Ukraine Mega-Drone Attack - Why Conventional Big-Mil is Obsolete
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I've written on this before, recently, and mostly
caught shit.
However the incredibly effective, cheap, attack where
little drones took out a fair chunk of the Russian
strategic bomber inventory - this is my point.
We love big stuff - giant ships and planes and tanks
and marching parades of soldiers. The problem is that
we are talking what are now large, slow, hyper-
expensive TARGETS. A few cheap-ass drones can weave
their way in and destroy this big slow stuff.
Russia was caught by surprise here, but it is unclear
whether they could have mounted a good defense even
if the were expecting it. Drones zip around at the
tree-line and proper mil-drones would be made to
be jam-resistant.
About a week earlier there was a good hit on a
Russian mil fuel depot in Crimea. There, they
DO expect drone attacks - yet were unable to
counter the threat ... it's kind of being
set upon by a swarm of killer bees.
China does still build big warships, but it
has also put a huge amount of gold into
building next-gen military drones of various
kinds, some reportedly with pretty good "AI",
good enough where you basically tell them
"Look here for enemy, ID enemy, KILL enemy"
and they can do it themselves from there.
Again, you can make dozens, or hundreds, of
such drones for the price of on fighter plane.
Consider them now to be a major 'force
multiplier' and the multiplier figure is
rapidly getting larger.
In this light, do we NEED more aircraft carriers -
or a lot more little semi-autonomous drone
carriers ? Do we NEED B-2/3/4/99 bombers, or
just long range cruise and hypersonics ?
Ukraine has just ruined Russian armor with
Hobby Lobby class buzzy drones because they
could zip in and hit the exact right points
on the tanks. Troops in bunkers ... drones
can zip right in the front door.
The British made a horrible paradigm mistake at
the start of WW-1 ... 19th century tactics
against 20th century weapons. This is where
the term "lost generation" came from - there
were fantastic slaughters.
Lets not make the same kind of paradigm mistake,
sticking to 20th century thinking to deal with
21st century opponents. Small, quick, MANY ...
the swarm of bees ... is how things are gonna
go down THIS century.
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