The US launches Replicator drone program #drone #valkyrie #russiaukrainewar #military, MASA Milita

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks announced on August 28 to build thousands of expendable, autonomous systems across multiple domains within the next two years as part of a new initiative to better compete with China.

“Replicator will galvanize progress in the too-slow shift of U.S. military innovation to leverage platforms that are small, smart, cheap and many,” Hicks said.

Hicks said that China’s core advantage is mass — “more ships, more missiles, more people,” and that the United States’ best response is to innovate, rather than match that ship-for-ship and shot-for-shot.

On the Russian and Ukraine battlefield, although the precision-guided ammunition plays an important role, the costs are high but the West can support Ukraine who is very limited in inventory and production capacity. If you want to fight a high -intensity and long -term consumption of war, you need to have an advantage in quantity. This requires more arms dealers to join the supply chain instead of monopolizing production capacity by a few arms dealers.

Although the United States has technical advantages in high -end drones, there is no advantage in quantity, so there is a "replicator" plan to win with quantity.

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