Russia could crush Ukraine like a cockroach.
Do not mistake restraint for weakness.
IMHO, it’s important for the defenses to be as cheap or cheaper than the incoming drone/missile. In other words, for some types of enemy drones, it may be best to go back to a flak style defense.
Don’t care about them, but the takeaway for me is to store all planes in a hanger.
Don’t even have to be that strong, just to keep a light drone away from plane.
I know Dyess and our good bombers like B2 and B21 are kept in hangers routinely, except when rolling down the runway to keep them out of the dust and sun.
It’s a good thing that Biden’s (mal)administration kept a nice tight lid on the border, and certainly didn’t let in tens of thousands of military-aged men from all over the world, so there’s no way that anything like this could happen on US soil.
I was just reading how trucking in parts of Russia has come to a halt because every truck is being stopped and searched.
The amount of manpower being expended must be huge.
The cost of this attack is going to be much more than the lost assets.
The big thing was having permeable borders. The Ukrainians were able to get the drones on trucks deep into Russian territory before launching them. If you look at the Russian border, it’s gigantic, and there are probably many weak points that an enemy could penetrate.
Here in the US, it would not be so easy for China to sneak in drones. Using shipping containers would be possible, but very risky unless they had help inside the US. But there’s no way to drive a truck from China to California.
S/o is the next war going to be a drone war? Of course.
I wonder why the Chinese have been buying up land next to our military bases?
The lesson has always been that the silicon chip has changed everything. Naval surface combatants, land armored vehicles. helicopters over battlefields, and many fixed wing aircraft are obsolete death traps. Drones are just a segment of the surveillance and offensive capabilities that silicon chips and AI that have made battlefield lethal and fixed positions unsustainable. Many brave young soldiers from many nations will die before their battleship admirals and cavalry generals comprehend fully the new realities.
“countries like China or even terrorist groups might try to replicate this in attacks on the US military or on other countries”
Good point. I hope our government is paying attention.
Can anyone here think of another weapon or method of warfare that has profoundly changed he way we think about defenses and offenses more than the drone now, besides nukes?
Maybe the horse and then the internal combustion engine? Gunpowder?
How come we don’t see germ warfare used much? I would think it would be a natural poor-mans weapon of somewhat mass destruction? Or HAS it been used modestly and we just didn’t realize it for what it was? Was science capable of creating and releasing the Spanish Flu in 1918?
18 months of planning for this?
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Actual count is 3 big bears destroyed and a couple more damaged, which is actually a strong result for Ukraine. Unfortunately these types of accounts lack perspective on what constitutes a successful strike and have to pretend that half the fleet was wiped out.
11:30 AM · Jun 1, 2025
Putin is closer to giving the order to crush Kiev like a grape.
First thing they should do is build hangers for each of our nuclear capable bombers. B2s have their own rapid set up hanger, make them for the Buff and B1. YESTERDAY....then you can build up the anti-UAS stuff around the hangers, but right now, sitting on a tarmac is a NO GO. Hell, I’m surprised the anti-nuclear fanatics haven’t tried this yet.
What Ukraine did to Russia with trucks, Russia, China or Iran could do to us with ship containers.