@Snappy's comment on 'How long before drone swarms are legit in the US military and other similar questions.'

First vids of active testing of drone swarms that I am aware of were from 2017. https://youtube.com/watch?v=DjUdVxJH6yI . It's been five years since then. They are now capable of even avoiding crashes in dense forests. . One month old video. In some of the combat videos from Ukraine there are one or two videos of individual Ukrainian drones looking for and dropping grenades on individual troops. So drones can already be used to hunt individuals. Taking all these factors into account I would assume we are at most another 5 years away from common use of drones in US military application. i.e. Every squad or unit gets one drone each.

In a similar vein how long before military squads have transportation robots or additional robot troops. The LS3 robot was tested but the project got shelved by 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legged_Squad_Support_System . Was there any project after that which is still viable to fill a similar role or have they given up on robot animal equivalents for military usage? The humanoid robots got stuck at the ad level as far as I am aware. Drones will likely fill that niche.

US soldier exosuit developments have made genuine advancements over the years and I can bet my right nut that they have active exosuit usage for their specialized troops, off the record. I believe this because in Japan industrial workers were already using exosuits by 2017.

In a similar vein I think the bio mechanical insect project likely succeeded but had to be shelved because of the level of biodiversity loss around human habitations made them unviable. They instead filled that niche at government level with mandatory chips for dogs.

In addition, fun fact, the F 35B jet can vertically takeoff. The F35 series of jets have been active since 2006. So we already had this sci fi shit developed 16 years ago.

Night vision is already as good as science fiction grade, able to give you vision as clear as the day.

So after sharing all these links i come to my primary point, what else do you think is going to be the big new future warfare upgrade in the next one or two decades and how long is the stuff that's in prototype mode right now take to come out. The more specifics with links the better.