Posted on 10/27/2025 7:57:16 PM PDT by Red Badger
Shield AI's X-BAT designed to counter China's strategy of destroying American aircraft before they leave the ground
Analysts say China has developed a chilling strategy for fighting a war with the United States: destroy America’s fighter jets before they ever leave the ground.
In nearly every modern conflict, disabling enemy aircraft on the ground has been the first move. When Israel struck Iranian nuclear sites earlier this year, it began by destroying Iranian runways — grounding Tehran’s air force before it could take off. Russia and Ukraine have done the same throughout their ongoing war, targeting airfields to cripple enemy aircraft. And when India clashed with Pakistan, the opening salvos hit Pakistani air bases.
Beijing has taken that lesson to heart. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has spent years building an arsenal of long-range precision missiles — including "carrier killers" like the DF-21D and DF-26 — capable of destroying U.S. aircraft carriers and striking American airfields across the Pacific. The goal: keep U.S. air power out of range before it can even launch.
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AVIATION PING!...................
Explain what your posted pics are?
Shield AI’s X-BAT AUTONOMOUS DRONE..................
America’s Bat Man....
When he was a boy. A “where are they now” feature of FR.
Good thing our Space Force is just tracking satellites, weather and stuff...(heh heh heh).
Why show our enemy this?
Hivemind....they say for now it will ask humans for permission to kill. Skynet cannot be stopped judgment day is inevitable. Yeah we saw this done 4 different ways every time skynet adapts and moves on.
They have to be using rockets to boost it off the ground or some super afterburner engines to thrust straight up.
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