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

"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

"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 🙄

we have to give our drones full autonomy, or THE TERRORISTS WIN
you call it "low-cost" and yet it's $35,000 and has half the range of the iranian version, curious....
"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." 💀
@SapphicGiraffic the missile knows where it is, because it knows where it isn't.