The plasma-ion thrusters and plasma-jet engines can have virtually unlimited operational time. The problem with electric jet engines is that they must have electricity from somewhere.
There are two ways to make virtually unlimited operational time for aircraft. The first one is to use nuclear power.
And that kind of system is otherwise easy to make. But nuclear power technology is an extremely dangerous thing. A damaged nuclear reactor can deliver highly radioactive containment to a very large area. If that craft will drop. It can cause nuclear pollution in large areas.
There is the possibility to make solar-powered aircraft that use plasma jets or plasma ion thrusters. The idea is that the aircraft. Much like a U-2 spy plane would fly at high stratospheric attitudes. In those altitudes, long wings are necessary.
Lockheed U-2 "Dragon lady" (Redditt)
Those wings can be coverer by using solar panels. The thin air makes low friction. And it makes it possible that this system can fly at quite a fast speed. But solar-powered aircraft can also be hypersonic. Energy production can boost by using windmill turbo generators.
But another way is to make hypersonic aircraft that use plasma thrusters or plasma jet engines. The system bases the ability to make origami-type lightweight solar panels that can be pulled inside when the craft is not using them. The hypersonic aircraft can jump away from the atmosphere, open its solar panels. When the batteries are loaded that craft can drop back into the atmosphere.
While traveling in the atmosphere, the aircraft can use a windmill turbogenerator. For slowing the emptying of batteries.
The fact is that the solar-windmill generator combination can use along with remote loading systems. The remote loading system can shoot the aircraft by using radio rays. '
For loading the electric systems in the night time. The thing is that imagination is the limit in futuristic concepts. Energy production with green systems is a very interesting thing because there is always a risk of accidents.
New artificial intelligence can develop itself by using Darwinian style evolution. When we think about autonomous synthetic AI-controlled evolution we must remember that modern computing systems are much more powerful than ever before.
The new complicated AI-based algorithms can search things from the Internet. That allows them to develop themselves. And that thing can make those systems more powerful and more unpredictable than ever before.
The model of AI-controlled evolution is not quite new. Stanislaw Lem's Novel "Peace on Earth" is one of the darkest predictions about robotics. The theme of that book is that the data networks that are out of control will start to develop new types of systems that are not under nobody's control.
The novel is telling about a world where is peace. And the weapons are transported to the Moon. But there the systems that have artificial intelligence that can create the intelligent AI-controlled evolution that can create the systems that people cannot predict. And there is another thing that makes this novel very interesting. The thing is called "mixed reality". The "mixed reality" means the robots that are controlled through virtual reality or BCI (Brain-computer Interface). In that novel, those robots are part of everyday life.
Those robots can use for remote sex. Or the controllers can use those robots as remote bank robbers. The new remote-controlling systems make it possible to use remote-controlled robots for surgical operations. They are planned to use as rescue operators or remote-controlled commando squads. But when robots are coming more common. They might get in the hands of outlaws.
The AI-controlled machine evolution is possible to make by using existing technology. The combat systems are the easiest to use as an example for the products that are developed by using AI.
There are three parts to this system. The names for those systems are taken from the novel "Peace on Earth". But before we are going to think about the model of that system. We must understand that the artificial intelligence-based development system can create two things separately or together.
The AI can develop the physical system itself. Or it can develop the operations of the physical system. In that case, the system selects the most successful actions. In the case of combat drones, that thing can mean the longest operational time against the manned aircraft. Or it can develop them together. But the development system can consist of three different parts.
1) The super simulator. The system creates virtual aircraft. Or some other system for making the simulated combat against the virtual enemy.
2) The selective simulator. That simulator goes combat against that virtual system. If the super simulator loses the selective simulator will send the report to the super simulator that knows why its system loses. And then super simulator can make repairments for the product.
3) The "judge". The system would search which system handles the situation best. Then the "judge" will send the winning model to the selective simulator. Then the super simulator will start to develop a system that can win the last model. So the systems are playing ball with the products.
This system emulates human brains. And that thing makes it very effective especially if it uses quantum computers.
That makes this kind of system very effective. Quantum computers can run complicated and heavy artificial intelligence tools.
The super- and selective simulators are big brains. And the "judge" is the cerebellum. That system's purpose is to select the best of the products.
The system can collect data from systems. And see what is best in the business. And use that data for making an even better system.
The researchers are creating new and effective ways to control robots. And some of those methods are basing the cortex simulation. That means the user of the robots cannot make the difference of the robot's senses. Or the senses of the own body. Those systems can be the salvation. Or they can be the worst nightmare that mankind ever created.
Image 1) Image of what is believed to be a Chinese hypersonic aircraft. (CCTV screenshot)(https://eurasiantimes.com/china-determined-to-have-a-fleet-of-hypersonic-planes-by-2035/)
Nanotechnology is one of the most interesting things in aviation. The Chinese claim that they have hypersonic aircraft that are using plasma-ion thrusters. Plasma-ion thruster or electric jet engine is one of the most powerful engine types in the world. The idea of the system is that the air will ionize at the front of the engine.
And then the magnetic accelerator drives it through the engine. The heat stress is very high at hypersonic flight. Friction is a very big problem in the speed of Mach 8+. There is the possibility that the aircraft's core is covered with nanotechnical rolls. Those rolls can make friction lower. But they can also be used to collect energy for electric jet engines.
Synthetic dimensions and quantum technology can be far bigger steps for aviation than quantum technology.
Those technologies are making it possible to create the ultimate stealth system. The idea of this system is similar to the neutron bomb. When a neutron bomb explodes the radiation will impact neutrons that are sending wave movement. The wavelength of that radiation is the same as the diameter of the neutron. But also protons and electrons are sending similar radiation if they are stressed by using electromagnetic radiation.
The most futuristic spacecraft that was ever studied was the fusion-antimatter-powered system that looked like a saucer. There was the tokamak-type reactor around the edge of the saucer-shaped structure. And the radiation of that reactor was planned to use for creating antimatter. There was an image of that saucer in the book of inventions. But as you might know, technology was not at a high enough level at that time.
The fusion reactor can use for pushing the quantum fields away from the spacecraft. And that thing makes it possible to create the WARP bubble around the craft.
Another name for WARP-bubble is the synthetic dimension. There are two types of those bubbles.
One is the traditional WARP-bubble or electromagnetic vacuum. That removes the doppler effect. Or shorts the wave movement ahead of the object. There is no wave movement in that bubble.
Because there is no wave movement there is no Doppler effect. And nothing should limit the speed of the object.
Another is the electron or proton cloud that is stressed with radiation. That thing makes the synthetic dimension around the object that can cause time dilation inside it.
If we think the system is made by using graphene. That thing allows using the annihilation radiation to make the WARP bubble around that craft. But there is the possibility to deliver the antimatter around that craft. That thing makes the annihilation outside the structure that can rotate extremely fast. That fast-rotating structure can use for making the time dilation.
When the craft rotates near the speed of light in the WARP bubble. And then the bubble will be removed it causing the Cherenkov-effect. In that case, the outer edge of the craft moves a short time faster than the light.
If annihilation happens outside the spacecraft that effect pushes the structures inside. The annihilation radiation can use to make the synthetic dimensions around the spacecraft. That thing makes those systems more capable than any other system. When we are thinking about the case that the electron cloud is stressed by electromagnetic radiation.
That thing makes electrons send the same type of radiation with neutrons. All particles neutrons, protons, and electrons are sending radiation when they are facing radiation stress. And that radiation can make those objects invisible. Or it can cause time dilation inside that electron cloud. That means the spacecraft will surround by using a synthetic dimension that gives the pilot more time to react because the time moves slower in that "cube".
The newest models of robot insects are looking like water striders. The robot water striders can patrol on water and collect data from chemicals and things that happen near them. The new robot insects can go anywhere and that means they are effective tools for many missions from natural research to intelligence and recon missions.
The robot insects can use the electric eel's electric cells for making their electricity. The new type of android insects can look like normal bugs or spiders. But they can communicate even with the supercomputer centers by using the internet. When we are thinking the insect robots those systems can also be used as drone swarms.
They can communicate with satellites by using other drones as the data link. But even if some robot looks like an insect, it might not be like its model. The feet of the robot water strider can connect with the fly-looking bug. And those robots can slip into houses by using the smallest possible holes. If the energy production of those robots is made by using biological energy production.
They can eat normal nutrients. That thing allows those robots to operate deep inside buildings. Robot bugs can make chains and use the laser-communication for transmitting data. From inside to the robot that waits outside. Also, regular quadcopters can use biological energy production.
Could the story of "Moby Dick" come from the robot whale? I don't know, could a mechanic robot or "automaton" of the 19th century look like a trustable whale? But the mechanic computer could control even the large-size mechanical bodies.
The legend of "Moby Dick" the white whale caused an idea. That there could be roto sharks and robot whales patrolling at the sea. Those zombie sharks and whales can collect data from the seas. And they can be used to track submarines and collect data from underwater systems of ships.
The form of the android can be anything. The most copied forms are insects. But things like snakes, whales, and fishes can also be models for the androids. The animal-shaped androids can use to guard natural parks and hunt suspected hunters. The robot animals are multipurpose tools, that can make many things with the same form.
We always think that robot animals are small. But robots can have the form of large animals. There is the possibility that the sea is patrolling the whale-looking robots. That has rubber skin and a skeleton that can move like the body of a whale. That kind of idea might be very interesting. And robot animals are interesting tools for many purposes.
The ants and other swarm operating bugs are used as models for swarming robots. When we think of the independently operating drone swarms controlled by artificial intelligence. Those systems did not exist 10 years ago. Even the small-size quadcopters and other drones can operate as a swarm.
The nuclear-powered drone swarms can operate in the atmosphere of other planets. They can operate underwater conditions in the Marianna Trench. And the icy oceans in the Jupiter and Saturn icy moons. But they can also be new and powerful tools on the battlefields.
The thing that makes this thing possible is the network-based system called "distributed calculation". Developers created this system for making animations for computers. The idea is that the computers can share their capacity and resources with other computers.
The network-based system allows making the drone swarm. That can connect data that their sensors are delivering. The drones can stay on their operational area as the plate. When one of those systems is seeing something interesting. It shares that data with all others.
Small-size quadcopters might have only one or two sensors like regular CCD, infrared, or some kind of radars. The quadcopter can also carry seismic or acoustic sensors. That means those drones can lay to the ground and feel the seismic oscillations.
Those systems can also eavesdrop on enemy speech. The quadcopter can also have chemical detectors that allow them to find the ammunition or fuel dump. The thing is that the large numbers of those swarming robots are replacing the quality.
It's possible that in the future. There are three types of aerial systems. Or actually, those systems already exist.
1) Simple, one mission drones
2) Multimission drones
3) Manned systems
Those systems are integrated as an entirety. The network-based systems allow sharing the information between components of the military systems. The aerial systems are also integrated to the part of the entirety where the sea and land troops are also participating in the network-based battlefields.
1) The simple, and cheap one mission drones. That is pulling missile fire away from the more complicated systems. Those drones can also be used as miniaturized killer robots. Those quadcopter-looking systems or loitering ammunition called "kamikaze drones" are the systems.
Those terrorists are using most probably. The problem with those systems is that they are thought of as cruise missiles that are making more curves than normal cruise missiles.
2) Multi-purpose drones can be remotely controlled systems. Or independent operating AI-driven systems. Those systems can use as remote-controlled or independently operating attack aircraft.
Or they can have the internal warhead. They can operate alone or with manned aircraft. The loyal wingman drone's mission is to pull the missile fire away from the manned aircraft or attack against missile stations.
The drones can also make the plate under their aircraft makes more difficult to shoot them down. The quadcopters can have infrared lights that give masks for stealth fighters.
And they can spray iron powder into the air making it difficult to see the stealth aircraft. That is behind those drones. The stealth fighter can make the strikes by using satellite-guided weapons.
3) The manned aircraft. The loyal wingmen drones can be used as "kamikaze drones" or remote-controlled auxiliary jet fighters. The controller of those drones can sit on the back seat of the stealth fighter. Those drones can share their data between the computers of the jet fighters.
But they can also be 1000 kilometers away in the command centers. That thing might not be very sportsmanlike. But also in the Spartan army, the idea was that if somebody attacked one Spartan, the another would hit that attacker to back by using the spear.
Social bugs like ants are giving data on how the system should operate as swarms. The swarming robots can close the route of the jet fighters. And the thing that makes them more powerful than regular sensors is that those quadcopters can fly in jet engines.
When we are thinking the technology behind those quadcopters is that the individual member of the drone swarms must not be versatile. The entirety is versatile because those quadcopters or other types of drones might have different types of sensors.
The drone swarms are complicated things. They can produce at the combat zone by using 3D printers and automatized manufacturing platforms. Those systems can detect things like missiles in seconds if they are in position. Drones can deliver from satellites and the thing is that those systems can assassinate individual persons.
In those systems, the image recognition system will locate the target. And the small drone will drop from the satellite. The heat core denies the burning of that system. The quadcopter can be equipped with a regular pistol that makes it a very suitable and dangerous system in the wrong hands.
Drones are effective in conflicts. They can make sudden attacks from the sky by using smart weapons. This thing makes them feared and brutal systems. But the defenders of the drone attacks are saying that the purpose of weapons is to fear enemies. Some people are saying that drones are easy to shoot down.
Or they are easy to affect. If we think that the drone that costs the same price as some car hits by a missile that price is over a million euros that thing can be acceptable. One of the purposes of drone swarms is to pull missile fire to them away from the complicated manned aircraft and drones.
But when we are thinking about the situation in Ukraine where are no swarming drones we must ask one interesting question. If drones are easy to destroy or jam.
Why don't the Russians destroy those drones? Why do they allow the Turkish-build drones to fly around their vehicles, and destroy them? That is one interesting thing to think about.
The biological batteries are suitable for power sources for androids.
Have you seen the movie "Aliens"?There is a human-looking android robot called "Bishop". That kind of robot can connect to the computers of the spacecraft. Or the computer center if we want to be less futuristic. That kind of man-looking robot can be the "contact person" between computers and humans. The "Bishop-unit" is similar to "Sophie". The AI-driven robot. That is interacting between supercomputers through the internet.
That means the computers are interacting through those "Bishop-units". And that thing means that quantum computers can communicate straight with humans by using those undercover models. Those man-looking robots could also make repairments for the computers.
That kind of robot can use a biological power source. Like the electric cells of electric eel for making their electricity. In that case. The system will eat the food to the artificial stomach. There are bacteria and the ability to transfer the food to nutrients for those cells that are creating power for the robot.
In some "Daedalus" type theoretical plans the craft will send to another star. With those "Bishop-units". In some visions, the futuristic interstellar spacecraft will use regular binary computers when it leaves the solar system. And in that journey, the man-looking robots will make quantum computers.
The idea is that the binary system is easier to control than a quantum computer. The quantum computer starts to run the AI when the craft is enough far away. And at the target, those "Bishop-units" would act as babysitters for the crew that is traveling in the form of hyper-cooled embryos that are cooled to zero kelvin degrees.
The number of those electric cells determines the power of electricity that they can deliver.
Biological batteries are one of the most exciting versions of the use of bioelectricity. There is a fish called an electric eel, that uses electric shocks as the defense and hunting. The cells that are creating over 600 volts of electricity. And that means those cells can use as biological batteries for nanomachines. But those cells they can use to create electricity also for the microchips and electric engines.
Cloned electric cells of electric eel can use in any kind of electric device. And biotechnology allows the creation of large masses of those cells. The thing is that number of those cells determines how powerful electricity the biological power source can create. If the electric cells of an electric eel, are connected to things like computers or robots. The only thing that the system needs is nutrients. Of course, the power product of those cells must stabilize.
Those cells that are creating electricity for that fish can use for parallel or serial connection. The system can use cloned electric cells and the electricity of those cells can store in a capacitor or battery. That means, even large-size systems can use by using electricity. That is created by biological batteries or cells that are creating electricity.
In the most interesting and futuristic models, the electric cells can use to create electricity for large-size robots. The cells would be in the chambers. And the robot needs nutrients for creating electricity for the robots and their computers. That thing makes it possible to create a human-looking robot that eats normal food.
There is one thing where the cells that are creating electricity can also use. That is SciFi-style spacecraft where the systems are getting electricity from the electric cells. The electric cells can give electricity for the ion engines as well as computers. The requirement is that the number of cells is high enough.
Soundwaves are carrying material. And that thing is not a very big surprise because sound waves are the movement of molecules. The thing is that there are also sound waves in the space. Objects like stars are sending material or gas impulses. And that means that molecular movement can observe by using radars.
And turn to the sound waves. The gas or other particles can inject into the outer layer of the space structures. But the soundwaves can use in fundamental 3D printing technologies.
But the fact is that the coherent sound waves can use in the new fundamental 3D printing tools. In that case, the plastic dust or small plastic particles can carry to a certain position by using coherent sound waves. That thing allows using the modified LRAD-systems for sending particles in long distances.
In that kind of 3D printing system, the particles are riding with soundwave or soundwave-laser ray combination. And that thing means that kind of system can be the next-generation 3D printing tool. The vaporized plastic, carbon fiber, or steamed metal. The system can use to create more complex and sensitive structures than ever before.
The soundwave-basing 3D printing system has one benefit. It must not make physical contact with the layer or object that prints. The soundwave can push and pull objects by creating changes in the pressure above the object.
That system doesn't require a vacuum to operate. So it can use in biological printing processes. The system can use to create nanotechnological microchips. And a new type of proteins. One thing that is important in protein structures is the form of protein.
The soundwave-based systems don't require contact with the chip's surface. That thing denies the deletion of programming of that chip.
Also, this kind of system where particles are traveling in the sound-wave tunnels can use to make the complicated protein base structures. Also, artificial DNA can create by using soundwaves. The difference between the soundwave and laser systems is that the soundwave can work underwater conditions. That allows operating single cells that are living.
