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Are you looking forward to the big war with Iran?
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2024-01-11 at 11:32 PM UTC
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2024-01-11 at 11:53 PM UTC
Originally posted by DUSM Raylan Givens More like why the carrier fleets are out there. The US's utter and complete conventional military superiority probably guarantees they won't be using the nuke subs for any first strikes. And nobody is gonna nuke the US.
Hybrid balloon and hydrogen endurance drones are demonstrating pretty impressive ranges and payload capacities. Then there are the cardboard drones currently being used in Ukraine that are currently very successful in recon roles. In general drones are proving hard to deal with because they move so slow and low generally. There is an old incident called Palmdale where a runaway drone needed to be shot down and 2 Scorpions extended 208 missiles without scoring a single hit on it.
Airport drone countermeasures are mostly just radio jamming, GPS spoofing and radar and rf detectors, and then camera based optical detection with AI. They work great against consumer tier drones. However thinking about cheap swarms of drone balloons or similar by a nation state attacking military installations, the US would need more active defenses and significant advances in detection technologies because currently it is even hard to parse through the immense amount of space junk entering the atmosphere.
You're right that these drones are currently no more of a threat in scale than an IED but them being airborne, relatively hard to take down and numerous could be a potent combination tactically.
That's where internal political fragmentation comes into play: the power to influence how resources are acquired and allocated for the MIC is the biggest pot of gold in America and that process inherently plays out slow. That's fine and ultimately not relevant to performance when the war is happening on the other side of the world. Not so if we are considering attacks upon US soil.
the carrier fleets are out there to provide targets for iran to shoot to give the US justification to attack them. SSBNs arent designed for first-strike.
no hydrogen-based balloon will ever be used in combat or warfare. drones are only hard to deal with when adequate countermeasures arent provided by the upper echelons, otherwise they are easily controllable. jesus fuck...youre referencing a 70 year old incident that has literally zero relation to current times or modern drones.
there are drone countermeasures that work just fine. again...note how i mentioned drones are only hard to deal with when adequate countermeasures arent provided by the upper echelons. the drones spying on US ships are 'allowed' to remain. the drones spying on german bases are allowed to remain because the german upper echelon wont provide the bases with counter-drone measures.
currently drones are just another munition that countermeasures need to be designed or deployed for...theyre not T3000 apocalypse machines -
2024-01-12 at 12:06 AM UTC
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2024-01-12 at 2:08 AM UTC
Rishi Sunak's statement.
"de royal airforce did blow dose arabs up, so they did.
they disrepected our poor jedi allies so they did.
england is proper tolerant and multicultural so it is
we'll stab you if you disagree" -
2024-01-12 at 2:16 AM UTCnow theyre going to spam the saudi oil fields with drones, rockets, and missiles
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2024-01-12 at 4:49 AM UTC
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2024-01-12 at 4:52 AM UTC
Originally posted by infinityshock now theyre going to spam the saudi oil fields with drones, rockets, and missiles
What good would that do when Saudi Arabia can fund the reconstruction of them, not mentioning the potential aid that they would receive from it's allies.
There are so many targets to hit in this scenario that the Houthis might run out of rockets before they finish the job, or get clobbered by Saudi and US forces.
Better target would be to take out their gas lines. Keep the Saudis pumping oil while their neighbors transition to exporting more natural gas. -
2024-01-12 at 5:32 AM UTCHodeidah, Saada, and Dhamar are all eating shit.
claims that warships have been damaged, no media yet. US is denying it, there are a few photos and videos but they all look like they're way too close to coast to be attacks on western vessels so they're probably old or misfires or something.
Yemen states that missiles were launched from ships, submarines and aircraft but no specifics.
looks like this was prompted by the ship Iran seized yesterday - the IRGC jacked a fully-laden oil tanker... specifically because it was an Iranian tanker that had been hijacked by the US last year for violating the unilateral oil embargo.
claims of Yemen sinking a US ship appear to be false
meant to post this hours ago but thanks scron for flood control you faggot -
2024-01-12 at 7:31 AM UTC
Originally posted by infinityshock there are drone countermeasures that work just fine. again…note how i mentioned drones are only hard to deal with when adequate countermeasures arent provided by the upper echelons. the drones spying on US ships are 'allowed' to remain. the drones spying on german bases are allowed to remain because the german upper echelon wont provide the bases with counter-drone measures.
r u sure ?
the world have changed while your trappednin your gimp box.
the US is no longer the super-robocop it used to be back in the 80s.
now, in this year of you're lord 2024 the US is nothing more than a washout, senile stereotypical MallCop that looks on helplessly while shouting stern suggestions as Diversity ransacked shopping establishments.
i could make a meme but i am too lazy but you get the idea. -
2024-01-12 at 7:33 AM UTC
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2024-01-12 at 10:10 AM UTC
Originally posted by Kingoffrogs What good would that do when Saudi Arabia can fund the reconstruction of them, not mentioning the potential aid that they would receive from it's allies.
There are so many targets to hit in this scenario that the Houthis might run out of rockets before they finish the job, or get clobbered by Saudi and US forces.
Better target would be to take out their gas lines. Keep the Saudis pumping oil while their neighbors transition to exporting more natural gas.
That's not how it works. Without oil saudi is a pre-technology nomadic herder civilization. Those oil facilities are too complicated to repair quickly and damage would impair the planetary oil prices...hence, the world economy.
They'll hit whatever targets the iranians tell them to hit...the easiest and most harmful to everyoneThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-01-12 at 10:11 AM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny r u sure ?
the world have changed while your trappednin your gimp box.
the US is no longer the super-robocop it used to be back in the 80s.
now, in this year of you're lord 2024 the US is nothing more than a washout, senile stereotypical MallCop that looks on helplessly while shouting stern suggestions as Diversity ransacked shopping establishments.
i could make a meme but i am too lazy but you get the idea.
You don't have to call me 'lord'
'Daddy' will suffice -
2024-01-12 at 10:55 AM UTC
major strike locations.
now what? Yemen's been bombed for like a decade straight, they don't give a fuck and this won't even slow them down.
more strikes? then what?
you need boots on the ground to control territory. -
2024-01-12 at 10:57 AM UTC
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2024-01-12 at 11:03 AM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-01-12 at 2:11 PM UTC
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2024-01-12 at 2:12 PM UTC
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2024-01-12 at 2:52 PM UTC
Originally posted by ner vegas
major strike locations.
now what? Yemen's been bombed for like a decade straight, they don't give a fuck and this won't even slow them down.
more strikes? then what?
you need boots on the ground to control territory.
Without BDA or actual reports of effects (or lack thereof) there's no way to tell if the mohammedians are laughing at the stoopit americans or crying to aloha wackbar -
2024-01-12 at 2:53 PM UTC
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2024-01-12 at 3:02 PM UTC
