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‘Attritable Assets’

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4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Meet the Manta Ray: it’s unmanned, it’s huge, and it can remain on station for months at depths no manned submersible could ever hope to achieve. Meanwhile, in the air, multiple ‘loyal wingman’ drones accompany manned stealth fighters and are put into harm’s way in place of an irreplaceable human life. This new generation of autonomous, unmanned vehicles occupies the bleeding edge of the next Revolution in Military Affairs. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0

Well, it's new, it's cool, and it's big. It's really big. It's damn near the size of the flying

0:05.1

sub from voyage to the bottom of the sea. Ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you the

0:08.5

Manta ray and a much bigger story than that. Hi, everybody. I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Green and

0:12.7

Scott Ott. And guys, this is going to take a little bit of a setup because there's a term I

0:16.0

heard that I think is going to be something we're going to be hearing a lot more of, and certainly seems to be the way we're heading as a nation in terms of our own defense.

0:24.1

We all remember when the Ukraine War started, and I'm sure we did a show,

0:28.2

I remember doing a show on the idea that a off-the-shelf drone could fly over a multi-million

0:34.1

dollar tank, drop essentially a grenade down the hatch and take that tank out.

0:38.7

You know, it's a multimillion-dollar tank.

0:40.7

You take it out with a $200 drone.

0:42.9

That changed warfare.

0:44.5

And what I've been seeing lately is just much more disturbing, really.

0:49.4

But essentially now, the situation in Ukraine is with the line stabilized.

0:53.9

It has turned into a war where

0:55.8

drones are essentially guided hand grenades, where drone attacks will go after individual

1:03.1

soldiers and drop two, sometimes three grenades on one person just to kill that soldier.

1:08.8

I bring this up because this idea of drones and unmanned vehicles

1:14.6

is certainly the way things are going to be going. So Manta Ray, as you saw from the thumbnail there,

1:20.3

is an autonomous vehicle. And it's changing the way we look at warfare. The term I was referring to

1:26.1

is attritable assets.

1:29.0

So let's just talk about that for a second.

1:30.7

Steve, let's start with you.

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