How Drones Could Revolutionize Warfare | Animated History

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Armchair Team Credits:

[patrickazzarella]

From little fpv drones zipping into buildings and through the trees to massive 8 rotor drones capable of destroying multiple tanks in middle of the night using HEAT warheads on them or acting as a mothership to smaller drones. To recon and grenade dropping, maritime harassment and raids with underwater or surface naval drones, they have become vital at every level of warfare.

[carolousrexwittelsbach]

1700s: Quality is most important
1800s: Mobility is the most important
1900s: Quantity is the most important
2000s: Idk, just trow some robots and see what happens

[novat]

My biggest fear, or horror if you will. Is that, if you destroy a tank it won't come back to attack you. A drone? The enemy will just send an identical drone day after day, because chances are good that the ammo you spent to destroy the drone was more expensive than the ammo you threw at it.

[SolarBaller]

3:48 my brother fought in Artsakh and according to him the worst part of the entire war were the drones. He says they could hear the drones flying above them all the time and usually all they could do was to seek for cover cuz of the absence of weapons that could take the drones down

[joedatius]

I like how the part explaining a large plane being a mothership for drones is basically the entire concept for the Arsenal Bird in AC7

[Violentpitsa]

People said the same things about submarine warfare, at the beginning of WW2 Germany had free reign of the Atlantic. By the end of the war German Submarines could not leave port with out getting attacked. Technology will counter drones, until they are no longer viable, and the next thing will come along.

[Alte.Kameraden]

The small drones usage reminds me of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 from 2007.

[Ma-kf]

"...they lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines. "

[schmalettesm]

Considering a drone just destroyed a Leopard, the thumbnail is kinda clickbait.

[Yakko]

IIRC, the Iraqis who surrendered to the drone during Desert Storm did so because they quickly figured out that drone was the spotter for the two USN battleships lobbing 16" shells at them.

[pabcu]

Obviously, Luxembourg is more powerful as they are hiding their tripods

[k-brick]

I wish you mentioned the Iranian Shahed Drones.

[maxbennett]

What if you took a tank and gave it a little recon drone attached by a wire (So it can't just lose connection and sends data faster.) and somehow connect the drone's camera to the cannon so it can fly over a building and calculate the shot necessary to shoot at a target through the building or other obstacle without the tank actually needing line of sight.

[MAXIMIR-wfez]

Hey, why weren't the shahids mentioned? Or Russian lancets, which are a little homing in on the target? If I'm not mistaken, it was from the lancets that the Leopard was shot down. Examples of drones from other countries ?

[saucyinnit]

We've seen Lancet Kamikaze drones take out the highly prized Leopard 2A6's, it's safe to say they are the future. And those are only the Lancets.

[OrdinaryLatvian]

I loved the Advance Wars reference at 15:17!

[toututu]

The way commercial none military fpv drone already makes a lot of genuine long time military tactic/equipments, and vehicles obsolete show how powerful the thing could even be if there is a true military version of it. For, example; longer signal/flight, harder to detect, faster, packs more deadlier explosive, mounted mini machine gun/rocket launches, all that only cost 2x as much as the commercial one

[ThatSpecificIndividual]

The way Drones are being used shows that ballistic anti air platforms like the German Gepard aren't obsolete as people said they were.

Slow flying targets that are way cheaper than most missile defences. Having anti aircraft guns would be better taking out swarms too.

[JK-cjmy]

Weaponised robots and AI are a perfect combo

[tusk]

9:14, это была атака не морского дрона, а намеренная терраристическая атака, где фуру загрузили пластидом и через фирму заказали доставку, из-за этого погиб водитель, и семья, это говорит о качестве вашего контента, я уже давно замечал не особую объективность в ваших роликах, но это уже показатель вашей отрешённости в изучения материала.