Are you a service member or veteran? or armchair general?
I’m confident American arms makers are closely studying Ukrainian, Iranian and Chinese drones and working diligently to find a way to replicate their performance for 100x the cost.
Are you a service member or veteran? or armchair general?
Drones are overrated. People need to realize that the WWI reenactment by the two low skilled armies is NOT the be all, end all template for future war.
The drone attackers would get annihilated on a battlefield where the USAF had air supremacy/dominance.
Same for the pronouncements about the end of tanks. Uke retards sending out random tanks piecemeal in platoon sized groups with no support is a very different thing than the 1st Armored division and it’s supporting formations attacking you under USAF cover.
Drones have uses, but it’s amateur to pretend these DGI toys are the future of war.
It’s a social media post. By a gigantic hide-bound entity that is ever-increasing it’s levels of approval for such publications. I’m surprised they get anything posted in less than three years.
Those are always easily mocked. And should be.
“We’re going to lose the next war” because we can’t drop a grenade from a kids toy? We invented ‘droning’, including such fun-named weapons as a ‘Ginsu’ Hellfire missile —> YEARS ago...
Y’all need to back off the coffee pot earlier in the morning.
Palmer Luckey is catching them up ...
With drones, tanks are obsolete. Ships are next.
China and especially Russia ( with Ukrainian war experience) are clearly winning the drone war.
The largest manufacturing base in the world, China, is producing millions of drone types. Just pull up some video of Chinese massive drone swarm attacks.
The most frightening tactic is their building entry drones. Mother drones carry hundreds of smaller drones, when on target, specialized “ entry” drones blow holes in windows, walls, ceilings…the hundreds of other small drones enter en masse.
As China is now overtaking AI development, it is stated these fifty to hundred mini drones can be programmed to hunt down individuals, facilities brain centers, power supply, etc.
Sounds like a sci- fi scenario, and China leads the way.
BlahblahblahAmericaSucksBlahBlahBlah ...
They were in pretty sad shape in 1939, but we ramped up quickly.
While Ukraine/Russia has seen increase usage the first real usage of drones was during the Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan skirmish (2020 I think?)
I’m sure they’ve been looking into both offensive and defensive applications since then.
Now who came up with posting this and okayed it thinking it would be a good thing is a whole other issue.
That depends very much on the nature of that war - which we do have some control over. Iran has been a major drone supplier to Russia, so Iran certainly has had plenty of drones, and yet Iran's drones have barely dented Israel. This is due more to Israel's pro-active and extremely effective (if mostly rather conventional) "shoot the archer and the arrow maker" offense than it's actual drone defense. Neither Ukraine nor Russia has this advantage: For example, you don't see Russian fighter aircraft often over Ukrainian held ground, nor Ukrainian fighter aircraft over Russian held ground.
That said, and in agreement with your 2nd point, drones in the right situations CAN be very cost effective, and we have lessons to learn and APPLY, from the Ukies and the Russians. When appropriate, add tech of our own they don't yet have. AI-Smart, stealthy drones, IMO, have quite a future, and quite a scary future indeed if we don't keep up on all fronts.
There are always costs to killing.
There will always be Unintended Consequences.
Building cheap machines to kill people sounds easy.
But, you are killing people and that is never cheap or easy.
This hysteria is derived from an opinion piece in some publication called “National Security Journal?”
C’mon.
Looks like to me EMPs could do a lot to disable drone armies and even human armies unless both are design to resist them. It only takes one well placed EMP to destroy most unprotected electronics.
Pretty sure these stories are hokum. I mean we were using drones to assassinate terrorists over a decade ago. We’ve been using them for battle field surveillance for longer. Now there’s all these stories “oh we’re behind the drone curve”. Of course I notice most of the articles specifically mention the Army. Like they’re deliberately not paying attention to the Air Force and CIA that we know have been using drones for a long time.