future combat scenarios."

oh well, that's reassuring 🙄

Show threadjessica in the kitchenMay 26
we have to give our drones full autonomy, or THE TERRORISTS WIN
Show threadjessica in the kitchenMay 26
you call it "low-cost" and yet it's $35,000 and has half the range of the iranian version, curious....
Show threadjessica in the kitchenMay 26
"We’re using a lot of the same technical approaches that Tesla or Waymo are using; we use sensors on board these drones and weapon systems to perceive our environment. We got a GPU [graphics processing unit, a specialized electronic circuit designed for digital image processing] that thinks about what to do and is programmed to think about the different missions that it’s executing in said environment, and then we take action, maneuvering the drone or the weapon system in the environment." 💀
Show threadFeminist Marxist WhoreMay 26
@SapphicGiraffic the missile knows where it is, because it knows where it isn't.
Show threadCharlie StrossMay 26

@SapphicGiraffic @Lazarou Carriers have been used as floating logistics hubs and power stations for many decades, but you can't plausibly use a CVN as a mobile power plant in a war zone where it might be attacked (they need to be under way to launch strike aircraft with a full payload—steaming into the wind shaves up to 40 knots off the airspeed planes need to become airborn).

This is probably more about natural disasters and decaying US infrastructure at home than about waging wars overseas.

Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈May 26
@cstross @SapphicGiraffic didn't they used to have a special ship for 'restarting American civilisation' or was that actually Science Fiction?
Show threadCharlie StrossMay 26
@Lazarou @SapphicGiraffic Not sure. In any case, a CVN's reactors probably put out around 400MW thermal at full power, so no more than 100MW electrical. That's not going to go far if you're trying to do a grid restart. Might suffice to get another power plant online, though.
Show threadJackMexMay 26

@SapphicGiraffic

Central and South America 😫😭