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With this attitude, anything is a week long project. 1. You're making extremely optimistic assumptions about the results of your system. The translation betwee
by joey_bob 7y ago
With this attitude, anything is a week long project.
1. You're making extremely optimistic assumptions about the results of your system. The translation between your simulation and reality may not be so smooth. Also jets are fast.
2. Lasers jam your system.
3. It's a difficult problem to crash a malfunctioning plane in a certain area when you are behind the sticks, let alone by doing it with a collision.
- matheweis 7y agoIn the context of asymmetric warfare this might not be a significant issue. The offensive side need only be successful a fraction of the time, but the defensive side must be successful nearly all of the time.
- cameronbrown 7y agoBeing successful is not binary. The offensive side needs to be significantly more successful in order to gain an upper hand. Otherwise it's defenders advantage every time.
- mistermann 7y agoAnd yet, the odd successful terrorist attack makes word headlines.
- buckminster 7y agoIt's almost like there aren't actually vast numbers of motivated terrorists trying to kill us.
- anigbrowl 7y agoIn Clausewitzian warfare this is true but not in asymmetric warfare. As a simplistic analogy, there's no need to score a knockout punch if you can trick your opponent into falling on their face.
- noobermin 7y agoTbh, I think the only stable outcome is that which was during the cold war, MAD. That or may be people can try diplomacy for once.
- anigbrowl 7y agoIf you have money you can just launch 50 of them and hope 2 or 3 find their target. The marginal cost is relatively low.