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shavenferret on 06 June 2025
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Ryuu96 said:
shavenferret said:

I bet that behind the scenes,that America's air force general are loosing their shit over the fact that drones can wreck havoc on their bases. The countermeasure aren't even that good. Short range missles? Won't work unless we are fighting a small nation that we can absolutely annihilate. Men with shotguns? Not enough. Bullet based air defense? This may be the best option and even then they won't work in a swarm. China would be able to level the playing field with drones coming from everywhere.

More than that, any country nowadays could "level the playing field" with drones now, an extremely cheap product that can be mass produced and has proven ability to destroy super expensive and high tech fighter jets, tanks, ships? And the ability to kill thousands of soldiers without even lifting a gun, it will change the entire field and power balance of the world.

I mean, sure, drones won't be enough to win a war, but they'd be enough to cause serious damage and make the aggressor think twice before invading. Take a small country with a small GDP, they would struggle to amass a large army, one which is technically advanced too, but imagine they now can amass an army of millions of cheap drones, millions of drones bombing the shit out of the aggressor country.

Ukraine already demonstrated their cheap naval drones can take out and push back a whole frigging Naval force, now they just demonstrated to all the worlds superpowers that their super powerful and expensive jets can also be blown to pieces by drones that cost less than $100k. Honestly, I bet this is why some of the bed wetting is happening too, because Ukraine showed what is possible.

Better start massively investing in electronic warfare, anti-drone technology.

Even EW isn't that great now.  All they need to do is combine fiber optic and AI tech to avoid being susceptible to this EW stuff.   Now that i think about it, drones offer a cheap and easy way to conduct terrorism.  We may see the Chechens use drones against their masters when they finally see how Russia is 100% weaksauce.