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Aktungbby · 08-06-24, 12:02 AM

..."beware of a hun in the sun" was the first aerial-combat $tealth, circa 1914...and improvements have been dabbled in ever since. Unfortunately 'wonder weapons' are expensive and rarely decisisive, as WWII proved. Numbers (ala the Sherman tank vs vaunted panzer)"have a cachet of their own". Control of the skys will be won with masses of aircraft, stealthy and otherwise. The next big engagement will be won with drones, massed artillary, cannon-fodder expendible masses, rape and pillage; just as WWI did and Ukraine is demonstrating now. I expect satellites in orbit will become a decisive factor as 'killer sats' create more space junk; and armed sats deliver payloads from on high incl. nukes...and that is literally "over the top"! As with all wars, there will be no real winners, only temporary victors.

08-06-24, 12:02 AM	#3
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,030 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Nuthin bad ever goes outta style ..."beware of a hun in the sun" was the first aerial-combat $tealth, circa 1914...and improvements have been dabbled in ever since. Unfortunately 'wonder weapons' are expensive and rarely decisisive, as WWII proved. Numbers (ala the Sherman tank vs vaunted panzer)"have a cachet of their own". Control of the skys will be won with masses of aircraft, stealthy and otherwise. The next big engagement will be won with drones, massed artillary, cannon-fodder expendible masses, rape and pillage; just as WWI did and Ukraine is demonstrating now. I expect satellites in orbit will become a decisive factor as 'killer sats' create more space junk; and armed sats deliver payloads from on high incl. nukes...and that is literally "over the top"! As with all wars, there will be no real winners, only temporary victors. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!