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[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 10 hours ago
[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 26 points 13 hours ago (8 children)

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

[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours 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"

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 1 points 4 hours ago

nah, you're right, it's clearly delivering medical supplies.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 36 points 12 hours ago

Defense budgets.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

Which one get's to carry the spool of fibre optic?

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 12 points 13 hours ago

probably brown people in west asia

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

Maybe Amazon next?

[–] xylol@leminal.space 3 points 10 hours ago

Alive things

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Other drones

[–] jrwperformance@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Got to replace the head gaskets every 10 flights.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

That was the old Roos
The modern ones spin bearings from no oil due to oil pickups blocked with RTV

Contrails lookin’ like someone’s hitting all the vapes

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago

And if you push it too hard it will shoot a piston out the side

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 4 points 8 hours ago

Lesbian pilots of the world unite - who's with me!? 🤪

[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 6 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

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!)

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 points 7 hours ago

The term for it is 'conglomerate'

[–] aeiou@piefed.social 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Mitsubishi and it's offshoots has made everything at one point or another. Paper, drugs, TVs, cars, tanks, planes, submarines...

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

... one of the best fighter planes of World War II...

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

Subaru used to be a part of Fuji Heavy Industries, who actually started out making aircraft. They've since been renamed to simply "Subaru Corporation", apparently.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Major Japanese companies have insane levels of diversification

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

It's not so much diversification, but the fact that many of them were zaibatsu, the only ones able to do anything other than farming. They just had a huuuuge head start.

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

Hitachi is the best example

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] miked@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago

This made me giggle.