September 21, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Where do you all think it will go? [Timrframe of say, 30-40 years]
For instance, a bare-bone short list of possibilities:
1. All combat operations performed by UCAVs piloted from safe locations, with secure uplinks.
2. All combat operations performed by UCAVs using autonomous software.
3. DEWs on large aircraft [such as a refitted B-52, or 777 etc] which is more akin to the protective bubble formed by AEGIS missile destroyers/cruisers around a carrier.
4. Widespread use of anti-satellite weaponary [be they lasers or conventional kinetic weapons] which reduce effectiveness of GPS and thus alot of guidance systems.
5. Hypersonic space-skimming bombers.
6. Development of DEWs to the point where all atmospheric based “air-warfare” is obsolete as its suicidal, hence into space warfare.