Josh
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Josh
@LostLT1
Am reading. (In order to write later)
Whale Gap Katılım Temmuz 2018
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If drones are able to consistently independently target or cue other assets to target damaged tanks and other vehicles and turn recoverable losses into irrecoverable losses, a basic premise of armor operations, that tanks can easily be returned to combat if backed by a 3/x
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There's been a lot of reporting about drones acting as carrion on the battlefield - that is picking off already damaged vehicles.
When we take a look at historic armor operations, it becomes evident that armor units have historically often taken heavy equipment losses 1/x
CJ@CasualArtyFan
One of the most dangerous time for an SPG is on the road. While this North Korean M1989 looks to have been abandoned by an earlier strike of some sort, it just goes to show you that drones can turn damaged vehicles into destroyed vehicles quite easily.
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🚨certainly not nothing
For me, space based comms enabling widely dispersed terrestrial systems operations and operator locations is one of the final conceptual capabilities to achieve Douhetian level robotics integration.
-don’t forget, sea control is a requisite of space ops
Samuel Bendett@sambendett
Russians are claiming that they flew an "Ovod" FPV drone in eastern Ukraine while its pilot was 800 km away in Tula, Russia. The flight was allegedly conducted via Russia's "Orbita" space-based comms system. No further details were provided. t.me/tulaovod/546
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@MAGTravF Interesting that combat forces made battlefield modifications to increase their survivability prior to industry sanctioned and enacted modification. Almost as if this is a known historical pattern and we should be wary about too quickly deriding battlefield modifications
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#OTD 27 Feb 1945
U.S. Marines inspect the damage to their M4 Sherman “Cairo” after striking a land mine. Of note is the wooden side planking designed to protect from magnetic demolition charges.
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A UMO three days ago: I don't know why we have to print off all these stickers and do 50 different train trackers. It's not as if a Bradley is just gonna disappear between here NTC
MEDPROS Center of Excellence@Asst_to_the_RM
*FALL IN* OK LOOK, I NEED 12 VOLUNTEERS. NO QUESTIONS
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*FALL IN*
OK LOOK, I NEED 12 VOLUNTEERS.
NO QUESTIONS
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@LostLT1 You’re in a make-believe unit.
Your HR metrics don’t count
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10 hour drive back to Stewart early for a dental appointment is how committed I am to my own HR metrics.
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@KiranPfitzner @The_Lookout_N @SashoTodorov1 might remember the article but a year ago there was a great deal of making fun of a US Army general for saying something to the effect of you might need two armies - one for blunting, one for protection - just not as elegantly hence the commentary
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@The_Lookout_N Given the general scarcity of resources, I don’t think there’s much chance of that. If you can only anticipate one kind of war, maneuver is the one you want. Not only does it give you the chance of a short war, but losing a war of maneuver means losing hard.
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I think there's a need for Western, and especially Euro military thinkers, to take a new look at attritional warfare.
Maneuver warfare, and the idea of a short, sharp war has been the mantra for so long, that one easily can fall for a failure of imagination, with potentially severe consequences.
This isn't to say that everything manoeuvrist should be thrown out the window but, I think an adjustment of mindset is necessary.
Especially if we want to prevent a potential war with Russia from quickly escalating into a strategic nuclear exchange.
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@TheKimulation Star Wars Revenge of the Sith novelization - Battle of Coruscant
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Begun the drone wars have
Future Adam Curtis B-Roll@adamcurtisbroll
A self-driving car collides with a food delivery robot in San Francisco, December 2024.
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@ChemicalFire I'm being lazy and haven't tried *actual* research yet. I figure someone somewhere has looked at it - but it's kinda niche it's gonna be a pain in the ass to get the word combo right - or speed read/skim a bunch of hits from a wide search
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Anyone know of any Army/AF/DOD studies on the anticipated effect of second-echelon targeting as part of ALB in projected force casualty rates for Soviet Second Echelon formations or the effect that such targeting would hopefully have on slowing down their projected march tables
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