Posted on 07/22/2025 6:46:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
And an F-35 would not survive a CAS environment. Stealth means nothing against AAA guns. And despite what the zoomies say, CAS from high altitude with precision weapons is no substitute for actual CAS.
CAS from 20,000 feet works.... sometimes, but not always.
Well gosh... we don’t need tanks because drones kill them. We don’t need A-10s anymore because drones can supposedly go after them when they are on the ground.
I guess we can all just sit back and lets waves of drones fight each other! We learned this in a war between two backwards groups of idiots.
If the US military ran a combined arms war they way they do so well, you would not see drone operators so free to operate in the areas they do. We would get air supremacy and have machines prowling looking for drone crews within any sane distance.
And the Ukes send out three or four random tanks with no air cover, no arty, no clear objective... no support at all.
If the 1st Armored Division attacks you, it is not random tanks piecemeal. The demise of the tank based on this WWI re-enactment by amateurs will be proven very wrong.
That and the US Military is also testing man-portable and vehicle-mounted “EMP” (directed energy/electromagnetic pulse) defensive weapons that fry even the fiber optic connected ones. Also there are some really cool ‘smart bullets’ in test that can explode near (or impact if lucky) a drone and frag them. They are fired conventionally.
Saw both of the above in test before retiring.
The offense always has the advantage over the defense though, so you combine drones with standoff platforms and smart mortar/artillery rounds and you create real problems for the defenders. Fire AND MANEUVER become real important. Ya gotta control the order of battle.
They haven’t been on a modern battlefield.
And, they won’t be.
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