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I can't help but feel like the pentagon/DoD keeps making strategic mistakes with their focus on complex and expensive options. For example, the xbox controller

I can't help but feel like the pentagon/DoD keeps making strategic mistakes with their focus on complex and expensive options. For example, the xbox controller is more successful in submarines and other military applications than costly and more complex custom solutions. Further more, looking at history and modern warfare as is being demonstrated in Ukraine, things that you can sustainably manufacture at large scale without crippling your economy seem to be ideal. Things like cheap but deadly drones, lighter combat gear/pack,etc.. reliance on technology seems to be a liability at times. I'm just being an arm-chair critic, but wouldn't it be better to let robots and drones do their own thing, while humans also be prepared to face off the enemy without relying on fancy tech? Imagine having to re-orient yourself in the middle of battle because your goggle crashed or ran out of battery or the enemy managed to hack the goggle and disorient your people.

sharpshadow 2y ago
Show the drones which can do what missles can do. Recently the whole drone academy including foreign instructors have been blown away in Ukraine with two missles.[0] 0. https://seemorerocks.substack.com/p/190-ukrainian-armed-forces-soldiers https://seemorerocks.substack.com/p/190-ukrainian-armed-forc...
- polotics 2y ago
  As the official count of victims is 58, and your source on substack says 760, if you got more precise and reliably sourced information you should update the Wikipedia page for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2024_Poltava_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2024_Poltava_strike Ok in the meantime I looked at your source website, it's full of vaccine scaremongering and assorted trolling.
- notepad0x90 2y ago
  missiles are expensive, drones are cheap. America's ability to manufacture a ton of tanks and planes won WW2. With opponents like China in play, volume and economic stability matter than concentrated firepower and technological superiority.
- k4rli 2y ago
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- tgsovlerkhgsel 2y ago
  And more recently a huge ammo dump was turned into a giant mushroom cloud with (presumably) drones.

sharpshadow 2y ago

Show the drones which can do what missles can do. Recently the whole drone academy including foreign instructors have been blown away in Ukraine with two missles.[0] 0. https://seemorerocks.substack.com/p/190-ukrainian-armed-forces-soldiers https://seemorerocks.substack.com/p/190-ukrainian-armed-forc...

polotics 2y ago
As the official count of victims is 58, and your source on substack says 760, if you got more precise and reliably sourced information you should update the Wikipedia page for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2024_Poltava_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2024_Poltava_strike Ok in the meantime I looked at your source website, it's full of vaccine scaremongering and assorted trolling.
notepad0x90 2y ago
missiles are expensive, drones are cheap. America's ability to manufacture a ton of tanks and planes won WW2. With opponents like China in play, volume and economic stability matter than concentrated firepower and technological superiority.
k4rli 2y ago
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tgsovlerkhgsel 2y ago
And more recently a huge ammo dump was turned into a giant mushroom cloud with (presumably) drones.