Inside Anduril's Bolt-M Kamikaze Drone Program(www.twz.com)

4 pointsby breve6 hours ago2 comments

golem146 hours ago
Not a military wonk, but it’s not entirely clear where these will be useful. This will probably be super useful in Ukraine, where U.S. troops have a solid foothold via NATO allies. But elsewhere, you need to have a solid base, which you may not have, for instance defending Taiwan during an invasion. Also, 750 units produced per months is probably dwarfed by production in Russia or China.
But still, these look impressive and scary.
- bigyabaian hour ago
  The USMC is a largely expeditionary force that has to work without much (or any) fire support/big artillery. Their gear has to be tailored for lightweight, mobile and high speed operations; drones make a good fit for this work.
  Not sure if these would do well in Ukraine, or scale to larger forces in the first place. Anduril's reputation abroad is pretty low and not much better at home.
bigyabai6 hours ago
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  > the Lattice software, there were reports that there were some cybersecurity issues with it.
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> DL: [...] As I said, things change: software changes, intrusion options change, even servers change. All of those are vulnerabilities, and you really need to look at the full end-to-end stack.
I assume he's not a software guy by trade, that's not a very reassuring response. America is in the middle of Salt Typhoon, robust security should not be taken for granted.