tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post1925726133459503498..comments2024-03-28T06:31:29.549-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Lessons learned from a recent warPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-6973479294760980102021-04-10T21:57:08.222-05:002021-04-10T21:57:08.222-05:00The limitations on these high-tech tactics will be...The limitations on these high-tech tactics will be, as usual, the ability to manufacture sufficient quantities of the tools to implement them, and lack of inventiveness of the countering forces.<br /><br />American manufacturing might, combined with Soviet willingness to spend lives, won WWII.<br /><br />The US has given up its manufacturing might, and has since the beginning of the 20th century, at least, been unwilling to spend the live, and both look to be unlikely to change.<br /><br />Confrontation with China is going to be painful.<br /><br />KurtKurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00256691390611801017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-17567866481208420662021-04-10T21:20:01.070-05:002021-04-10T21:20:01.070-05:00Could a cheap air defense system be created that w...Could a cheap air defense system be created that would cope with these cheap drones? I remember a post, I believe here, asking the question if ship defenses could be overwhelmed by a large number of cheap drones. this is the same thing, only land based. How was this much different than the antitank parachute munitions that scan for a target after release and then rocket into the target? If drones become dominant in the air, is the logical response drones on the ground to minimize personal losses? <br /> Tactically, it's been standard for artillery to relocate after firing to avoid anti-barrage return the fire. Maybe the response to this will be for anti-air assets to also be more mobile? Overload in Coloradohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11277277751144486368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-34512957350829568382021-04-08T10:09:10.905-05:002021-04-08T10:09:10.905-05:00as always, our military industrial complex is read...as always, our military industrial complex is ready to fight, the last war. now the intel swamp has blinded them to the treat as well so it will be a long learning curve in blood. we'll likely pull thru in the end, if we don't get destroyed in the first few seconds of the conflict. hard to fight deaf, blind, lost, with no power, no money, no fuel and no friends. just ask hitler.riverriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198514937704741211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-14776772785511980742021-04-07T19:13:42.012-05:002021-04-07T19:13:42.012-05:00Future nation state war will be a lot more expensi...Future nation state war will be a lot more expensive that's for sure. Stealth bombers loaded with EMP bombs and droppable semi autonomous swarm drones (aka slaughter bots) would make excellent genocide weapons if they could get through air defenses.<br /><br />This means everyone now needs much better air defenses which makes wealth asymmetry back to the "for we have the Maxim Gun, and they have not" stage. <br /><br />Think of it this way a small drone is about $50 US assuming you can deliver enough of these with small explosive payloads you can render an urban area mostly uninhabitable pretty cheaply. Its also great against agricultural land something like a smarter sneakier FASCAM system. <br /><br />We haven't quite yet managed the solar recharge or the autonomy and linger software but its all within our grasp. <br /><br />Both the YouTube film Slaughter Bots and the Black Mirror episode Metalhead show possible if cinematic outcomes of such tech. <br /><br />The more current issue though is essentially as Aesop put it though as others here have noted the US is way behind the curve and frankly in no shape for a real fight against a peer power. <br /><br />Until the Reds are gone from office we won't be up for it as we don't encourage the kind of society that is capable of military ops or tech. We don't even make our own stuff domestically or have enough rare earths , nuke parts, tritium and so on for the job. <br /><br />5stonegameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10694550968360550229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-72772114380613983492021-04-07T18:31:21.374-05:002021-04-07T18:31:21.374-05:00the American Public is about to have a chance to d...the American Public is about to have a chance to decide just HOW MUCH Blood and Treasure we are willing to see spilt in someone ELSE's behalf.<br />once the American panjandrums and perfumed princes finish chasing the NOT unwilling Ukrainians up the flagpole and thus drop the Green Flag on an, at best, lukewarm start invasion, we will get a chance to decide just how much blood we're willing to spill.<br />MY suspicion is that we Plebs are MUCH LESS interested in watering some other people's land with our blood.<br /><br />The next 2-3 months WILL tell the tale on THAT issue.<br /><br />Distressingly, there are even more inflammatory issues in our OWN areas of operations, which may ALSO give us pause as to where we REALLY WANT to spend our young people's blood.<br />ANTIFA and BLM are JUST beginning to rev themselves up. You didn't REALLY think the shot callers could ACTUALLY start and stop them on a dime, did you??<br />Useful idiots are only useful while they can be directed. when they free-lance EN MASSE then issues develop.<br />Gonna be a LONG HOT MARCHING SEASON (Summer as well).<br /><br /><br />Night DriverNight driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14034183882627686763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-1449050424346063112021-04-07T18:28:27.030-05:002021-04-07T18:28:27.030-05:00Something entirely overlooked in the above tale:
...Something entirely overlooked in the above tale:<br /><br />All those UAVs were operating in a hugely "permissive" UAV environment.<br />1) The enemy was not expecting them.<br />2) No jamming was present.<br />3) Even had they been expecting them, they had no adequate defenses.<br /><br />The lessons of the above story are that people with technology will beat any force that is figuratively or literally "savages with spears", in any situation where they can work within their own envelope, and outside the enemy's.<br /><br />There is, literally, nothing much to see here.<br />Other than "don't charge a mini-gun with leather shields and clubs", etc. etc.<br /><br />In a non-permissive environment, the drones themselves would be detected and interdicted, and anything emanating would get a missile up their @$$ at about Mach 5, or the exact same counter-battery fire they were calling down, coming the other way.<br /><br />In other news, battleships don't beat carriers, broadsides don't beat surface-to-surface missiles, and cavalry with lances don't defeat panzer blitzkriegs.<br /><br />One side leveraged tech because they could. The other side was clueless.<br /><br /><b>Don't be clueless.</b><br /><br />Clueless gets you Pearl Harbored.<br /><br />"<i>Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, boy.</i>" - Dean Wormer, Faber College<br /><br />But the "<i>Fool Me Once</i>" corollary is, any enemy can have <i>one</i> Pearl Harbor victory.<br />But the payback is a b*tch.<br />Usually on a biblical level.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-271146884471287492021-04-07T18:18:03.315-05:002021-04-07T18:18:03.315-05:00Good article.
Azerbaijan got Everything it want...Good article. <br /><br />Azerbaijan got Everything it wanted in territory, and out spent the Armenians 6 to 1. Perhaps this is like the Sam and anti tank missile pivot that changed tactics due to the yom kipper 73 war.<br /><br />I’m not seeing very effective anti uas defenses yet. Anti missile like the patriot are over kill.<br /><br />My guess there was massive Turkish help, beyond just arms sales, that helped the Azerbaijan side. <br /><br />Still, troubling changes that I’m Not sure the us military is even thinking about, much less adapting too.Ray - SoCalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293232996007277071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-17597244551061251242021-04-07T16:45:49.424-05:002021-04-07T16:45:49.424-05:00Ukraine already demonstrated some of the effective...Ukraine already demonstrated some of the effectiveness of UAS, especially when pushed down to the company, platoon, and in some cases, even squad level as the Russians have done. If those drones detected any transmissions on certain frequencies, following Russian artillery doctrine, they'd just wax the grid square. Happened more than once, and even caught some of our observers that went over.<br /><br />With the US Army's decision to divest itself of jamming capabilities, and the lack of investment in integral ADA and over-reliance on theater level air defenses, we would still get chewed up and spit out today. The chaparral and linebacker systems are good, but, IMO, we really need something to replace the old M163 Vulcan air defense vehicle, especially in light of the proliferation of inexpensive, small, and deadly UAS.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01182483128899857832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-17065962975881135862021-04-07T14:17:45.543-05:002021-04-07T14:17:45.543-05:00Just a matter of time until we see the counter UAV...Just a matter of time until we see the counter UAV systems start to proliferate... Then it will be interesting, as air battles will take place against the UAVs 'manned' by kids with joysticks on the ground.Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.com