Starship Just Became a Money Making Machine
… It’s almost impossible to believe what a huge upgrade Starship is to Falcon 9, and V3 Starlink is to V2.
“Each one of these V3 Starlink satellites being deployed right now increases the bandwidth capacity of the ENTIRE Starlink constellation by roughly 0.11%,” Sawyer Merritt explained this morning. And one of the replies noted that “This one launch is over 2.8% of all bandwidth.”
Weighing about 23 kilograms (50 pounds), the turret can reportedly engage fast-moving targets as small as 7 inches (18 centimeters) that are as far out as 100 meters (328 feet).
That there is no way Ukraine can win this war. But perhaps I was wrong. And the Ukrainians have become the world’s greatest experts in drone technology. And the US has benefitted from that expertise.
This has really exposed the Russian vulnerability to drones. And it has taught a valuable lesson to the US. Look at what the US just did to Iran with surface drones!
“loyal wing-man” approach is absolutely the right course. And at some point, stealing technology <cough>China<cough> becomes less effective, because without an overarching understanding of what you are doing, the blueprints’ value is reduced.
Building upon decades of responsible, semi-autonomous flight development, CCA represent the next critical evolution of airpower. CCA are designed to seamlessly integrate with crewed fighters to extend reach, awareness and survivability in contested environments. This human-machine teaming will serve as a powerful deterrent, signaling to adversaries the futility of challenging U.S. airpower.
this is pretty dang cool!
The forthcoming Wraith Shield software update uses the existing antenna to scan for drone control signals, identify enemy ones, and jam them, L3Harris executives told reporters.
IS the problem with AI!
AI is NOT a truth-teller. It is no more reliable than a written op-ed piece. It is merely a new way to write opinions. So please, don’t be snookered into thinking that somehow what comes out of this computer is truth. It isn’t. And it always reflects the personal biases and desires and intentions of the programmer/writer.
It’s actually nothing new in terms of truth–value. It’s just an editorial. It’s dangerous in the sense that it has the appearance or patina of truth, but is in fact merely another way to editorialize.
It’s just a very complex record player. It plays the tune that it was programmed to play. And it was programmed by a human being with biases and preferences. Be careful not to lose sight of that!
identifies! It turns out that there are some things that, as of yet, AI just does not do very well. And thus they can be unmasked.
For now, anyway.
awesome! The war-fighting technology is getting dang advanced. But they need to arm this with a “discombobulator.”
An Air Force F-22 Raptor pilot had an in-flight “talk” with his drone wingman during a just-revealed test mission at Edwards Air Force base, bringing us one step closer to our fighter pilots flying into action with a cohort of AI-powered jets.
don’t hear much is that AI is neither the harbinger of a dystopia, nor a marker of a utopia.
What it is is a truly liberating technology. Even right now, when you go to the doctor, whether it be a physician or psychologist or whatever, that practitioner can listen intently to you and not pay attention to notes. Why? Because of AI. Their AI scribe records the session, and takes good notes. The practitioner is thus freed to actually treat and interact with PEOPLE, not to be a mere technician frantically defending against legal liability.
I remember how my sister would call me all despondent and even crying because she would stay up until after midnight every night doing chart notes, and yet still kept falling behind. She would try to catch up on the weekends.
She could not just treat and help these people with hemophilia who had gone to her, she had to remember what had gone on and then go create notes for each patient after the clinic closed. And on weekends. Honestly, it was hell.
But now there are AI scribes. What an AI scribe does is allow the practitioner to focus on treatment, not on documentation. And people are far better off for it. Practitioners can focus on the patient (which likely is why they went into medicine in the first place–radiologists excepted, of course), not on the upcoming note. And, SURPRISE!, that makes treatment better. For everyone.
That is just one example. There are many others.
pretty dang funny!
Fighting only looks on the surface to be all about technology. As has been said, it is actually mainly about people.