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How would manned aircraft help defend against swarms of drones deployed by decentralized enemy units? Drones are manufactured out of people’s garages, you can’t
by _1tem 1y ago
How would manned aircraft help defend against swarms of drones deployed by decentralized enemy units? Drones are manufactured out of people’s garages, you can’t just take out the source like you can take out an airfield. On the other hand, Ukraine disabled a significant number of Russia’s manned aircraft with surreptitiously deployed drones (Operation Spider Web).
- BobaFloutist 1y agoIf we're talking US-level air-superiority and impunity from non-nuclear retribution, manned aircraft helps defend against swarms of drones by bombing the factories, the assembly plants, the receiving warehouses, or dropping a nerf-ball on the head-of-state's head and saying "stop it."
- FpUser 1y agoOr those wonderful planes would be blown out of the sky by missiles.
- BobaFloutist 1y agoYeah that's fair. It's also I think too easy to imagine this as an RTS when real life has additional complications (for example, your attack jet can't hover indefinitely just outside of range of AA guns and wait for infantry to leave their protection). I expect air superiority still has uses and advantages, but I will admit to not being excessively knowledgeable about how war is best waged in 2025.