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Elon Musk at AFA's Air Warfare Symposium
https://youtu.be/dPwxfzvhlLA One tidbit at 29mins, Starlinks are now cheaper to make than launch (even with reused fairings), and Elon keen to launch them on Starship to bring cost down further. Also, Elon trying to push Starship Earth Transit to Air Force - “Land anywhere really fast!” - “like an ICBM, just remove the nuke and replace with landing gear”. Elon believes jet fighters are obsolete compared with drone warfare. Put 2 & 2 together, and you get a 100 tonne, ‘drone army’ being controlled over Starlink and possibly launched to anywhere in the world in 30 minutes on a Starship. It was a little interesting to see how ‘remote’ he seems to be from staff motivation, just ‘carrot and stick’ not recognising the individual passion people bring for his ‘big causes’. Elon will launch Starlink satellites ASAP using Starship. Cheaper to make 60 than launch them ..... incredible progress The fighter jet era has passed. AI based UAVs will rule mid and local airspace. Alway's have a maximized batting average under development. Don't worry about IP - worry about rate of innovation and always accelerate it. Incentive structure must be aligned with accelerating innovation rate. China's economy will be 2 to 3 times as big as the US. The foundation of war is economics. If you have half the economic resources you will lose so you must innovate to survive. For the US to be military greater then 2nd it must innovate. Failure to try to innovate should result in firing. Innovation attempts demanded and no penalty for failure.. Star Fleet must happen. The good SciFi features must come true and while we are still alive. Posted by: 3dc 2020-02-29 |
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