A speaker imagines thousands of rockets launching millions of cheap drones from U.S. bases to replace $13.5 billion aircraft carriers and piloted jets with AI-controlled swarms. The pitch: global surveillance and strike power for a fraction of the current trillion-dollar defense budget, though it's probably decades off.
Imagine if you had millions of drones and thousands of rockets that you could launch from hundreds of locations, both in the United States and, and at our allies. You wouldn't need that anymore. You wouldn't need a $13.5 billion aircraft carrier. You wouldn't need airplanes with pilots. You could literally put a million drones anywhere you needed them to do surveillance or, or what have you globally without having a trillion dollars a year of force projection. And maybe that's, maybe that's decades from now, but that's where it's headed. Rockets, AI, and drones. And what you're able to do with rockets, AI, and drones is going to exceed what you're going to be able to do with $100 million airplanes and $13 billion aircraft carriers and military bases you're operating all over the world.
