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> An amazing idea: Drive a truck full of drones deep into enemy territory and let them loose. Is it such an amazing idea? Imagine the shoe is on the other foot
by ClumsyPilot 1y ago
> An amazing idea: Drive a truck full of drones deep into enemy territory and let them loose.
Is it such an amazing idea? Imagine the shoe is on the other foot - would you normally be able to drive a truck full of drones into a country at war, say Israel? This puts a target on civilian vehicles.
> In the process, manage to poke serious holes into Russia's nuclear deterrent.
Again, is it such an amazing idea? Do you want to make people in charge of nuclear weapons more jumpy and likely to make a rash decision?
- CoastalCoder 1y agoAmazing doesn't necessarily mean welcome. It's amazing in how effective it was, and the asymmetry of the destruction compared to cold-war assumptions.
- Zamaamiro 1y agoRussians are using those planes to bomb Ukrainian cities and murder Ukrainian civilians. “Amazing” is the correct word for it
- ClumsyPilot 1y agoI would support this idealistic approach and disregard for consequences if we didn’t have an “ally” that’s doing exactly the same thing, and potentially vulnerable if a major power decides to intervene
- Zamaamiro 1y agoIdealism is thinking you can bomb a country’s cities with impunity and not expect any blowback.
- jsiepkes 1y agoPut a target on civilian vehicles? This changes nothing. I don't know if you read or watched "generation kill" but even US troops shot at everything which came too close for comfort in Iraq. And I understand that, any unidentified vehicle could be hostile. You are not going to sit and wait to find out as a soldier. Also they didn't drive a truck into Russia. The trucks were acquired and modified in Russia. And according to Russia they are not in a war. They are in a "special military operation"...