From just a purely engineering standpoint these types of weapons make a great deal of common sense. This is the future, like it or not. A drone is always going to be able to out G anything with a human onboard. Plus without the need for things like ejection seats, pressurization and environmental systems the drone is always going to be lighter, faster and more maneuverable as well as cheaper to build and maintain. Additionally when a drone gets shot down there’s no need to launch multiple men and equipment to conduct a search and recovery operation since there’s nothing to recover. It just makes so much more sense.

@MrMannyhw

7 ай бұрын

Better have self destruct bomb on it to destroy itself if it get shot down.

@calokraine5901

7 ай бұрын

Another game changer 😂

@amazinkay4512

7 ай бұрын

Yeah except you forget the lag of decision and maneuvering. A human cab make real tine decisions on their own. They know when to pull off and disengage. These systmes sre not a gane changer.

@savagecub

7 ай бұрын

@@amazinkay4512 If one were to apply that logic then why would we ever use Cruise missiles ? Heck, why would we use any missiles ?

@MiddleAgedMillenial

7 ай бұрын

We’ve had drones for like 10-15 years now tho? This is just the newest model. We really don’t need an iPhone upgrade drone each year.

3,000 mile range, 1800 lbs of munitions, and under $10M, with low radar signature. What an awesome machine.

@deeppointturkiye2666

7 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@kenmurray4005

7 ай бұрын

Waste of money. Just like the F-35's that the USA refuses to give to Ukraine because the USA is afraid Russia might shoot one down. I'm sure China is aware of how scared the USA is to deploy these advanced systems. They'll be fine for air shows within the USA though.

@mikelbrenn111

7 ай бұрын

Correction, it will be $30 mil when it comes out for sale.

@LACHIVA1969

7 ай бұрын

Reduce the range to 700, miles, make it disposable, and reduce the price to 1 million and there goes the Kerch Bridge. Send 15 to 20 cheap rockets to get the Russian air defense crazy, or even firecrackers.

@Laminar-Flow

7 ай бұрын

@@Moskva-uf9bc *cheers for russia*

I always think about the relative weight against grand pianos when guessing weight of large heavy objects.

@Michael4x

7 ай бұрын

Well, at least they didn't use the weight of bananas per black hole.

@tonytaskforce3465

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, I'm always out there comparing things to grand pianos. I'm glad it's not just me. 🤯

@jmorrison5206

7 ай бұрын

Makes the Imperial System look downright levelheaded.

@gobimurugesan2411

27 күн бұрын

Maurican system

if anything, the Valkyrie looks pretty badass lol

@Kenneth_James

7 ай бұрын

Good name too

@duran9664

7 ай бұрын

But.. can’t be used on reality in most cases😒..like the Russian hypersonic missiles, expensive more advanced weapons limit targets. u only use them against extremely valuable target or it would be waste of money🤏

@CasualGuy60

7 ай бұрын

I wonder when we will see or whether we will even see Marauder drones from the Division 2 game in real life

@navyseal1689

7 ай бұрын

​@duran9664 this drone is disposable, send them to Chinese carrier fleet. It will sink all of em

This platform should be adopted. It is one of the most mature unmanned systems out. Kratos is a smaller player, but history tells us that can be a good thing with us government contracts.

@jonathanpfeffer3716

7 ай бұрын

It absolutely will be, if not by the US then by someone else. It’s an amazing platform that fits literally perfectly into the Pacific theater’s strategic calculus.

@Propaneo-insaneo

3 ай бұрын

If your watching it on KZread, it is probably in gen 3 at least

@GM-xk1nw

2 ай бұрын

@@Propaneo-insaneo ok grandpa

weighs about two or three concert grand pianos? riiight... because the average heft of concert grand pianos is common knowledge. can i get the weight of the valkyrie in units of washing machines? or how about in truck tires?

@waxinyomomma13

7 ай бұрын

I literally thought the same thing but why not say,"the weight of a small car,"Or "several plastic sporks?"

@leftwingersareweak

7 ай бұрын

Lol! How about it weighs about the equivalent of 50 Chinese spies?

@leftwingersareweak

7 ай бұрын

​@waxinyomomma1375 quick, without doing a web search, what is the typical approximate weight of a small car? 😊

@waxinyomomma13

7 ай бұрын

@@leftwingersareweaklol 2500 lbs?

@waxinyomomma13

7 ай бұрын

The first "small car"suggestion was a better suggestion... the "sporks" for play play.

The fact that it doesn't need a run way either way is huge. Can bring air power to bear from anywhere!

People just throw out the buzzword AI for everything. If he means autonomous flight and control, then he should just say that. People have been using machine learning since the 90s or even earlier.

@CaptainBrawnson

7 ай бұрын

They're not referring to simple autonomous drones. They mean actual AI agents with decision making authority. Look up the Skyborg program and the recent test flights with AI agents flying real world F-16s in exercises.

@sams8502

7 ай бұрын

@@CaptainBrawnson My guy, AI agents and autonomous flight/control are literally the same thing. Nothing in AI is particularly novel, we've had perceptrons and regression algorithms for well over many decades. The use of "AI" for marketing is overblown, I can guarantee you that it's nowhere as intelligent as you think it is. The only thing novel is that they're actually willing to trust drones to be autonomous.

@everypitchcounts4875

7 ай бұрын

General Dynamics X-62 VISTA. US has a fleet of AI piloted F-16s

As a middle eastern, I can’t wait to be bummed by one of those. 😂 Forget about human error, now we have to worry about Ai errors as well 😂

This is both impressive and horrifying at the same time.

The US are always the innovators, awesome job USA

I’m an aerospace engineering student designing autonomous drones that drop water bottles on targets. It is incredible how easily and rapidly college students can create these devices at very low cost with the technology available to the public. With the US’ defense spending and available technologies, it’s difficult to imagine what we have in our arsenal.

@MishaAmashukeli

7 ай бұрын

How difficult and expensive would it be to make that watter bottle guided, so you you could drop it from 600 meters with high precision? A mini-JDAM basically. Asking for an Ukrainian friend :)

@drone51

7 ай бұрын

@@MishaAmashukeli literally $10k it’s absurdly easy

@navyseal1689

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's just RC plane. So I never amazed when a country produces drone

@MishaAmashukeli

7 ай бұрын

@@drone51 If fpv drones cost 400$, why does a glide bomb that needs no propulsion(just 4 control surfaces and actuators), no camera(let's assume it uses radio SACLOS guidance), and a much shorter comms range, cost so much more? Which parts are the most expensive? I'm not talking about R&D, just unit cost.

This is horrifying and fascinating at the same time. I believe that in nearest future more powerful military will be not even for the number of drones or other hardware but for more witted algorithms and AI systems on that hardware. And also it will be about clever orchestration of all that stuff.

oh it weighs the same as 3 Grand Pianos? everyone knows how much that is. I'm glad they didn't compare it to other aircraft weights for instance

@GungaLaGunga

7 ай бұрын

lol I always love how journalists use comparisons that give absolutely no help to understanding whatever they are explaining. I always joke we should use one standard, the Little Smokie, for dimensions, weights, and volumes. Yes those little sausages. Example: That length is the same as Little Smokies stacked end to end going to the moon and back seven times. See. A perfectly comprehesible immediately understandable explaination.

@sagoamicably6486

7 ай бұрын

Or a compact car or something

@user-sx9dj4oi7t

28 күн бұрын

🤖

The airframe looks very similar to the German-Spanish EADS Barracuda which had its first flight in 2003 or so. Barracuda was way ahead of its time.

@onyxfinger7431

7 ай бұрын

The airframe itself doesn't mean a ton.

@asdasdasddgdgdfgdg

7 ай бұрын

@@onyxfinger7431 true but back then, in the late 90s early 00s, EVERYONE designed drones completely differently. Drones looked either like Dassault Neutron or like Northrop Global Hawk. These were the two common layouts for jet Propeller UAVs or UCAVs. And now for the last years, everyone copies the Barracudas airframe, even Russia (Kronstadt Grom) and India (HAL CATS).

@asdasdasddgdgdfgdg

7 ай бұрын

*jet propelled, stupid autocorrect

@dianapennepacker6854

7 ай бұрын

Sadly stealth means many future aircraft will look similar. This thing seems like a step backwards. It is so small, and so not a lot of internal space for either long stand off weapons or fuel. I would say it wouldn't be an issue if it will mean you get a ton more for the buck. Yet ha. Haha! Yeah that ain't happening.

@darkodonnie2729

7 ай бұрын

And what's surprising in that ?? Almost all of US weapons origin can be traced back to German engineering & their military Tech.

"It's my time", said by Skynet.

@SHO1989

7 ай бұрын

You beat me to this comment😂! First thing I thought watching this was Skynet is almost here. Anyone seen John Conner lately?

@tfkia356

7 ай бұрын

The "AI" they're describing is a glorified flowchart. People need to stop mixing up Sci-fi and reality.

@fintech1378

7 ай бұрын

Yea this is exactly how it plays out in the Terminator too

@arboghast8505

7 ай бұрын

"Eddy is the whole idea"

So everything that is autonomous is called AI now. Is my 10-year-old Roomba also AI now?

@portcybertryx222

7 ай бұрын

Technically yeah. I mean perception and planning is an integral part of AI which is what the Roomba does so yeah that’s AI.

7 ай бұрын

@@dmeister98Or, AI is a buzzword that is so ambiguous that it effectively means nothing.

@stephengraham1153

7 ай бұрын

@ It's just a computer program. Like all programs it can be broken down to millions of individual operations of input, process, output.

@kevinlow69420

7 ай бұрын

Yes

A big advantage for using AI for aircraft / ships is that the skies and seas tend to be far simpler, as environments, than land regions tend to be. The AI doesn't have to do nearly as much processing, and it's a lot more likely to make good decisions (especially against air-based/sea-based targets).

I want to be part of this. This is freakin awesome!

@multiverseofmalice7795

7 ай бұрын

dw, you'll be one of its victims in the upcoming AI uprising

Still primitive, but over time it will work. Clear to see the technical evolution. From stealth to drones, to stealthy drones, to AI controlled stealthy drones.

@DarthVader20201

6 ай бұрын

And on its wat to Skynet 😅😅😅

@burtan2000

6 ай бұрын

Think of how far we've come in 20 yrs. I believe it was the early days of Obama admin when they drones were strictly for surveillance and they had a confirmed sighting or location of Bin ladin, but were unable to take him out bc drones had no weapons and the target went underground before manned craft could get there. So they put weapons systems on them. Now we have drones of every shape, size, and use on the water in the air on the ground. Ukrainians taking out Russians with relatively cheap drones and grenades. Now Hamas is doing that too

@burtan2000

6 ай бұрын

@@DarthVader20201We should remain thankful to Cameron for solidifying that concern in our collective consciousness. At EVERY step with AI and drone tech Skynet is mentioned (as it should be) But that was hardly the first rogue AI in fiction that killed people. Still it's the one we all mention. Not the Matrix sentinels or HAL from 2001. Turns out AI poses a very different threat. It's like TicToc - a threat to what's good in our society. Like how AI art is taking over and stealing artists' styles generating loads of mediocre stuff for pennies.

france signing that agreement not to use AI for military vehicles is going to keep it wayyyy back compared to other countries

looks like a deadly "Thunderbird "

I guess Army of Drone program from Ukraine side in the war has made a significant impact on the US military. It shows how the future WILL be shaped!

Begun, the drone wars have...

@user-zp6dz9jw3g

7 ай бұрын

这些该死的军火商又需要钱，随便找个国家就说是他们的威胁。比如出现频率最多的中国，俄罗斯，伊朗……为什么？因为这些国家不听美国左右，想让自己家国民过的更幸福。华盛顿邮报是军火商和美国资本寡头的口舌

Valkyrie- Old Norse meaning: 'chooser of the slain' Perfect name

Can't we all just get along ?

MCAS Miramar is where that hangar is. I was at that airshow and saw this display.

Given the nature and mission requirements and capabilities no one drone (AI/or not), as well as keeping the cost low, there must be a "family" of drones for dedicated roles in the future fighter strike group. There will be "loyal wingman" to provide traditional "wingman" roles to protect the designated leaders of airstrike groups. As well as drones for ELINT warfare. As well as drones dedicated for attack rolls. The "loyal wingman" will require attributes of a modern stealth fighters to escort the manned fighters into any future battles.

Better armed, better tech, better range, cheaper than the Reaper drone

This is the future for certain. Better start buying up all the Kratos shares you can!

Very cool they should add a modular infrastructure

Isn’t it better if we’re just throwing robots at robots? Like, in the future if the human is completely out of the equation, all war would be is throwing metal at metal and seeing which one wins.

@mmaranta785

7 ай бұрын

And then recycling of course.

@mill2712

7 ай бұрын

​@@mmaranta785 Not entirely. In order to win you'd still need to target fuel depots, drone manufacturing centers and command staff. While this could reduce the amount of people who perish, people will still die.

@dinte215

7 ай бұрын

Lol. No, those drones are going to kill people just like the current ones.

"...we chose to act in a way that conforms with our values..."

pretty awesome!

What a well spoken guy

Thank you

It should get some… live action tests in Ukraine. Send them 50 of those a year. It is not expensive for its capabilities and will help from a program-perspective

@adamsojka3345

7 ай бұрын

I bet the thought has occured to them, the reason for many arms companies not doing so is a mystery to me.

@Skymenace

7 ай бұрын

First of all it's not ready to be deployed yet. But the answer is obvious to your question. The Russians will do everything to strike one down and recover its pieces and eventually, they will manage to do so, then you have lost years of technological development. Billions of dollars spent on technological advantage will be gone in a matter of months if not days...

You need 2-3 to trail every jet. You can make some very cheap ones to draw missiles away from Jets as decoys. At the last seconds they can do high-g maneuvers that could escape the rockets. Then automatically catch up to the US jet.

"Let's do that!!" - DoD after watching The Terminator

Within the first fraction of a second when I seen that on the launchpad. I thought World War II Germany, the V2 rocket.

So it weighs between 20 to 30 washing machines?

@JT-hx8xr

3 ай бұрын

What does that equal in microwaves?

@stevenkidd6761

3 ай бұрын

@@JT-hx8xr industrial or dorm sized? 97.8 (+/- 2.7 ) for regular home microwaves...

MORE drones!!! 🎉

Aaaahhh! The US military industrial complex, I smell victory!

hmmm. Only thing it lacks is Skynet. We're getting there.

I hope it has a self-destruct mechanism to prevent it's secret technology from getting into the wrong hands in case it malfunctions and is recovered by the enemy.

@dolanpls3330

6 күн бұрын

I doubt that's an oversight, it likely would have something designed to serve that purpose

WSJ: why so much debt? Also WSJ: We Love Defense Spending!

Our values! The US has values! Wow!

AI can't even write a decent research paper, making life and death decisions with 1800 lbs of ordinance on board doesn't give me warm feelings of safety. Instead, I get that, we're really going down that road feeling.😮

How do they recover this drone ?

@staticoverplastic7456

7 ай бұрын

parachute

@electron6825

7 ай бұрын

It dives into the nearest crowd

@Nainara32

7 ай бұрын

That's a good question. Can it land on a carrier, or does it need an airfield with a long runway?

@radustana

Ай бұрын

Drones can already land themselves just fine

@28704joe

Ай бұрын

@@radustana Too bad the video didn't show the Valkyrie landing.

Thanks, Wall Street Journal.

Please, could you provide weight measurements on a full-size fridge scale next time as I'm unfamiliar with grand piano metrics.

Escalate? I would assume you would only deploy this in a war situation. Escalation is the last thing you would care about. Neutralizing your enemies would be top priority.

Love the design its so sleek!

Gradius

These should really be equipped with that new military laser.

All the missiles need to be painted with Winnie The Pooh on their sides 😆

For the cost of one F35 you can have 15 of these valkyries. In a straight up dogfight the F35 could probably win a 15 vs 1 but the valks are replaceable and the F35 is not.

@yarmgl1613

7 ай бұрын

these drones are bombers/strike aircraft, not fighters

@alexomar9168

7 ай бұрын

@@yarmgl1613 ahh okay I may have misunderstood. I assume the point stands, that an unmanned fighter would be similarly cheap, but yeah I don't actually know.

How does it land?

Skynet origin story. Note my words!

Everyone cheers while we start building the terminator air force. This is the beginning of the end, friends

well the problem is that the tech is moving faster than the decision makers.

You want SkyNet and Terminators? ‘Cause this is how you get SkyNet and Terminators.

Gotta prep for Drone wars 😮

Here comes skynet :D

Oh Look, A Civilian Airliner

@monkeeseemonkeedoo3745

7 ай бұрын

Most mentally stable drone

The thunderbird five model springs to mind. Didn’t see any nylon threads throw.

@stephengraham1153

7 ай бұрын

Hmmm... Thunderbird five was the orbital space station. I think you are confusing it with thunderbird 2.

It would be much more financially feasible to mass produce these instead of an expensive aircraft like the F-35.

US needs to focus on extremely cheap weapons 🤏

Seeing this bird you understand that vlad has no chances at all i mean zero😂

What's the error rate of piloted planes? What is the basis for assuming autonomous drones will have higher error rates than piloted planes?

@carloshour8263

7 ай бұрын

Simply inexperience. Once AI learns to override the human fail safes, we'll see how good they are. It will also be the last thing we see

@emoneytrain

7 ай бұрын

@@carloshour8263 Fair, although I imagine the models behind the AI pilots are trained on historical data (every combat flight in history, potentially) and against other human-controlled agents in simulation.

@stephengraham1153

7 ай бұрын

@@emoneytrainchips can fail and so can software so I hope the manufacturers have built in enough redundancy to accommodate combat situations.

Peace through Strength 🦬🌀🇺🇸

its kinda funny how they mentioned the price oh its alot cheaper than a manned jet...i can guarantee they are still ripping off the gov its so overpriced im sure compared to if the french or gb or ukraine made the same thing

@CalvinK-the_old_fogey

7 ай бұрын

And using China as bogeyman to squeeze every last drop of funding. Previously it was Russia or USSR. I bet it’s going to be India or Brazil in the future. 😂

Skynet is live!!!!!!

Curved shape is the last thing you want when designing a stealth aircraft. Curved shapes reflect radar signals more readily than flat or angular shapes. Please correct this.

@geogmz8277

7 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same when she said it... "if round/curve is what you want, why do all stealth fighters look like someone went crazy with a triangular ruler?"

Skynet has entered the building.

It's crazy to think that defence systems in the near future will also have the touch of AI. Sounds fascinating but risky too given that the program needs more tweaks . But so far this tech looks really good.

When the video first started, I thought I was watching Thunderbird 2. 😆

Dude at 1:00 sounds like Hank Hill. Not that that's bad.

China’s entire fleet of drones will respond to _”Hey Siri…”._

what better laboratory than the bloodsoaked battlefield

Iran is doing similar with their drones. Iran is making drones that can carry a bomb, some that have air to air heat seeking missiles and some that are decoys. This isnt a new concept. The difference between iran and the U.S. is that the U.S. is very high tech and with possible AI while Iran's is mostly off the shelf components made from wood and fiberglass.

@HyzersGR

7 ай бұрын

These are stealth and autonomous. Different class of weapons.

@28ebdh3udnav

7 ай бұрын

@@HyzersGR same concept in swarming an area with drones to take other drones and also attack with drones while saving the pilot. Very similar concept, different approach

@28ebdh3udnav

5 ай бұрын

​@@HyzersGRIran has thousands of drones they could fly at a moments notice

How does the Valkyrie compare to the Anduril/Blue-Force Fury? They should have put landing gear on the UAS...Valkyrie.

Russian Sukhoi-70 Okhotnik stealth drone has 6000 mile range and 4500 lb. capacity, and prototypes already spotted over Ukraine. Outperforms Valkyrie at half the cost.....which we now see is typical of all Russian weapons vs. their Western equivalent

@stephengraham1153

7 ай бұрын

With one big difference. Western equivalents tend to be more reliable.

Does a 3,000 mile range mean out and back, or, because it’s a drone, does that mean just “out”. 3,000 both ways is giant…even in the Pacific.

@flyingyakdeath

7 ай бұрын

Range is range. Standard aviation term for 100 years.

@jonathanpfeffer3716

7 ай бұрын

Just out. Combat radius is both ways.

@LeonAust

7 ай бұрын

Some drones are not designed to return and others are designed to return, therefore it depends on the drone.

Pffft only 1800 pounds of bombs? Not even a single 2,000 lb bomb?

Terrifying

Need a sky full of million of AI drones 🫡 swarm of small, to large drones

that is the Drone in Modern Warships

When we develop the first AI fighter jet is all over 😂

Modern manned aircraft should be designed only to be super stealthy and fast and have enough computing power to control and be the satalight datalink to pass info and control AI autonomous aircraft, so all manned aircraft should forget about having the need to be manoeuverable as it’s no longer needed in the modern battle space, plus new missiles should be the only thing that needs to be able and designed to out manoeuvre enemy aircraft and kill them at extreme distances

@fuzfire

7 ай бұрын

After what Elon Musk did to Ukraine in shutting down his starlink satellites I'd be very careful about giving him access to any military capabilities for The US. Yes I know he has done a lot of good things but this behavior is very concerning at least to me as he may pivot on a whim and cause grave harm to an operation if he doesn't like what's going down. JMHO!

@Dan-lg2by

6 ай бұрын

That's exactly what the air force NGAD and navy F/A/XX 6th gen fighter programs are making

The 🤨pentagon has been watching my Kerbal builds 😆😆😆

Could we perhaps try to not have adversaries?

We're doing Skynet lol

War isn't key to solve problems in the world.

Looks like Terminator

The stealth movie coming true.😬😬😬

Skynet f yeah

Thunderbird VI?

0:28 do people really need to talk up or overhype the capabilities of potential adversaries to justify the US making advancement in these fields?

⚠️But.. can’t be used in reality in most cases as it always needs valuable targets😒 US military main goal seems to enrich their contractors first instead of practical & logical solutions.