>>13726 There will eventually be fully autonomous reconnaissance drones, large ones loitering up much higher and of course smaller ones that can be deployed at grunt level that will end up fully mapping out and automatically updating a battlefield map. That battlefield map will be fed into the combat drones, which, also, will be automated. Some of the combat drones will simply be kamikaze drones, similar to the FPV racing drones we've seen in the Russo-Ukrainian war. Some of them will be much like the manually operated quad copters we see around the world today, that simply drop munitions directly onto other drones and infantry. There will also likely be marksman drones that can loiter miles away from a human, measure wind speed, trajectory, etc, perfectly and take long distance shots to take them out. Think about the furthest shot someone has made with a large caliber anti-material rifle like the Barret, there will be drones strapped with those taking shots from even further- up in the air from far away. All of these drones will be able to instantly communicate with one another- and some of them will just be trying to find targets and update the map for other drones. Of course you will also have drones that lay mines for other drones, drones that hunt other armored drones with anti-tank weapons. There will of course be, bigger drones that are more heavily armored that attempt to make assaults through different areas. There will be walkers for highly uneven terrain, like destroyed cities and mountainous regions- and tracked or wheeled for more flat areas. There will also always be aerial harassment drones everywhere. There will be drones that launch artillery at other drones from far away and of course human sized drones that may assist other drones. There will be drones that collect friendly and enemy drones to disassemble, melt down and reuse. Of course fighter drones like the NGAD wingmen that are currently being worked on.. the main thing with humans will probably be drone control centers and drone repair or manufacturing FOB's as well as drone logistics centers. Maybe some humans will work with drones, but I do think that the environment will be so ludicrously hazardous to human life that eventually we will learn that it is an effort in futility to send humans onto future battlefields. It will be like the invention of the machinegun, where we didn't learn our lesson until millions of soldiers lost their lives. You simply will not be able to compete with combined arms drone warfare once it really begins and becomes autonomous. All it takes is for the Chinese or Americans to get into a real peer to peer conflict and test out such a system to absolutely decimate an organized human force in short order and then everyone will be trying to field them as fast as possible.