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Counter battery radar only tells you where the enemy was when they fired, not where they are now. Even with drone surveillance, the drone has to find the target
by redeyedtreefrog 4y ago
Counter battery radar only tells you where the enemy was when they fired, not where they are now. Even with drone surveillance, the drone has to find the target before it gets shot down, and then the information has to be acted on before they move. Also counter battery radars are themselves are vulnerable targets. It doesn't seem implausible to suggest that within a decade there will be missiles or loitering munitions with image detection programs for seeking out enemy artillery (or ships, or tanks, or even infantry) that would render shoot and scoot much less effective. It wouldn't require anything like AGI. There are all sorts of ethical issues with this idea, but the PLA isn't going to care about that. Not really sure how the West is going to handle the fact the PLA will have weapons that much of the western public are against developing in principle. I guess that's another parallel with nuclear weapons.