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Modern combat is not at all the same thing as WWI/WWII "turn and burn" stuff..."Turn and Burn" was already out of favor with US pilots in WWII. In WWII, F4 Wil
by stcredzero 8y ago
Modern combat is not at all the same thing as WWI/WWII "turn and burn" stuff..."Turn and Burn" was already out of favor with US pilots in WWII.
In WWII, F4 Wildcat pilots soon learned not to get into turning contests with Mitsubishi Zeros. Instead, they maintained altitude and speed, using their advantage in a dive to execute "slashing" attacks.
something that looks like a DJI phantom...the only way I seem them being useful is 1000 of them in a dense cloud around a target.. like stationary mines in the sky hoping to be struck by attackers like a bird strike.
Those drones are plenty fast enough for tanks. Why not a tank equivalent of an aircraft carrier? The tank would act as a mobile charging station and command center. Most modern tanks could be severely disabled by a shaped charge placed directly onto the barrel of the main gun, or directly onto the tread mechanism. The machine guns and targeting systems are also quite vulnerable, the loss of which would also severely degrade the tank's combat power. Tanks have acquired countermeasure systems like Trophy, but those could be overwhelmed through saturation attacks and on current tanks, they are externally mounted and themselves vulnerable.
- StavrosK 8y agoThey'd have to fly fully autonomously with just vision, which is pretty hard to do (though not impossible). It's not as easy as putting some explosives on a quadcopter and sending it out.
- stcredzero 8y agoThey'd have to fly fully autonomously with just vision, which is pretty hard to do (though not impossible). If such a vehicle could operate without infantry support, it might be worth doing the R&D.
- pcarmichael 8y ago> Instead, they maintained altitude and speed, using their advantage in a dive to execute "slashing" attacks. Fun trivia that I read a while back: After getting hold of a zero, they discovered that the carburetor design would cause the engine to sputter on high speed dives. https://www.history.com/news/the-akutan-zero-how-a-captured-japanese-fighter-plane-helped-win-world-war-ii https://www.history.com/news/the-akutan-zero-how-a-captured-...
- stcredzero 8y agothey discovered that the carburetor design would cause the engine to sputter on high speed dives Also, their controls could become sluggish at the right conditions near their top speeds.
- dragonwriter 8y agoMost modern tanks are vulnerable to shaped charges (and other effective penetrators) anywhere but the front and maybe turret sides, a fact exploited by smart submunitions that do top attacks, and can be delivered quickly over long ranges by artillery shells or rockets. This is probably much cheaper per charge and more tactically useful (one launcher covers a wider area with equal response time) than kamikaze quadcopter drones.