Former Google CEO-“Licensed Arms Dealer” Eric Schmidt believes Taiwan can take a page from the ongoing Ukraine War.
At the Milken Institute Global Conference on Tuesday, Schmidt said the Ukraine-Russia War was the beginning of how the wars had fought, as the countries were more dependent on the remote controlled drone to fight their battles.
Schmidt, now leading the space space, a rocket startup, said the recent conflict should push the US to re -imagine its assumptions around how Taiwan defends herself against a potential invasion of China.
“Do you think we will defend Taiwan with all our aircraft?” Schmidt said. “I will remind you that we do not have particularly good defenses against hypersonic missiles. No one is. It is a very difficult problem. And that aircraft Leo constellations for monitoring, “he added, which refers to satellite orbit satellites.
Schmidt said one way to prevent China's choice of led to an invasion of land against the neighboring country was the use of explosion of sea drones similar to those used by Ukraine against Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
Ukraine uses homemade, uncrewed multi-purpose surface vessels called Magura to prevent Russia's naval fleet, a major accomplishment considering Ukraine does not operate any warships in its Navy.
The Magura Sea drones have many operations, including monitoring and reconnection, but they are also used to take a helicopter and slam at a Russian military speed.
Schmidt said a company can build similar boats that can “sink even a few feet under water and then serve as the corresponding torpedo.”
“I'm not running a company in this space, but I'm going to build those boats, get the military to buy them, and then keep them not allowing them for a invasion of Taiwan's China land,” he said. “Remove one of their options. Easy.”
Schmidt had earlier said that drones are the future of war.
Forbes It was reported last year that tech investors secretly testing military drones guided by front lines in Ukraine.
“For thousands of years, we have the notion of, stereotypically, a man and a gun that fights someone else and a gun, with a horse or what you have,” he told the milken panel. “We are now destroying this connection forever, because war will be pursued on the Internet in one form or another.”
Schmidt's representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
