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The US Air Force wants $5.8 billion to build 1,000 AI-driven unmanned combat aircraft, possibly more, as part of its next generation air dominance initiative (www.businessinsider.com)

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The US Air Force wants $5.8 billion to build 1,000 AI-driven unmanned combat aircraft, possibly more, as part of its next generation air dominance initiative::The unmanned aircraft are ideal for suicide missions, the Air Force says. Human rights advocates call the autonomous lethal weapons "slaughterbots."

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[-] nuke@yah.lol 34 points 1 year ago

The F35 costs about 80 million and they sell like hotcakes. Yes, 6 million is cheap.

[-] JoeClu@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Oh okay. I didn't realize that. Wow.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Every bolt and river has to have its entire history accounted for in case it fails

[-] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

F35A is now down to about $70 million/piece now, which further demonstrates the point of costs coming down with mass production I think.

It originally was more like $150 million.

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