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0 pointsjacquesm1mo ago0 comments

I've seen the range of drones that is available and they are very impressive, the variety is precisely what makes them so powerful: you can adapt mix and match to whatever mission profile you have in mind and there most likely will be something that you can use unmodified. And if the task requires it modifications can be done on very short notice.

An F-35 is of course going to absolutely outclass any drone. But a hundred million (roughly) spent on drones is going to do more damage than that F-35 and is going to be more versatile.

The second that F-35 lands it is going to be at risk from a (low cost) drone attack. And some aicraft aren't even safe in the sky anymore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACjCP-Dt3GY

Speaking of Aircraft Carriers, how is the Ford doing?

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XorNot1mo ago

Mix and match how? Your entire one-way arsenal is sitting in cargo containers off the coast of an enemy nation by definition within drone range.

At this point you've built a very slow, very short ranged undefended arsenal ship.

Your proposal is to put a large supply of systems closer to enemy forces and the you're implying that somehow this wouldn't be vulnerable to being attacked while landed?

jacquesmOP1mo ago

Check out the 'Toloka' family for one sample of what drones are like. They've been used in strikes already.

XorNot1mo ago

That's a submarine.

Which is notably not going to be launching a drone the size of a even a Shahed, nor anything close to the same range.

It also cannot detect nor engage incoming air threats, like essentially every single in service submarine on the planet due to the whole "being underwater" thing.

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XorNot1mo ago

Mix and match how? Your entire one-way arsenal is sitting in cargo containers off the coast of an enemy nation by definition within drone range.

At this point you've built a very slow, very short ranged undefended arsenal ship.

Your proposal is to put a large supply of systems closer to enemy forces and the you're implying that somehow this wouldn't be vulnerable to being attacked while landed?

jacquesmOP1mo ago

Check out the 'Toloka' family for one sample of what drones are like. They've been used in strikes already.

XorNot1mo ago

That's a submarine.

Which is notably not going to be launching a drone the size of a even a Shahed, nor anything close to the same range.

It also cannot detect nor engage incoming air threats, like essentially every single in service submarine on the planet due to the whole "being underwater" thing.

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