Imagine a flying machine-gun that can recognise faces – and pick its own targets. Or a new kind of computer chilled to the temperature of space and able to calculate in seconds what a supercomputer would take millennia to solve. Then suppose you could beam co-ordinates from a satellite to an army base using an unhackable encryption key, or send a swarm of undersea drones to lie in wait for a stealth submarine.
But some of the biggest and most brazen cyber attacks in history have come from Russia, such as the devastating NotPetya hack that unplugged Ukraine and crashed much of the world’s shipping; and the recent SolarWinds breach that made it into the upper echelons of most Western governments, including the US and Australia.; nor does it have the huge arsenal of digital weapons hoarded by America’s spy agencies and Cyber Command.
While the US brings much of the technological heft to this enhanced defence partnership , Webb says that in AI and quantum technology Australia is already a research leader in its own right. “We’re not coming with our hands empty; we’re coming with something to put on the table.”In 2020, an Iranian nuclear scientist was gunned down.
There are also “little boat drones, about the size of a sailing dinghy” in development that are solar-powered and ideal for surveillance, Hellyer says. “They can just noodle around at three or four kilometres an hour forever” – and tow sonar behind them. “Instead of having your $3 billion frigate out there looking for submarines, you can have a very cheap fleet.
Google claimed its quantum computer cracked quantum supremacy in 2019, solving a problem other computers would need centuries to solve. That’s disputed by IBM and others, but scientists say there’s proof of concept now.The future of war is closely entangled with advancing computer power. But there are limits to even the sprawling supercomputers housed in universities today.
Still, while we won’t have a quantum chip in our phones any time soon , Simmons expects to see quantum computers solving real-world problems in the next five to 10 years. “And with the amount of investment that’s been pouring into the field lately it could even be earlier.”
Sherryn_G New frontiers of war. Neither missiles nor submarines will help us in the war we are waging against climate change
Sherryn_G And propaganda stirring unrest through conspiracy theories
Sherryn_G This is what concerns Australians so much.. The subs are just the thin edge of a very dangerous wedge..
Sherryn_G Since UK and the United States can not abide by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, why must China and Russia abide by it? Since Australia can obtain nuclear submarines, so can countries such as Iran and North Korea. Once Pandora's box is opened, it is difficult to close.
Sherryn_G It means PublicAusterityMilitaryKeynesianism
Sherryn_G They don't want you to look too closely at the details. It was all a distraction from Morrison's vaccine failures, and a military spend sugar-hit before the election. Don't forget!
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