Dayton Daily News: Drones, lasers, hypersonic weapons will be ‘game-changers’
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Air Force Research Laboratory work on key technologies in hypersonic air vehicles, directed-energy weapons and autonomy, or human-machine teaming, will be “game-changers” in a renewed Pentagon push to counter new threats around the globe, according to a top military commander.
Scientists and engineers at Wright-Patterson have developed an unarmed “cruise missile-like vehicle” that reached five times the speed of sound in tests, and have explored pairing drones with combat fighters in latest realm of technological advances, according to AFRL commander Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Masiello, who will retire next month at the agency’s headquarters at Wright-Patterson.
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WNU Editor: A good summary on what is coming down the pipeline .... or at least what Pentagon planners are hoping will come down.
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Followed by nuclear bombs. After that the next war, WW IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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