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@garretthaney9134

9 ай бұрын

Literally. He's with Founders Fund, a venture capital firm that invested in Anduril.

@mrmikes4553

3 ай бұрын

I hope you are right. They are doing their jobs in trying to protect America. Most people bitch and moan and don't do nothing except to be a keyboard warrior.

Starting from 20:00 it suddenly starts sounding like a PR piece for Anduril. They can’t be the only ones thinking outside the box.

@garretthaney9134

9 ай бұрын

But they're probably the only ones the venture capital fund he's involved with invested in.

Funny, I've been visiting a bunch of UK companies and seeing this same issue. Large defence contractors are the focus of military spending, but they need agile smaller developers who can rapidly innovate. But that just scares the crap out of them because they really don't trust smaller companies. Only "primes".

@klowen7778

10 ай бұрын

'Fer sure, and sounds reminiscent of the same way the American automotive industry lost out to imports, likewise due to its 'addiction' to the 'yuge' profit margins of older, less-competitive, and over-priced tech.

@ColdHawk

10 ай бұрын

I think the Elon Musk model of rapid iteration and testing demonstrated by Space X, might help a lot of these large companies.

@colinkeizer7353

9 ай бұрын

​@@ColdHawk Will their unions let them work Elon's way? Will their executives hack out most of the levels of middle management shielding the board room from the grimy, greasy consequences of champagne and hors d'oeuvres decisions?

@typxxilps

8 ай бұрын

@@ColdHawkno, that is too easy cause the work force of Space X is far younger than the competition but it will age too. Remember when the Smart Company was founded back in 1995 and they went into the city coupe production in France ? That was the youngest workforce of any automaker back then - in 2017 just 20 years older and as old as average before and by 2022 the plant was more or less dead cause Smart had left the plant and now comes from china only more or less. Drone developement is a different thing and the base technology is dominated by china cause there are not many other flight controller manufacturer out there that can do it on their own. Imagine the military wants to get 1 fc without chinese influence how much money you have to spend to get that first one - while I bought my last before the chinese sanctions kicked in for 38€ incl. shipping. It will take ages till the first one will exceed the chinese one I bet. And rapid innovation is one thing but reliability and quality another thing where he at least missed to hit the goals for teslas cars that have a lot of issues if you pick up one from the factory or delivery facility. It is a gamble what you will get except you have ordered one that is produced in china cause these are significant better than those made in USA.

@Willy_Tepes

8 ай бұрын

Well, the smaller companies should just sell their drones directly to the civilian market and bypass the entire military-industrial complex. The clue is to never even market it as a military drone (maybe a pineapple delivery drone). You are gonna see one before Christmas ;)

6:16 Bayroktar did NOT destroy Moskva. it was in the area and distracted their defenses enough, but Moskva was hit by 2 Neptune missiles.

@sirkl4272

Жыл бұрын

He regularly gets important and glaring details wrong, or provides facts with no context, when discussing anything relating to military issues. And I'm not talking about attribution, or blame, I mean just black and white stuff. For example, he compared the total number of ships in the USN to the PLAN to show how dominant the Chinese Navy is. But somehow he forgot to mention tonnage, or the fact that PLAN is primarily a green water navy, versus the USN being the bluest of the blue water navies.

@jakez1930

Жыл бұрын

His biased takes often get in the way of facts, hes a NATO/US intelligence moutpiece, he literally regurgitates the lies they tell and make videos about it. Modern day propaganda grifter, not shocking

@themore-you-know

Жыл бұрын

@@jakez1930, you're a funny man, considering the fact that if all of the details were laid out, John would sound even MORE pro-nato/us. Namely, and very importantly: what sirkl said regarding the shore-locked nature of the Chinese fleet. I suggest you go watch some of Peter Zeihan's stuff. Clearly laid out takeaways on the subject.

@Timb0NZ

Жыл бұрын

@@sirkl4272 The Bayraktar TB2s are also irrelevant now. They are all shot down or made inoperable by Russian electronic warfare. Same as Switchblade drone.

@leonard4020

Жыл бұрын

​@Timb0NZ Himars 😂. Russia miltary is a total joke. I am surprised how poorly trained they are. Poor tactics. Russia will never win.

9:15 "The Trench" was "not an early innovation of the 20th Century". The British learned the Trench fortification from the NZ warlike Maori tribes, who used them very effectively to resist British invasion of NZ. To the point, that the British, unlike many other colonies where they just stomped the natives, had to sign a treaty with the Maoris as it was cheaper than fighting them.

@archaney

10 ай бұрын

I shook my head when he said trenches were a 20th century innovation. In addition to what you have covered trenches were also being used in the later part of the US Civil War. Such as in the siege of Petersburg, VA.

@LloydWeeber

10 ай бұрын

The British quickly adapted to using trenches during the Maori Wars which started in 1845

@gustavthemagician

8 ай бұрын

The Romans amd Greeks used trenches 2000 years ago. The Celts long before that and they learned it from the Chinese.

@LloydWeeber

8 ай бұрын

@@gustavthemagician The Maoris didn't learn trenching from the Chinese, Celts or the British. They invented it very quickly by themselves when they found that the wooden pallisades of their fortified pas did not stop bullets and shells. Their dogged defence and Guerilla war tactics stopped or at least bogged down British military expeditionary activities over and over again. British hubris in the Maori Wars and Russian hubris in the invasion of Ukraine are comparable.

@Willy_Tepes

8 ай бұрын

NATO hubris is worse. Surrounding Russia with military bases and then claiming that Russia is acting aggressive.@@LloydWeeber

Not sure the Moskva was attacked by drones. They may’ve been used as decoys &/or to divert defensive fire. Looks more like the shop was attacked by Neptune land-based anti-ship ballistic missiles. This is evidenced by the damage to the ship’s hull in at least two places that indicate missile-strikes.

Trench's were a lot more complex than we remember today in The Great War.

This didn't age well

This video shifted from russia's drone problem to america's drone problem🤔

@MMABones

Жыл бұрын

I have never been so confused.

@williamyoung9401

11 ай бұрын

The American defense industry is well aware of its shortcomings. They don't care. They think the U.S. military still totally dominates the globe, so there's no reason for innovation. Just keep the monopoly and the stock price high.

@Tespri

11 ай бұрын

yeah seems like he is more like for pro zhina and ruzzia by trying to gaslight the topic into something else. Basically lure in people with clickbait and then talk about something else.

@Silver_Prussian

10 ай бұрын

Russia doesnt have such a problem as they produce and employ several times the amount of drones ukraine does, they also down about 10k a month with electronic warfare Sources: Hundreds of reports by ukrainian soldier on the ground and by the RUSI

@Tespri

10 ай бұрын

@@Silver_Prussian man you have to seriously delusional if you think that Ruzzia can out produce and out last 33 + x countries.

I honestly was engaged with this video the moment it started. I was, of course, interested already, but you made this video so informative, made it seamlessly run in an excellent timeline, with reminders that, "Hey, I'll come back to that; keep it in mind," and kept coming with easy-to-digest information, even to a woman like me who has never flown a drone, but understand a lot about how they are used, the why, etc., but you've filled in a lot of blanks for me. Also, it makes me extremely anxious to see our country faltering, when this is something we should act on now, not to reign terror on someone else, but for defensive purposes, etc. I'm subscribing to your channel, and I'll check out your stable of vids to get caught up to all you've covered. Thank you again for the herculean effort to put something out that is informative and/or interesting to those like myself, as well as to war veterans/current military or just those with drone experience. I have been a video player for years, as have my sons. I've always had a suspicion that was going to pay off in some way, should they ever been drafted or serve in the military, as my family has a very long history of doing. I look forward to seeing your channel's future offerings.

@Kaatu-barada-nikto

10 ай бұрын

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@loftsatsympaticodotc

9 ай бұрын

Kim... That is well stated. Keep informed, write your congressman and senators. Stay active and persevere!

@HarryHoudini-it9or

6 ай бұрын

As open to the idea of sending your sons off to war as you are, I sincerely hope they never have to go...(I shake my head at some of you US citizens). Wake up!

Your videos are really high quality and well produced! Having a hard time understanding why you don’t have millions of subscribers 🙌 Keep up the good work!

@westeam4247

8 ай бұрын

because its high quality biases media

@MarkDalbey-cv9sb

8 ай бұрын

if you say that his videos are quality, I will take your word for that. What I will say is that he is not all that accurate , and for this I won't take your word on. He said that trenches were a military innovation in the early 20th century. There were definitely trenches then, but there were a few around St Petersburg in the Civil War. That is when trenches were an innovation. A few decades before the 20th century. This is a fairly major thing. It is not a gotcha thing.

So glad someone is talking about this, as its just been taken for granted. Not as the game changing thing they've become, walking shells on to targets, dropping hand grenades on troops, flying into tanks. They are literally on land, sea and air. They've hit them all, and for such a cheep price, to a missile used to do the same.

@steveperreira5850

11 ай бұрын

Well Said

@onegrail9398

10 ай бұрын

its worth noting that it was the russian drone that initiated contact and was also the one that was taken out. for some reason this video claims the Ukrainian one initiated contact...

@j.f.fisher5318

10 ай бұрын

To me, this looks like a reversal of the trends that created the military revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries that led to the rise of modern nation states.

@jasonbirchoff2605

9 ай бұрын

I think cheap drones will replace artillery shells. Think of them as smart artillery rounds.

@nestorportuguez8964

9 ай бұрын

how about a missile of a swarming drone publish by US some years ago. was that not true? so that TDJ drone can not done like the swarming drone did.

So to make a partial list of commercial over-the-shelf drone usage: reconnaissance, forward observer (fo), gps targeting for himars , sniper using a drone as the eyes and ears for a howitzer refining line of fire, drones used for voluntary surrender, grenade launcher etc.

@gareonconley1956

3 ай бұрын

Yes, but only because we don't want to support them with actual weapons. About a 100 of those used to get delivered every week

I like your channel and videos man. The content, the quality! keep it up!

DJI is the global leader in civilian and hobby drones by far. The US sanctions DJI not because of the possible military applicatins but because it is a successful Chinese company. In some situations these sanctions have crippled the company and forced them to shut down. But in the case of Huawei and DJI it hasn't worked. DJI is as strong as ever. There's a US law that prevents US Govt organizations from buying DJI drones, without getting approval from the sanctions office. But the FBI and the US border patrol have applied for and gotten permission to buy DJI drones by the 100's. THey do so not because they want to support a Chinese company but because DJI has no competition, their products are just better. The title of this peice should not be Russia has a drone problem but America has a drone problem. But it's not really a drone problem it's a manufacturing problem. China just makes better stuff for much cheaper. Tesla's factory in China makes the same cars as Tesla's US factories, except for 1/3 the price, the exac same car for 1/3 the cost. That's why Tesla's new factories for the US market will be in Mexico. This problem is greatest in US military weapons systems. Major US defense contractors Boeing and Northrup partnered to build the large rocket SLS for NASA. The program started in 2010 and the 1st launch was supposed to be 2016. That was delayed to 2022 and the cost doubled. (it was a cost plus contract). The SLS was eventually going to put US persons back on the moon. NASA has given up on SLS and has asked Boeing and Northrup to find other customers to spread the cost and hopefully bring down the cost of each launch. This is a sad joke. 30 years ago congress passed a law to "protect" the US space industry by forcing all US govt satellite be launched on US made launch vehicles. The lack of competition resulted in a space industry that was grossly inefficient, super expensive but had powerful lobbying arms in congress to remove competition. Industrial policy in China is used to bring competition to its state owned enterprises and make them lean and mean, industrial policy in the US created the military industrial complex that creates oligopolies that have no competitors and are obese and wasteful. The regular revolving door between the pentagon and large defense contractors, and more important the huge lobbying of congress by these companies has created a military industrial complex that only knows how to spend more and more money. Chainging this system will require a huge external force, perhaps if we fought war with China and lost.

@wfdroneservices3690

Жыл бұрын

All very true.

@WhatsUpLand

Жыл бұрын

If we're sanctioning them solely for being successful, that would be completely fair because the CCP completely disallows United States companies for the most part. When companies are allowed to operate in China, it's because the Borg collective intends to assimilate them.

@GameplayTubeYT

Жыл бұрын

Totally BS we can now see how DJI drone can use in military! In fact Ukraine step up they know they can't rely on Chinese Drone that's why they now manufacture their own quadcaptor and it's far more better than the Chinese they can now drop grenade carry a RPG round to make it homemade Kamikaze drone! Literally Russia war on Ukraine is making Kyiv a Quadcaptor Drone Manufacturing power house in the Europe.

@defintity_9951

Жыл бұрын

@@WhatsUpLand Agree

@charlesnl7

Жыл бұрын

One word, Anduril.

There needs to be an update video, as even in the past 6 months a lot has changed in Ukraine. They're going all in on 3D printed FPV drones, the Anti-Personel and especially Anti-Armor capability is incredible. Mothership drones, that are like flying aircraft carriers for quadcopter drones are a thing, often using agricultural drones. And i know of at least 1 engineer/machinist who is moving his operation to Ukraine to build gigantic octocopter-like drones that can drop 155mm artillery shells. It's quite possible we're seeing another Dreadnaught Effect here

@lawrencefrost9063

4 ай бұрын

In 1906 the First Sea Lord John “Jackie” Fisher launched the HMS Dreadnought, what nowadays would be called a school case of disruptive innovation. Not a new invention, but putting together the most advanced technologies at the time in engines, armour and weapons, the Dreadnought made obsolete all contemporary warships. Including those of the most powerful navy at that time, the British Navy. As a result, all navies were at level and the naval arms race with Germany started.

6000 commercial drones? It's a VAST underestimation. It may be around accurate to describe a monthly increase for each of the sides (including FPVs). Literally both sides developed potential of fielding thousands drones monthly.

Very well said... Your point is sharp and on target. This challenge is only going to get larger as time goes on, thank you for shedding light on these missed opportunities. One can only hope that our innovators will pick this up and run with it.

@jaibusby673

9 ай бұрын

less miles per flight they did not improve the copied with mistarks

Hello from Ukraine guys. I've heard those "Shaheed" drones at night as the were flying somewhere near me with a sound of a bike from San-Andreas. Scary shit.. But since patriot arrived, haven't heard them 😂 Thank you US 🇺🇸

@CurlsAPTIE

Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Turkey, good luck to you all living in Ukraine. May we all reach peace soon.

@TheIcpfan23

Жыл бұрын

Greetings from the US I agree we all need peace real soon good luck to you Ukraine let's whoop some ass

@Loller521

11 ай бұрын

@@TheIcpfan23 ❤️

@Loller521

11 ай бұрын

@@CurlsAPTIE ❤️

@wiktorpoliszczuk1372

11 ай бұрын

😀😀Only HIMARS will fix russian propaganda for good and soon

Great stuff John..loving the defense videos!

Loitering munitions, such as the switchblade, or even a 400 dollar FPV drone are revolutionizing the battlefield. Measly 500 dollar drones with munitions strapped to the bottom are able to take out expensive tanks and armored personnel carriers, with the only limitation being the drone pilot’s skill. The increasing threat of cheap to make and operate drones is the next nuclear level threat due to the easily accessible and destructive capabilities.

Having worked for years in the national security space I can tell you this is one of the best overviews of UAVs for military applications. DOD and others should watch this. That said, I would have preferred more attention given to what some refer to as Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) to detect, track and disrupt GPS guidance and operator radio control of the drone. It takes time to field C-UAS devices across the battle space, but I have little doubt a more robust defense is probably in the offing by next spring on both sides. One other matter. It's no secret that Ukraine suffers from a significant shortage of munitions such as the 155mm shells, and the US and its European allies cannot come close to meeting the demand (maybe 1/3 of what Ukraine needs). Precision guided munitions would offer a dramatic improvement in kill rates, but these are in even shorter supply and very expensive. Drones armed with explosive charges and small GPS guided bomblets could fill some of the gap.

This war is basically the testing ground for anonymous drone assassinations. Daniel Suarez wrote a good book about this around 10 years ago called Kill Decision. It was about anyone being able to send out armed drones, it was near fiction, but now they can do it. The Slaughterbots vid on KZread also predicted this. Daniel Suarez, a former IT guy now sci-fi author, had to think about a solution for the dystopian, but logical, future. He proposed that all drones have to be on a central register and emit their license number, so it’s linked to a person, and then we have ‘police drones’ that take down any other drones that are not registered. That’s kind of like Denmark requiring people to register if they live here so that they know who’s who, so I better do it before they take me down.

@nothingtoseehere1221

Жыл бұрын

aged like milk id say

@VHTF_

Жыл бұрын

@@nothingtoseehere1221 ?

@Low_commotion

Жыл бұрын

No offense but whenever I hear people talk about solutions for near-future tech like AI or drones or 3D printed guns, the only answer _always_ seems to be a centralized database and somehow getting everyone (including our foes!) to play ball into the foreseeable future. Where are the people proposing _technological_ solutions that don't require political buy-in from abroad? EM warfare? Counter-drone drone interceptors that can launch from a rutsack (like a miniaturized version of Anduril's anti-drone)? What about bottle-rocket sized anti-drone self-propelled projectiles? Ironically I think a _Chinese developer_ would sooner propose such solutions than a westerner today. This is, of course, ignoring the surveillance regime that would be necessary to monitor all drone flights in real-time, throughout western countries since these are so much smaller than even a Cesna. Are we trying to think about solutions that _don't_ require a camera on every corner? What's the point of victory over China if our societies become as centrally-managed as theirs? We're just going to hope that the same government that blackmailed MLK and produced COINTELPRO & PRISM remain the good guys w/ China-level surveillance? Is the only path into the future one that makes the current _UK_ seem like Montana in terms of freedom?

@Tryste

Жыл бұрын

War on terror already used automated killing drone that needed no human operator: basically a person using a phone, calling suspected terrorists, having them in his contacts or emailing them would increase his threat score, at a point the automated system would dispatch a Predator when it decide to eliminate the threat, unfortunatly it could strike at any time, when the target is in a market place or a wedding hitting bystanders. If it's the case, These innocent bystanders are then used by terrorist propaganda to recruits new terrorists for revenge, which benefit their communication and recruitment operations. And the cycle continue, which is profitable for the Militaro-Industrial Complex in the long run (keeping a low/mild intensity threat, for a endless war and unlimited fundings) Automated killing is already tested for years in extra judicial killings. Obama holding the record of strikes.

@mr_green_ucp

11 ай бұрын

you can print diy drone with some cheap electronics, not super hard job

The EDM soundtrack makes this look like a surreal advertisement for American made drones.

welp, this didnt age well

Great video. My only complaint is the music at 17:xx-20:00 onwards is kinda annoying. Did a fire alarm go off during its production? :)

The US isn't behind in UAS technologies, the difference is that the DOD buys systems that fits it's method of fighting, and that is combined warfare.

@VictimGuy

11 ай бұрын

Curious to how the RQ170 compares to other drones once its released

@BosonCollider

11 ай бұрын

Drones are an incredibly important new component of it though

@peterclarke3020

10 ай бұрын

There is a glaring need for lots of cheap drones, and drones of all types. As weapons and observers for military use. Drones need to outnumber soldiers.

@jerseyshoredroneservices225

7 ай бұрын

I think you have a point when it comes to drones specifically designed for the military. However when it comes to drones like the mavic and other Enterprise drones used in business, the US is far behind. Many of us have been wishing for a US alternative to our Phantoms Mavics Matrices, etc. unfortunately there is none. The best American drones cost at least five times more and don't work as well. The Freefly Alta X might be an exception. That one is specifically designed for the film industry.

@TheFrewah

4 ай бұрын

@@VictimGuyThat’s a $6 million drone!

The fact that Anduril took their name from Aragorn’s sword, as a Tolkien nerd myself, caught my eye, very fitting actually 😂 Drone are definitely central to the future of military combat, I have a hard time seeing any realistic scenario where they are not

@cy_per

Жыл бұрын

Mae govannen! 😊

@LumenMichaelOne

10 ай бұрын

Was Anduil Isuldur's sword that was shattered by Sauron that severed The Ring?

@boaoftheboaians

10 ай бұрын

@@LumenMichaelOne Yep! That exact sword!

@cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059

10 ай бұрын

So are ways of knocking them down.

@cthoadmin7458

10 ай бұрын

Anduril, flame of the West. The sword that was broken reforged.

Some of the drone dropped grenade footage is horrifying. I've seen things I'll never forget.

For every new weapon there are many new inventions which come out to counter it , the issue is the amount of time in between before those features are available.

Excellent presentation. I had no idea of the capabilities of the Shahed drone, nor of the US not seeding competitive technology in this field.

@John Coogan Trenches are invented in 17th century. It was developed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban in the 17th century for laying siege to fortresses. Its defensive use was first institutionalized as a tactic during the American Civil War. (trench warfare summary | Encyclopedia Britannica | Britannica online)

@dakotasilverman7915

11 ай бұрын

Even if the trench was invented in the 20th century I’d argue that the aircraft carrier is probably a better innovation

@domagojmendas1468

11 ай бұрын

@@dakotasilverman7915 Contraception is even better!

@dakotasilverman7915

11 ай бұрын

@@domagojmendas1468 I don’t see the military innovation there but yes!

@davidharris2147

11 ай бұрын

@Dakota Silverman Well, the hypersonic missile is far better than even an aircraft carrier. So is the Sarmat missile. Who really even needs a floating runway anymore when unstoppable missiles can hit the aircraft carrier and just sink that runway to the bottom of the ocean.

@SickPillow

11 ай бұрын

@@davidharris2147 Russian hypersonic missles are garbage. Patriot missile system is shooting them down as easily as normal missiles.

Trenches are not at all a new combat invention. They have been well documented throughout all of recorded history, and were likely used long before that too.

@user-kz7zp1xz6c

4 ай бұрын

Yea that part was bullshit. I just googeled it, the roman empire already used trenches in warfare.

@ILoveBluePeople

4 ай бұрын

Trenches were pretty shit before guns.... You'd be better off out of a trench if guns didn't exist... Easy to swing down on someone compared to up

Fantastic analysis and insight. Extremely well presented. You, sir, just earned yourself another subscriber.

I love how the background music is very relaxing and not brain washing at all. 20:13 "Anduril" ...where have I heard of those guys before? ...oh right, in your every video 😂

Chinese kids go to school to learn how to develop future technology. American kids go to school to learn about genders, protesting and hair dye.

Here's a fun game. Take a shot every time John mentions *_Shahed_*

@scroopynooperz9051

Жыл бұрын

I know a Shahed. He's a nice guy and a pacifist. I wonder what went wrong in this other Shahed's life that it chooses a life of suicide martyrdom

@Akash.Chopra

Жыл бұрын

@@scroopynooperz9051 🤣

@justinwallace390

Жыл бұрын

I'm drunk bro

Great vid, very informative. Best wishes for more content like this 👍

Outstanding job your perception of geopolitics I believe is right on for whatever that's over.

Shaheed in Arabic means 'martyr', befitting as it sacrifices itself. Iran really excel with their naming conventions when it comes to their own in-house weaponry.

Its quite the opposite actually. Ukraine has a bigger issue with drones - just find articles before counteroffensive where they were showing off their UAV capabilities...none of it is being displayed right now. Russia has somehow found a way to jam it and its been doing it quite successfully for a while now. Would like for Ukraine to step up its UAV game but without industry, its a tough sell.

@cproteus

11 ай бұрын

Ukraine presently still has more industrial capability than Russia due to sanctions.

@wolverinexman5105

11 ай бұрын

​​​​@@cproteusction? The sanction impose to Russia is a sanction to them...where can you see, you sanction yourself not allowing yourself to have electricity, is that sanction against Russia or sanction against you? Only western countries follow their sanction, not the world...look how Europe and america is collapsing because of inflation, high prices of gas and goods? While Russia gains more from selling gas to other nations, whole western countries buying Russian gas via other nations with mark up prices. Look?.western evil empire sanction their own selves. NATO. North Atlantic Terrorist Organization..

@abdou.the.heretic

11 ай бұрын

​@@cproteusMuh copes are running out

@NeostormXLMAX

11 ай бұрын

This channel is a us propaganda mouthpiece yet again

@funneymoney1

11 ай бұрын

I can’t take anyone serious that believes the US should be involved in the Ukraine conflict.

Excellent vid man, keep up the good work

Great work. Thanks

Anduril is going to seriously benefit from this clash.

Wow, what a great piece ....you obviously put a lot of work into this video! The one thing that seems to be missing is that, after you design all of these range, speed, camera and payload capabilities into these drones, you have to make them much less vulnerable to the electronic interference systems that Russia is using to take down so many of Ukraine's drones now.

@Kaatu-barada-nikto

10 ай бұрын

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@mexicanlucky

6 ай бұрын

Great piece? He didn't even mention the lancet or the object 51.

When they start giving drones AI autonomy, then we'll have a real problem.

good info thanks

This Coogan Show is always exciting 👍👍

@distorteddingo9230

Жыл бұрын

Complete NONSENSE propaganda!! UKRAINE no longer buys byraktur OR "switch blade" drones because Russians Air defense & EW figured out how to stop all these . That's why they lost Bakhmut 😂😂

It's not often I run into a fellow "Hound of War"... EXCELLENT video! Extremely professional, high-quality, in-depth work. Subscribed! (No Coogan bias!)

Wikipedia says the US made SwitchBlade 300 costs $6,000. That's really cheap. In comparison and M-16 rifle costs about $645 each. So not all US military drones are expensive.

Thanks! I was thinking it wasn’t a Bayraktar drone when I was listening to this, but I just could not remember what exactly was used. Now that you brought up the Neptune missiles, I remember that, & that they were created by UA. But, now I’m wondering which was the real mechanism used. Maybe, the drone was new to them & they didn’t want everyone to know about it, or who sold it to them, so they said they used their own weapon???

Drones themselves will become a commodity. It's how to use them smartly. Currently most deployments require one pilot per drone. So development in control systems and enabling the drone a degree of autonomy is where the step change will occur. Imagine launching a swarm that could think for themselves?

@peacepoet1947

11 ай бұрын

I've seen that in a Tech talk. They need a drone for taking out other enemy drones from the air rather than using a higher value missiles to take down enemy drones.

@karizma8175

11 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/da5lqpJre6S6obw.html Not quite :autonomy" as they are programmed - but it's happening

@mjmolina9747

11 ай бұрын

​@@peacepoet194768 pn

@billhughes9612

10 ай бұрын

@@peacepoet1947 Bullets from the ground are cheaper bar none.

@billhughes9612

10 ай бұрын

@@peacepoet1947 By the way no radar operator in their right mind is going to use a Patriot to take down a drone. ground based gunfire is the way to go. AK rounds are cheap and very good at ventilating anything in the air. ANything flying higher than AK rounds can be jammed.

Just found your channel and after watching this video to the end thought I would share how well presented, researched and consise it was. So many others add unnecessary drama and end of days messaging your content simply presents the facts and closes with a message of hope for the future. Subscribed 👍The only takeaway that I believe needs to be really highlighted is the industrial espionage aspect. Sure the US and it allies can invent the best tech but getting there costs $$$. China, well, I guess if you skip all the RnD skipping straight to manufacture and also not forgetting a little sprinkle of government inspired maket share over profit then who could compete? If the US is unable to control its secrets and refuses to sell to anyone then it's hard to see an insentive for any company to put the time, effort and money into the development of future platforms.

@planner37

11 ай бұрын

The FAA crushed the US drone industry before it ever got started. The rest of the world was using drones while the FAA banned them in the USA. Naturally China saw an opportunity and gained a monopoly. It was particularly galling to see that they were in common use in my industry in Fiji while I was not allowed to use them here in the US.

@Kaatu-barada-nikto

10 ай бұрын

Latest sit-rep.......kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZqeZmriIedjbmLw.html

An excellent presentation, thank you.

Thank you so much 😊 A very enjoyable and informative, clear and well presented video. I learned a lot here. Learned more about drones in almost 25 minutes, than in the last two years. We must innovate, streamline, focus and move, quickly and mindfully, to stay/get ahead of our adversaries. Subscribed 👍

@gavinpowell4607

8 ай бұрын

An "enjoyable" video...? It's not an episode of Friends mate, those drones kill people. Are you a comment bot?

Imagine a high altitude flying big drone able to drop a swarm of 20 smaller independent drones.

@dixonpinfold2582

9 ай бұрын

Ok, but why not 200 or 2,000? Or 20,000 the size of bees?

@jimalbi

8 ай бұрын

@@dixonpinfold2582 You'd need more than firecracker explosive charges...

@dixonpinfold2582

8 ай бұрын

@@jimalbi A drone bee with a firecracker or other noxious deliverable, possibly even a biological one, could get a lot done. Say the bee finds a pair of eyes in enemy territory and explodes very close up to them.

Great video and info. Now what's with the jazz hands?

The american entitlement in this video is something else

Hey John, are you personally invested in Anduril, or financially benefiting from mentioning them so often in your videos? If so - I feel like you should add this to your disclaimer. I'm noticing they are coming up a lot.

It seems your smart phone will become a weapon with drones

What are they going to be able to do once the next better battery comes out? These drones would not be possible if it wasn't for lipo type of batteries.

You want to fix this situation in the US? I have an answer. Create a new team sport called… Drone Dogfight! A TV show like Robot Wars, corporate sponsors, regional competitions feeding into national level competitions with significant cash prizes and recognition leading to potential employment in tech industry. Competition could be scaled for teams at different levels. It could start with basic racing and maneuvers in grade school. Middle school level would incorporate beginning to design and build, and engage in combat. This could progress all the way through to the graduate and post graduate level building and programming semi-autonomous air, land and sea drones operating in squadrons to achieve complex objectives. Parents and schools might really appreciate the STEM education their kids receive. Definitely, putting money into school clubs will help with acceptance. This way our country is better prepared for a technological future, as well as developing a depth of skill and talent that can contribute to national security as the need arises. It’s a concept as old as English longbow tournaments in the Middle Ages. So, what do you think? A new sport, coming soon to a field near you…

Illegally annexed how exactly?...they Democratically voted to join Russia.

@tristqnejdjeh7278

2 ай бұрын

Right. Probably with a 99.98% turnout and positive rating, from people that definitely lived there all their lives.

Anyone know the music for this video? Really cool, would love to hear it by itself.

good reporting Brother man!!!!

US could use the IT Software outsourcing route for drones and affordable defence tech with frendly neutral countries like India, vietnaam, Philippines, Taiwan etc these are willing to cooperate to mitigate the risk of chinese expansion. US software companies already have a huge presence in India and Philippines...the infrastructure is already inplace to venture into this new domain.

@Ikkeligeglad

11 ай бұрын

But we don't trust you in India just look what is happening now regarding to the situation in Ukraine , India only takes advantage of the situation and buy cheap crude oil from Russia and lets the Ukrainians die, shame on you!!

@yuriib5483

11 ай бұрын

hahahaha india, friendly, neutral, this is some funny koolaid you are drinking

@JeZZGro

11 ай бұрын

Lol most of them are joining BRICS. Welcome to reality western kid.

@B.D.E.

10 ай бұрын

Vietnam isn't friendly neutral when it comes to this conflict, not with their current, old-guard general secretary.

@vlad-marincalota6819

8 ай бұрын

Maybe just invest into Eastern Europe where IT guys work for the same price as Indians already? Idk, just saying

Damn man, you miffed it on this one. Lot of mistakes and I’m only about 5 min in. Two biggest were the claim that the US is no longer a leader in drone tech and a Bayraktar sunk the Moskva (I don’t even know where you got that. There was a rumor early on about one being used to distract radar operators, but even that theory is by now widely seen as discredited).

@jakehix8132

Жыл бұрын

Russia claimed the Moskva sank due to ammunitions exploding during a fire onboard. It's due to that fact that everything was speculated about at the time. There's very little reason to be miffed enough over that and a opinion statement about drone superiority, but you do you.

@neanda

Жыл бұрын

if you're only 5 mins in, maybe you should watch it all to get the bigger picture and have an informed opinion. also, you find out he's promoting Anduril, which is a for-profit company, war profiteering bascially. if they were non profit, it'd be a different story. but, tbh, this is just like a lengthy way to promote silicon valley so that they can have more avocado on toast. smh. the beginning bit was good though, but not when you find out it's a fluff piece for a company his friends have invested in. btw, William rumours are rife in the fog of war, that's the point. they're not facts and this comment will likely be deleted, like my other ones that give constructive criticism to the viewers but doesn't sit right with the creator. this is the one thing i don't like about youtube, that creators can delete comments so that only the ones that pander to them remain, rather than letting upvotes and downvotes control what comments make more sense. smfh

@williambrasky3891

11 ай бұрын

@@neanda Yea, I did. You’re right. That’s exactly what this was. He’s always given me that brogrammer vibe. Definitely not someone I’d ever trust, but despite having all his blood drained & injected by Peter Theil, he does produce relatively decent content. It’s good to have confirmation of that suspicion out in the open. So long as you approach it with that in mind, there’s plenty of value on offer left to find.

BTW, I just had a look at job opportunities and it looks like Aerovironment does engineering in Simi Valley CA and possibly production in Huntsville AL. The Arlington HQ would probably qualify as a sales office, which would make a lot of sense.

This guy is too good ... subscribed!

Very instructive! What's wrong and what could be done about it, excellent work!

The grenade + drone is a huge risk not only in war but also from a terror point of view. Both are very simple to acquire in some places and can be manned by few people totally hidden in car or elsewhere and attack anywhere. Every big country should get falcon trainers to get drones down anywhere they get for Falcons and other birds of prey are actually the most effiscient tools to get drones down even at high altitude.

@armondtanz

11 ай бұрын

Pigeons need to step up. Theyve lived off our free bread crumbs for decades. Its payback time!!!

@ThePhilosophyOfNature

11 ай бұрын

@@armondtanz Legendo! :))))))

@Lobos222

11 ай бұрын

That is not a huge risk tbh. These drones can also be jammed pretty easily.

@MrBashem

11 ай бұрын

@@Lobos222 Ah yes, everyone has a jammer in their backward. Maybe in the future but not right now. Instead of car bombings will be drone bombings.

@Lobos222

11 ай бұрын

@@MrBashem LoL, lets just say as a former shocktrooper myself. You would be surprised what we have...

9:10 John might of had a point about the trench and that it reached its highest development point in the 20th century, but it was invented in the 17th century by the french. personally, i think the tank was the most impactful military innovation during the early 20th century for it's ability to overcome the trench.

Good stuff!

Its 8 months since the video was published. How did it work out for Ukraine? 😂😂

we already have a counter to drone swarms, the C-UAS, a counter drone small arms style weapon, instead of bullets it emits EM waves to scatter signals, dropping almost any drone out of the sky since its connection to the pilot is cut, and it can down multiple at once

@Willy_Tepes

8 ай бұрын

It is no problem to program yourself around that issue.

@draconicisha

8 ай бұрын

@@Willy_Tepes yeah but autopiloting makes it so much easier to predict course and shoot down

@Willy_Tepes

8 ай бұрын

You don't get that AI can respond to onboard sensors and decide it's own course? I can even program it to fly like a bird would. Modern flight controllers can do terrain following. Shooting down something the size of a small bird that suddenly appears and is coming in your direction at 200 km/h is not an easy task. You wanna try hitting that with an AK?@@draconicisha

Maybe they could put up infrared protective nets over stationary, high value assets. Also, they could use the trophy system that tanks use to shoot down incoming anti-tank missiles to take down drones. Also, they say they want to put a 30 mm gun on the new MX tank. Maybe we should replace a few of those guns with lasers.

@okarinablues2135

5 ай бұрын

Laser is susceptible to vibrations, that's why its usage is so limited in army. The stabilization system would do wonders if you have such technology with you in battlefield.

John's editing and storytelling skills are unbelievable.

@simba8665

Жыл бұрын

​@human being exactly 💯. I'm starting to think some of these youtubers are sponsored by the CIA

Funfact, my gf was back in russia for a few weeks and sold her dji drone while she was there and it was bought after just 20 hours of putting it online buy the military.

@Tespri

11 ай бұрын

so your girlfriend is single handedly responsible of murder of little children in another country.

Bang on target - deserves more views, comments, and likes!

Very good video. Ty

Uhh.. what about Ukraines drone problem ??

@ygryaznov

7 ай бұрын

he is not gonna cover it. cause they paid him for this video. as soon as russians pay - then he will talk

@dewberry3043

7 ай бұрын

Ukraine NATO Proxy war does not have a problem. They are always correct and never goes wrong haha

Bro, how much did Lucky pay you to glaze him this hard? I'm only mad cause you edged us the whole vid, I was like "he better know about Anduril's ramming drone, and shill my boy Palmer Lucky" when you started with that weak ass drone bumper cars vid. Cool vid though. We lasers for drone interdiction too, and we've been sitting on functional designs since 2001, we just scrapped the project because it was using a chemical laser source, and the cost and the mass was undesirable, so we switched to electrical sourced lasers, and we're operating at sea a 150kw laser and developing models that run at 300ish, long term plans are to get close to MW scale if they can make the electronics reliable at that scale It's like a bunch of projects too, not just one that might get canceled, and they are already operating trials in Israel for balloon and drone interdiction, though I think at reduced kw ratings for those models. China isn't really ahead, they just make stuff that's a better deal, but like you really think DJI prosumer drones would be successfully flying over US forces?

@jakehix8132

Жыл бұрын

"but like you really think DJI prosumer drones would be successfully flying over US forces" not 1 to 1, but sending tens of thousands of drones, with a small percentage tipped with warheads > conventional air force ability to defend.

@markallen6433

Жыл бұрын

​@@jakehix8132 Yeah, sure, that could work if you had 10k drones, armed, and an ability to control all of them effectively at the same time, and the US didn't know that you had this insane concentration motherload of drones, because if the US knew you had them, they'd just air strike them in the logistics portion of their movement to the front. Also assuming here that the control scheme is hardened to US EW jamming and disorientation... also assuming the US isn't fielding things like the C-RAM or the laser analog, cause if you weaponize a drone, and then a laser or a gatling gun takes it out with a few rounds, kinda a bad trade for the drone builder. US army has things like the Stryker with EW specialization, the Stryker with the SHORAD kit and the Directed Energy SHORAD version. I mean those are actively being produced for 2 years on the former and the latter's in field trials pew pewing drones. So Yeah, if you could get 10k drones up to the front lines without the US knowing, and those 10k drones were EW hardened, and you launched them at whatever, and you could successfully coordinate the massive horde of drones, that one thing would be super dead, but like, comeon, you get why this is a silly circumstance right? The US isn't drone-immune, but it's not like we have the same thorns that the UAF have. We're many orders of magnitude spikier than they are, when we are correctly deployed. I think that the tech that would be needed to really overwhelm the US force composition is going to have to be a swarm of self guiding AI controlled drones that have some ver clever stealthy approach, and I don't think anything like it is on the field yet, Very worried about when that does hit the battlefield, because it's going to obliterate any force, or any group of civilians it comes across, and some really bad things are going to happen in some places when thats a cost effective tool.

@tomw6117

Жыл бұрын

Dji is actually the company that makes civilian drones. People in China use DJI drones to spray pesticides and take videos. Because the Chinese government refuses to supply both Russia and Ukraine with military equipment, they can only buy DJI drones.

Excellent presentation...well done

The model you used for presending DJI Mavic is actually a DJI Mini 2

Great presentation, as always. I'd like to make the point here ... and I know it's kind of obvious, but it bears repeating ... that in addition to evolving the technical pacing and deterrence aspect of these technologies, similar effort must be expended on diplomatic engagement, and economic and strategic alignment, wherever possible, in order to avoid escalation towards kinetic conflict. Without this, the whole drone arms race thing is just a dystopian suicide mission that ruins economies and harms already difficult demographics. Every patriot of every nation, and every member of the human species, should take their thinking up to the level of considering what this all means overall. Drone on drone warfare is, I guess, harmless enough, in an of itself, but automated murder is very obviously in the category of "yes, but should we?" We need to focus on what kind of a world we actually want, and how we motivate people to build that. There's plenty of fun engineering to do, without this insanity.

@khiem1939

11 ай бұрын

True, but when a nation is fighing for it's existence against a bigger invader, they have to use whatever is available to ensure their survival! Seems YOU are unaware that there are some nations, like Russia, whose entire History for over the past several hundred years has been agression against their smaller and weaker neighbors!

@barbaraseymour3437

11 ай бұрын

@@khiem1939 But we do need idealists or we are truly lost.

@kaylidington

11 ай бұрын

We need to, simply because others without scruples will do. It is rather the same argument about nuclear weapons and armies: you need them so you do not have to use them.

@Iv4Bez

10 ай бұрын

'what kind of a world we actually want' yep, the same questions Putin asked for years...

@pilate7004yt

9 ай бұрын

@@khiem1939 I rather prefer to deal with the issues rather than allegations about myself from people who don't know me, or what I think. However, seeing as you asked so nicely... yes, I am aware of the political situation between Russia and Ukraine, including the bit that you left out about the US/NATO pushing NATO membership on Ukraine, which was always going to be a provocation and end in disaster. Anyone with an ounce of common sense could see that driving NATO to the Russian border would disrupt the strategic equilibrium. I'm not saying that taking an alternative approach would have resulted in a utopian outbreak of rainbows and unicorns, but pretty much anything would be better than the absolute 💩-show going down there now. My sympathies are certainly with the people of Ukraine-just for more nuanced reasons.

Big thanks for making a video on this aspect of the war. The drone is inspired by the Chinese Mugin-5, it is an amazing tech. This drone is changing the war and is a beast of its kind. Seems America is lagging.

@esnardojaredralph94

Жыл бұрын

their hindering themselves by those agreement while their enemy uses every tool at the disposal, every strategy to win

@biggestouf

Жыл бұрын

The US has been experimenting for a while now. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dp6Jxrixequcqaw.html Remember not everything is public.

@distorteddingo9230

Жыл бұрын

Complete NONSENSE propaganda!! UKRAINE no longer buys byraktur OR "switch blade" drones because Russians Air defense & EW figured out how to stop all these . That's why they lost Bakhmut 😂😂

@USandGlobal

11 ай бұрын

Where do those chips in the drones come from ?😂

@esnardojaredralph94

11 ай бұрын

@@USandGlobal china, or silicon valley

Imagine a advanced DJI drone with a LIDAR scanner, IR sensor. That would be so useful for these tasks.

@brodriguez11000

10 ай бұрын

One thing they all have in common. A high auditory signature.

@krivdaa9627

7 ай бұрын

It's DJI Mavic-3T

Amazing info

This video was incredibly insightful, good video John. But man, I don't know if I'm weird for feeling this but it hurts so much knowing human nature(with wars, conflicts, and genocide) make investments into such massive vehicles of destruction a requirement for all sides

@ColdHawk

10 ай бұрын

I feel it too. Having grown up during the Cold War I had hopes that peace and prosperity would be the legacy our kids received. Unfortunately it looks like we _Homo sapiens_ haven’t grown up enough yet. Maybe our progress as a species is like a “cha-cha,” just as individual human development often is; two steps forward - one step back - two steps forward - one step back….

@dixonpinfold2582

9 ай бұрын

Yeah well, we're primates, not ethereal beings. We run mainly on neurotransmitters, hormones and deeply incised instincts. And we always will unless something major happens to our DNA or its expression.

whatever research topic you tell to us, becomes a masterpiece!

was vibing to that back ground music

John, talking about trenches: The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side, and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other. The Maoris used trenches in their defensive battles. So not an invention of the last century but in fact the century before.

I have a crazy idea on how to secure trenches from drones. A roof

@Akash.Chopra

Жыл бұрын

That type of bleeding edge technology won't be available for a few years..

@slmille4

Жыл бұрын

Defeated by…using two grenades instead of one

@dirtypure2023

Жыл бұрын

Trenches are not permanent defensive fixtures where you pour in resources for long-term occupancy. They are transitory and cheap, easily established and easily abandoned. Imagine roofing miles of trenches in an active warzone only to have your position overtaken the next day because your forces were focused on infrastructure instead of recon and defense. I think in near future it won't be uncommon to see trench-bound defensive units equipped with tech to detect drone reconnaissance and blast them with focused radio interference to knock them out of the sky. But roofed trenches, I don't think are likely.

@jackofthecoke

Жыл бұрын

Trenches just aren't used by modern militaries anymore

@start2957

Жыл бұрын

@@jackofthecoke according to who? Trenches will always be a thing

this video didnt age well

@tristqnejdjeh7278

2 ай бұрын

Haven't heard much about prigohzhin lately huh? That's weird. Prighozhins plane gets shot out of the sky over russia and all of a sudden it's back to your regularly scheduled programming

I wish you were more transparent about your involvement with the companies you advertise but thanks for making quality regardless.

Australia makes super cheap drones - balsa wood if I recall correctly, making it the drone equivalent of the De Havilland Mosquito. They're a US ally.

Meanwhile....russis is winning the war

The propaganda just doesnt stop, huh?

Nice Brooks Bros Polo!