Ex-Google CEO Schmidt Urges US Army to Replace Tanks with Drones
- Cheap drones have transformed the battlefield, says Schmidt
- He predicts artillery, mortars will eventually be phased out
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Google’s former chief executive officer Eric Schmidt is urging the US military to replace its fleets of “useless” tanks with drones powered by artificial intelligence.
“I read somewhere that the US had thousands and thousands of tanks stored somewhere,” he told the Future Investment Initiative in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. “Give them away. Buy a drone instead.”