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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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2019-12-29
In which the blogger explains in great detail why drones are not actually all that. The phrase the new shizznit when it comes to warfare is used.
[Racontuer Report] Aerial drones are great at detecting people. In a barren desert. Or above the Arctic Circle.
In triple canopy jungle, bayou swamp, or northern hardwood forest, their detection capabilities are less than that of a good bassett hound. And they’re not particularly difficult to kill, defeat, or degrade. Starting with shooting the operator.

If 40 Afghan jihadis had stormed the relatively pussified base defenses in Tonopah NV one day, and rampaged through the drone trailers, killing everyone in sight and blowing up the control trailers, drone warfare in A-stan would have ground to a screeching halt, stayed that way for months, and the Air Farce would have started a crash program to steal Army Rangers by the tens of thousands as base defense cops in 30 states of the U.S.
Posted by:M. Murcek

#5  Where did the "40 Taliban" notion come from?
Sounds... biblical.
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-29 20:43  

#4  Tonopah was the scene of much of our nuclear weapons testing from the 1940s through about 1970. There are still plenty of "hot" areas. Just let it be known that anyone attacking Tonopah would end up being staked to the center of one of those areas in their birthday suits (regardless of season) for 90 days, and there won't be many people willing to attack.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2019-12-29 20:27  

#3  Hawthorne Ammo Base is nearby....
Posted by: Frank G   2019-12-29 16:39  

#2  If 40 Afghan jihadis had stormed the relatively pussified base defenses in Tonopah NV one day,

...I will only say that the lad is making one hell of an assumption, and leave it at that.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-12-29 14:30  

#1  Not to mention, in a warfare not against third Worlders, somebody will figure a way to disrupt communication between drone and operator.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-12-29 03:51  

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