What I don't understand has been vexing me for quite awhile. The increases in our weapons lethality, in terms of killing more with less as function of the advances in military technology is the very point,purposes of these new applications, new thinking in death delivery systems.
So, we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars on R & D to increase our ability to overwhelm the enemy on the order of magnitude of exponential killing capacity. Why are our enemies keeping pace with the capability in the technology we have to otherwise effectively render them militarily obsolete? Why, how is it that we are not destroying them in the same ratio as that of the army of the future battling the Huns? (Okay, not quite but you get my point.)
1 posted on
05/17/2014 3:46:03 PM PDT by
lbryce
To: lbryce
Why, how is it that we are not destroying them in the same ratio as that of the army of the future battling the Huns? I'd say the rules of engagement. We are no longer trying to win wars, we are attacking people to make them like us.
To: lbryce; null and void; Nachum
Because they idea isn’t to win a war, it’s to get the money into the defense department/lobbyist pipeline and wallets.
Make no mistake, soon these will be used against US.
By the authorities. And by each other once the technology filters down to civilians. The era of the gun is shortlived now. Soon the 2nd amendment will be irrelevant, even for the purposes of self defense.
To: lbryce
I bet I cannot legally own one.
Bet we can get the plans online.
The cat is out of the bag.
5 posted on
05/17/2014 4:12:32 PM PDT by
hadaclueonce
(Because Brawndo's got electrolytes. Because Ethanol has Big Corn Lobby)
To: lbryce
Because they are saving the good stuff to be used on the homeland terrorists
7 posted on
05/17/2014 4:20:15 PM PDT by
winodog
To: lbryce
Right. If drones become annoying look for otherwise harmless microwave “guns” that will fry their itty, bitty brains to become available.
8 posted on
05/17/2014 4:24:50 PM PDT by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
To: lbryce
Eventually it will come down to the hunter/killer
drones used in the movie Dune. small as a bird, small
as a spider. It’s not a happy thought.
9 posted on
05/17/2014 4:27:05 PM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: lbryce
Whatever happens, we have got the
Maxim gun ultra-lethal drone, and they have not.
But according to the article, they'll soon be getting the low-tech drone.
11 posted on
05/17/2014 4:56:49 PM PDT by
MUDDOG
To: lbryce
Wait until they have face recognition on drones, matched with voter ID, and another Obama is in charge.
14 posted on
05/17/2014 5:29:47 PM PDT by
ansel12
((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
To: lbryce; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; ...
22 posted on
05/17/2014 7:51:40 PM PDT by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: lbryce
23 posted on
05/18/2014 6:18:15 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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