What's the future of warfare Veeky Forums? Autonomous armed drones? Bioweapons? Nanobots?

What's the future of warfare Veeky Forums? Autonomous armed drones? Bioweapons? Nanobots?

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laser weapons, kinetic weapons, lighter armored divisions, robotized light artillery and deep-operations equipment.

>kinetic weapons
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
>"A kinetic bombardment or a kinetic orbital strike is the hypothetical act of attacking a planetary surface with an inert projectile, where the destructive force comes from the kinetic energy of the projectile impacting at very high velocities."
>mfw the future of warfare is just dropping big rocks from high up

The strongest military will be 100% unmanned air, land, and sea weapons controlled in real time by an AI (trained like AlphaGo Zero, i.e., by having it simulate battles against itself for years. It will be a better general than any human).

The AI will always make optimal decisions, without being affected by ego, wrath, or fear, and it will control endless waves of easily replaceable, relentless automatons.

Strategic measures will be the only way to overcome it:
>cyberattacks may be effective, but probably not terribly so
>losing the war quickly, then practicing sustained guerilla / terrorism against human occupying forces.
>using, or threatening to use superweapons (e.g. nukes or better) against the country that controls the AI army

>the future is skynet

Kinetic bombardment is stupid when you consider the cost of putting something heavy in orbit. It's cheaper to build 10 surface to surface missiles.

those don't destroy bunkers

if you want to destroy the bunker that badly why not use nuclear missiles

too much fallout and friendly-fire

at least the enemy bunker would be dead. If you use rods from god you're probably going to miss.

they're already being used in war and they don't miss
>enemy would be dead
probably, but if the nuke doesn't pierce beneath the earth/bedrock/whatever it wouldn't. They're meant to be used as morale-crushers more than actual weapons of war.

the advantage would be in the reduced transit time, the inability to disable such a system mid-transit, the reduced chance of lingering side-effects, etc.

There are certainly possible scenarios when the cost would be justified. Perhaps there's no example in the public consciousness, but warfare is all about potentials

Infantry have been trending towards more expensive, less numerous, and more capable over time. The near future of warfare is infantry equipped with mechanical assistance, which will allow for heavier armour and bigger man portable weapons. Eventually evolving into real life powersuits.

Also things will naturally tend to be less and less manned, as long as its shortcomings are minimized enough to be worth it, because losing the equipment is better than than losing the equipment and the pilot.

nanobots and autonomous stuff is sci-fi shit for now.

Wars will be fought via social media.

npr.org/2017/09/28/554024047/as-scrutiny-of-social-networks-grows-influence-attacks-continue-in-real-time

This shit is one of the things that happening on Veeky Forums the past year or so.

I fucking hope not, that would be utterly boring and was.

It is highly effective and costs almost nothing in comparison.

It's not cyberpunk enough for my liking.

>he believes in the meme war meme
Convince me this isn't a self-aggrandizing power fantasy concocted by useless internet complainers to pretend that their useless internet complaining is an integral part of world politics. Posting frogs didn't make Trump president, the fucking economy did.

Trump's love of memes. Some could say he was born of the memes, and taht he has not seen serious discussion in politics until he was a man

Against extraterrestrials...

The mother-ship obliterator.

Pic related.

>Lure mothership over an area of land on the planet.
>Burry 100 of these over a wide range, one will suffice though.
>Blip blorp attacks.
>He suddenly blinks and his entire ship is covered with exterminatus.
>Falls to the earth as humanity eats up his tasty space memes.
>"Not the space memes." He will say. As we drink deep his anguished tears of failure to invade.
>INB4 Nuclear blow gun

SHALL
NOT
BE
INFRINGED

>bunker meme

>he doesn't want new magical toys that count as space-weapons
if something is carved into a dwarven citadel you should probably just flood it with water

>he doesn't want new magical toys that count as space-weapons

Concussive explosion magic isn't neat enough?

doesnt look like a laser cannon enough. Thats the weeb missle.

Peace.

Bioweapons, no doubt

>memes

Did you read the article?

They probably can't read.

1 race kills all the others and claims dominion over the entire earth. Then they reach for the stars.

>This week brought a slate of fresh examples of ways in which users — some of them demonstrably Russian, others not — continue to try to use Facebook, Twitter and other platforms.
>demonstrably Russian
hahahaha holy shit, only a complete retard would buy into this meme. anyone with a brain would start laughing uncontrollably at this shit

>he hasn't seen the military powerpoint going over memetic warfare

Every war over ideology, over beliefs, over religion has ultimately been a war over memes.

Every time you engage in an argument you're engaging in memetic combat.

How many people are motivated by a certain ideology to carry out violence? I think you're just completely unaware about social dynamics. You're basically saying propaganda has never played a significant role in warfare or politics.

>religion is a meme
*tips fedora*

Every religion but yours is a meme. Does that make you feel better?

>prelude to "I have no mouth and I must scream"

they'll likely hold the same position as nukes do now, just a big weapon that never gets used. you wouldn't have heaps, just rich factions would have some at the ready.

Two armies of robots fight until one is done. Then the winning army kills all the humans of the other nation.

> Autonomous armed drones? Bioweapons? Nanobots?

Why not all of them?

>The future is here
>omicsonline.org/open-access/genetic-fuzzy-based-artificial-intelligence-for-unmanned-combat-aerialvehicle-control-in-simulated-air-combat-missions-2167-0374-1000144.pdf

There was an interview on NPR with the rally organizer. He was interviewed by Russian news about it and had no clue what was happening until they contacted him. It really warped his world view.

Knowing the military elite knowledge the robot army can be running Ubuntu.

Any NSA squirrel can disarm them, don't trust their OS choices.

a nanobot flies in through an air vent and injects you with some drug that can kill you in minute quantities

Why not just use rockets and instead of putting shit in orbit just ram The target

Quantum virus programmed to kill an entire race.

*wears a suit*
nothin personel

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If you think you can get a useful response from delusional arm chair generals in basements I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.