Eric Schmidt

It's really horrific, and it's to be avoided at all cost.

And then, right, for obvious reasons.

And the...

And I love all these people who say, well, the warmongering talk, be careful what you wish for because the other side gets a vote.

When I started working and trying to understand what Ukraine was doing, Russia was pushed back and they've come back with a very, very strong second and third round.

So the enemy gets a vote in this situation.

But to go on, the rough way in which war will evolve is first things will have to be very, very mobile and very much not in fixed places.

This takes out most of the military infrastructure that exists in the world.

Things like tanks, of which we're now building a whole bunch more, even stronger tanks here in America, don't make any sense in a world where a two-kilogram payload from a well-armed drone can destroy the tank.

It's called the kill ratio, and that drone costs retail $5,000, $4,000.

The American tank costs $30 million.

You can send an awful lot of those drones to destroy those tanks.

The likely evolution goes something like this.

So first, people learn that drones are like rifles and like artillery.

So it's more efficient to use drones now than to use mortars, grenades, artillery.

That's clear.

If you just look at the economics, economics in terms of cost or effectiveness as it's called.

The next thing that happens is that both sides develop drone capabilities, which is what you're seeing now, and each then becomes a war of drone against drone.

So you have drone against anti-drone.

And so then the shift moves to how do you detect the enemy drone and how do you destroy it before it destroys you.