Posted on 06/11/2025 9:18:40 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
The air craft destroyed in Russia were deliberately parked in plain sight, and clustered close together, because of a nuclear weapon treaty signed by the USA and Russia.
The destroyed air craft are strategic bombers that can deliver nuclear weapons over long distances.
By treaty - USA and Russian strategic bombers must be plainly visible to spy satellites.
Portable EMP systems. Already available. No more drones.
Would have been figured out eventually better now than how the Russians are finding out in real time
War always brings out innovations, measures, counter measures, counter counter measures…..
Look at the tanks and aircraft that began WW2 and the ones a few short years later
And each false alarm burns out every electronic in every building in the town.
Oh and every airman’s car in the parking lot.
Do you use nukes to take out mosquitoes, too? Or shotguns to shoot flies in your house?
Maybe we should try something called a “hangar” and make a lot of them, including covering fuel tanks.
The way the small drones are used in Ukraine by both sides is that they attach a small warhead to it and just ram it into a target. But I agree it's rather a $1000 drone, those less expensive are cheap toys.
Drones are a big thing but in case of attacks on the rus bombers, the key thing is the Uke secret services were able to run a complex operation deep inside the enemy territory, the final phase could be implemented without drones, using anti-tank missiles, mortars made of construction pipes etc. Some dudes might even use civilian airplanes to crash them into buildings... Just like in case of standard terrorism, preventing such attacks is rather a matter of counter-intel methods.
Reminder we have seized ZERO Chinese owned farmland next to military bases or not. ZERO. But look on the bright side! Trump made a DEAL to let their spies continue to attend universities! Winning!!!
They are hand-held and directional. You point them at the incoming drone(s) and it powers down. Ukraine has some.
Makes sense. My thought, after watching the Ukrainian drone strike, was that it really shouldn’t be too hard to figure out a way to stop anything being remotely controlled dead in its tracks, at least at short range.
If something depends on radio/light/radar/etc. waves to function, it should be possible to make such waves useless.
Heck, that’s why radar detectors had to keep evolving. 😎
To make an EMP you need a nuclear explosion. I don’t think they are readily available, but I’m no weapons expert. Just a 12 gauge shotgun, a .22 rifle and a .357 Ruger. That’s all I need. Varmints beware!
They probably have/are!
They are not true EMP guns. They interfere with nav and command and control signals. They are defeated by the fiber optic fly by wire systems (the wire trails for miles).
But, yes, they absolutely nail a normal radio controlled drone.
“ By treaty - USA and Russian strategic bombers must be plainly visible to spy satellites.”
Absolutely false. Only deactivated aircraft are subject to this rule. Other airframes must merely be made available for inspection.
For example, all B2, B21 aircraft are hangared except when flying.
Chinese drones are probably already in this country by the hundreds, while Pentagon procurement officers are daydreaming about their retirement jobs with Boeing.
The B2s are in hardened shelters not accessible from the air. The B52s, however are sitting ducks. A swarm of cheap drones would wreck havoc on military and naval bases around the world.
Are what percentage of our critical weapons systems, and critical civilian infrastructure, are protected by robust, fully functional, anti-drone systems, 24-7, 365 days a year?
And don't say the answer is classified.
The answer is that no one on Free Republic knows that exact answer, but the ballpark answer is almost certainly the White House, and the Capitol Building, and probably a few other places, and almost nothing else.
A critical point, undermined only the fact that Putin suspended the Russian Federation's participation in that treaty years ago...
Of course, people almost always believe their own country is the better one. OTOH, the Russians haven't dumped any of their aircraft into the sea lately.
It is magical thinking to imagine that US airfields are not vulnerable to drones, or that US ships are not vulnerable to the same threats as Russian ones. And the US is far more dependent on its ships (and aircraft) for geopolitical power than Russia is, so the risks to the imperial Washington hegemony are far more serious.
For all the mockery of the Russian military the last few years by the losing side, it remains the losing side in its proxy war with Russia, despite spending far more money in Ukraine than the Russians have. At current rates US/NATO governments will collapse financially due to accumulating debt long before Russia does. That won't help with the western reliance on high-priced cutting edge military systems.
There is no treaty obligation that strategic bombers must be plainly visible.
Not sure why people keep repeating this. It’s been debunked here 100 times.
“A critical point, undermined only the fact that Putin suspended the Russian Federation’s participation in that treaty years ago...”
And neither SALT, nor START, required visibility from space.
That was just one of the ways we complied at pre-coordinated times. Mostly it was onsite inspection.
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