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[–] 2 points 2 months ago

if phone makers like xiaomi can make cars now, then why not car companies making uav's? :p

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Wooo boy does this need to be top comment.

    Good catch.

    Grok translation everyone, as reliable as Elon Musk's stock valuations.

    EDIT:

    https://www.jwing.net/news/112102

    Pretty sure this is the actual source.

    Current article title:

    サーブ、次世代無人戦闘機コンセプト「A3-001」を公開

    So uh, サーブ is a transliteration of Saab. (Sa-- Bu), basically.

    But, the original headline, in the image, has... kanji...

    [kou - shiki], I think? Which would... contextually be... 'official announcement', basically?

    Ah, the header in the image is the description of jwing, the news outlet, not the article title.

    Well, I'd thought it might be possible that the actual company name in the headline could have been erroneous, initially, and then updated, but now I realize we can't see it, so, not sure.

    Oh well, learned some kanji, wheeee!

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    It's a "fighter"? Are we imagining drones dogfighting? What's it's main target?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months 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"

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Got to replace the head gaskets every 10 flights.

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    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!)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    the advantage of drones is their low price, not the fact fhat they are unmanned

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Now I'll know if the plane overhead is piloted by a lesbian! Nice!

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