I sure don't want to be a tank commander

https://youtu.be/vVeXWKzjuXE

nuthin really goes outta style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDXxsZ_eIBE starting with the Soviet Russian concept: "numbers have a cachet of their own...

You'd think that one of those tank commanders would have looked up and noticed that something amiss with that huge grid of missile carrying drones floating just overhead.

Yeah, but what's he going to do about it? :)



Drone Striking World Trade Center Is A Wake-Up Call

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidha...e-up-call/amp/

It gets even better. Technology for drones. Becomes modular more and more. Anybody, any state or organisaiton, can assemble them. The construction does not allow to identify the "sender". Such drones cna be used by EVERYBODY. EVERYWHERE. Against EVERYBODY. AT ANY TIME. And nobody will and cna be hekd acocutbale for any such attack.

The whole concept of "war" is in a revolutionary revision currently.

And then the next thing. Autonomous swarm drones. AI.

Interested customers? States. Criminal organisations. Organised crime. Terrorists. Religious nutheads. Professional assassins. Angry citizens. Ordinary people wanting to try something a lil' different for a change.

It becomes modular, and by that: anonymous. Mass-produced. Cheap. Small. Affordable. Easy to operate. Self-explanatory, almost.

Wars do not become less but more likely. Because the starters of wars will not be caught.

Legal rules and treaties and international conventions do nothign to prevent this. Its like the hope to prevent crime by declaring crime illegal. Absurd.


The biggest issue nin all this is that the modular natur eof near-future systems will allow total anonymity. That reduces the inhibition to use such weapons by absolutely frightening degrees.

One would imagine that they could launch their own counterstrike drones, but I'd bet that array would be very susceptible to good old fashioned air-bursting anti-aircraft fire.

Heck a stiff breeze might work too!

The day you jump forward for two seconds to pick a parking lot before another car gets it and you then see the other driver grinning while his car's trunk opens up, you know you're in trouble.

Right. Lots less energy to keep one light scout drone flying and keep the heavy ordinance on the ground not expending fuel as long as possible.

But I figure that by the time such an array is ever deployed that armored column would have its own armada of combat and scouting drones flying out ahead and protecting their flanks.

That array would work well against rebels and civilians as an area denial system though.

Yeah, tanks probably would have to call in anti-drone drones... messy!:k_confused:

What would really be "salt in the wound" would be if, as the tank commander looked skyward, and just before the drones attacked, they flew into a formation spelling out:


"YOU ARE SO SCREWED"...




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Iraqi prime minister survives drone attack
https://thehill.com/policy/internati...-officials-say

The new suicide bomber is a drone.

Going to be tough to defend against these; all I wanna know, will it have a tiny drone periscope?? :haha:

The Stealthy Sailboat-Submarine Drone the U.S. Navy Is Using Near Iran

That is the future.

With a top speed of just 5 knots it's going to have to be super stealthy.

Isn't that solar "sail" mast, when being erected, much bigger than a periscope and so wouldn't it be prone to being detected by radar?