Some of the constraints imposed on fighter jets is life support and G-force limitations for the pilot. Removing the pilot and allowing an on-board computer handle things in the moment (e.g. dogfights) gives an unmanned jet the upper hand.
It's obviously a step toward completely automated war machines, but that's the justification for the "unmanned fighter jet"
A lot of companies in Japan have a heavy industries branch or similar. Yamaha has all kinds of verticals as they're happy to sell you a piano or a motorcycle (or both!)
It's not so much diversification, but the fact that many of them were zaibatsu, the only ones able to do anything other than farming. They just had a huuuuge head start.
Subaru used to be a part of Fuji Heavy Industries, who actually started out making aircraft. They've since been renamed to simply "Subaru Corporation", apparently.
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SGforce@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 23h
It's a "fighter"? Are we imagining drones dogfighting? What's it's main target?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 22h
Defense budgets.
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 16h
Some of the constraints imposed on fighter jets is life support and G-force limitations for the pilot. Removing the pilot and allowing an on-board computer handle things in the moment (e.g. dogfights) gives an unmanned jet the upper hand.
It's obviously a step toward completely automated war machines, but that's the justification for the "unmanned fighter jet"
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 22h
Wildberries.
BrickEater@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 11h
Maybe Amazon next?
saltesc@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 23h
Other drones
xylol@leminal.space · 2 pts · 21h
Alive things
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 29 pts · 20h
The A3-001 is from Saab, not Subaru.
https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2026/saab-showcases-full-scale-uncrewed-aircraft-concept
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1h
Wooo boy does this need to be top comment.
Good catch.
Grok translation everyone, as reliable as Elon Musk's stock valuations.
jrwperformance@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 23h
Got to replace the head gaskets every 10 flights.
unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social · 6 pts · 21h
Contrails lookin’ like someone’s hitting all the vapes
real_squids@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 20h
And if you push it too hard it will shoot a piston out the side
Mac@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 18h
That was the old Roos
The modern ones spin bearings from no oil due to oil pickups blocked with RTV
farmgineer@nord.pub · 7 pts · 22h
A lot of companies in Japan have a heavy industries branch or similar. Yamaha has all kinds of verticals as they're happy to sell you a piano or a motorcycle (or both!)
inari@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 21h
Major Japanese companies have insane levels of diversification
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 15h
It's not so much diversification, but the fact that many of them were zaibatsu, the only ones able to do anything other than farming. They just had a huuuuge head start.
aeiou@piefed.social · 6 pts · 19h
Mitsubishi and it's offshoots has made everything at one point or another. Paper, drugs, TVs, cars, tanks, planes, submarines...
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 19h
... one of the best fighter planes of World War II...
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 10h
wind turbines, too.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 3 pts · 17h
The term for it is 'conglomerate'
0ops@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 16h
Subaru used to be a part of Fuji Heavy Industries, who actually started out making aircraft. They've since been renamed to simply "Subaru Corporation", apparently.
kugel7c@feddit.org · 1 pts · 12h
https://youtu.be/4tYhl-8g8TU
SGforce@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 19h
Hitachi is the best example
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 23h
Also
miked@piefed.social · 1 pts · 18h
This made me giggle.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 20h
Now I'll know if the plane overhead is piloted by a lesbian! Nice!
OpenStars@discuss.online · 5 pts · 18h
Lesbian pilots of the world unite - who's with me!? 🤪