South Korea Goes All-In on Drones || July 9, 2026
The South Koreans are going all in on drone warfare, announcing that every soldier will be trained to operate drones. This is a relatively inexpensive way to offset the challenges facing South Korea.
South Korea has shown time and again that it can pivot on a dime. So, incorporating drones into its military strategy to remedy demographic decline is a natural progression. And since they already possess a large industrial base, producing these drones at scale in the coming years isn't a stretch. South Korea is also facing increased threats from North Korea and weakening U.S. security guarantees, so the case for drones is even stronger.
While the drone warfare of today will likely look far different in ten years, South Korea is well positioned to lead the next generation of military drone technology.
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Kim Jong Un doesn't look much like a shriveled up-raisin . . . perhaps because the rest of the populace is a sea of shriveled-up raisins
Matt Ferrell
You are correct Peter on the Korean's Tech advancements. I have two sets of solar panels. A rack of LG's made in Korea, and a rack of German designed Q-Cells which were made in Malaysia. The LG's have taken no significant degradation after four years, while the German Q-Cells have lost about 5% of their output due to UV degradation, which is normal for most solar panels. This speaks to me volumes of the quality of Korean craftsmanship and the advance state of development of their scientific research in advanced technology, like solar panel chemistry. The reason LG stopped making their wonderful solar panels was they just could not compete with the low cost, low quality crap coming out of other places. People buy what they can afford, which gives the cheaply made stuff an advantage. Years later folks will realize they should have gone for the high QL Korean stuff, which has much longer service life.
Please, Peter. It is not pronounced “dram”, it is “Dee-ram”
It was Dee-Ram for a long time. I think the youngsters are dramming now. Dee-Ram still makes more sense, descriptively.
why erode the quality of your argument with a very poor interpretation of the technical issues? just say “onboard AI get better because technology advances”
Average housewife here. Off the subject of everything, what is up with Trump administration saying that there are 4 types extra terrestrials here?! This is a real question my little brain has. Was it a distraction? And if so what kind of psychotic, ridiculous distraction is that ?
Well, the war he started seems to have made everyone forget about the Epstein files. Perhaps this is his attempt to get everyone to forget about his war.
Makes me wonder if we’ll see decoy ground targets to entice autonomous drones to strike them. Like the fake airfields in ww2
A couple of decades ago, South Korea developed machine gun turrets that fire automatically at any man-sized targets that it sees in the DMZ. What they have created since then has to be much lethal and scarier.
Hey 👋
The keyword is "dual use" technologies. Basically the tech we use for our everyday lives and weaponize it (and that includes AI). That seems to be the military doctrine shift around the world.
You change the popular game rules then let robots build drones. Let AI comb thru Ukrainian data to create the game rules. People will pay to train themselves on the warfare you want and need.
Sorry, please don’t use technical terms if you don’t know what you’re talking about. RAM (DRAM/SRAM) and flash memory (NAND) have nothing to do with any of it. Any sort of (semi)autonomous drone will have both, just like your computer has SSD/Flash/HD storage and RAM. So, either read up on how these things actually work, or simply stay at the birds view of it, and stick to the capabilities of the various drone types. But mixing false technical terminology/explanations with an otherwise meaningful analysis make everything look shoddy and incredible. 🤷🏻♂️
+1 here, no hate to Peter but he is completely off. The hard part is not the hardware, is training the AI models so they can actually do targeting decisions on the fly (while avoiding civilian targets or friendly fire)
No worries, everyone will have Nukes very soon. We'll all go MAD. Very interesting times we live in.
Certainly feels like we are standing at the edge. We will see if all those deterrence theorists got it right over the years.
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Hey 👋
Did some one say SK Hynix ADR?