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2024-08-11 Science & Technology

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Posted by badanov 2024-08-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 A study should already have been completed that made a total evaluation of the service academies and the personnel needs over the next twenty years. The day of the piloted plane is over. As is the aircraft carrier. New thought must be given to submarines, including the use of them in transport. As for the Marines and Army, how will robots supplant boots on the ground?

Posted by Sligum Hupomoling9524 2024-08-11 07:25|| 2024-08-11 07:25|| Front Page Top

#2 All of the above is based on certain assumptions of national sovereignty and shelf-life. Tomorrow and next month may be relevant. Beyond that......

Posted by Besoeker 2024-08-11 07:52|| 2024-08-11 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 With regard to low cost war fighting drones, the defense industries will drag their feet every step, because they don't want low cost anything.
If it ain't got a big markup, they're not interested.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-08-11 08:36|| 2024-08-11 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Game changer weapons exist only in computer games.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-11 11:31|| 2024-08-11 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 Like drones? You moron.

Posted by Sligum Hupomoling9524 2024-08-11 16:07|| 2024-08-11 16:07|| Front Page Top

#6 ^I bow to superior knowledge.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-11 16:52|| 2024-08-11 16:52|| Front Page Top

#7 It just unbalances the arrangement in force structure. Up till now most countries have relied upon air superiority or air supremacy at the expense of alternative air defense systems. Now force structure and asset integration will shift to more assets in AD to counter drones. "If it flies, it dies" Identification, Friend or Foe systems also are included in that.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-11 20:40|| 2024-08-11 20:40|| Front Page Top

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