In a war with China, US forces could be overwhelmed by swarms of drones unless the military more aggressively invests in the systems needed to stop them, a new report warns. The report, released Wednesday by the Center for a New American Security, argues that while the Pentagon has long talked about the need for counter-drone technologies, it has failed to prioritize them at scale, risking leaving troops vulnerable in a high-end fight.
Beijing's engineers have reportedly designed a hypersonic aircraft carrier-essentially a large, super fast drone mothership that can deploy several more drones. It uses an variable oblique wing, a historic, experimental design that has one single wing that rotates depending on the aircraft's speed rather than fixed classical symmetrical wings in traditional planes. To laymen used to regular aircraft it may look bananas,