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The US army plans to combat a Chinese invasion of Taiwan by flooding the narrow Taiwan Strait with swarms of thousands and thousands of autonomous drones.
I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities so that I can make their lives utterly miserable for a month, which buys me the time for the rest of everything, US Indo-Pacific Command chief Navy Admiral Samuel Paparo told the Washington Post.
The drones are intended to confuse enemy aircraft, provide targeting for missiles to knock out warships and generally create chaos. The Ukrainians have been pioneering the use of drones in warfare, destroying 26 Russian vessels and forcing the Black Sea Fleet to retreat.
Ironically, most of the parts in Ukraines drones are sourced from China, and there are doubts over whether America can produce enough drones to compete.
To that end, the Pentagon has earmarked $1 billion this year for its Replicator initiative to mass-produce the kamikaze drones. Taiwan also plans to procure nearly 1,000 additional AI-enabled drones in the next year, according to the Taipei Times. The future of warfare has arrived.
