Defo seeing a new evolution of technology with this stuff, what with the Royal Navy using the jet packs as well. Although looking at it, it makes me wonder why it has taken so long to get to this stage, after our decades knowledge of flight and building vehicles such as hovercrafts. Although the current stage of this technology still seems a bit cumbersome.
we've become more energy efficient, lighter batteries with better output, so there's a better power to weight ratio.
Probably all or most of them with the development of lightweight body armour, hand held weapons as powerful as artillery, and invisibility cloaking, robots will not replace ground troops entirely but the ground troops will be almost as indestructible as robots The future is both exciting and terrifying
I saw a programme a while back where a guy was covered in tattoos but half of them were printed circuits which opened and started his car, opened his front door and controlled his aircon etc Trouble is if he changes his car and or moves he will be ****ed
On the one hand I think drone technology is so much cheaper and effective, its remote nature means you don't have risk human life or worry about public opinion in terms of body bags coming in. On the other hand I remember that old military addage that you can't win a war from the air, in the end you need boots on the ground. Which means there's scope for having humans physically a part of drone warfare. On a side note I think anything that removes humans from war, makes war far too easy and respect for life minimalised becoming nothing more than a statistic like a computer game.
There is an element of this in watching Ukraine v Russia on the news, we are so used to watching war films with graphic details that seeing it for real doesn't hit us as hard as it did 40 or 50 years ago When people who have fought in a real war are no longer around the real impact of war will be lost
