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Ukraine is an excellent reminder that trench warfare sucks and is a manpower and resource drain for both sides. One guy in a fighter jet is probably 1000000x mo

by wildzzz 6mo ago

Ukraine is an excellent reminder that trench warfare sucks and is a manpower and resource drain for both sides. One guy in a fighter jet is probably 1000000x more effective than a guy in a trench. One guided munition has the capability to decapitate an entire government.

booleandilemma 6mo ago
Unless it's the government of Iran, apparently.
- mrits 6mo ago
  Are you referring to the new government Iran that took over after their leadership has been removed?
  - anton1982t 6mo ago
    They're likely referring to the government that controls Hormuz straight.
    - mrits 6mo ago
      Does saying obviously false statements make you feel better about yourself?
jrumbut 6mo ago
We are also protected on both sides by an ocean. If Canada and Mexico were hostile powers then we would be investing more in artillery shells and less in fighter jets. Germany and North Korea are accessible by land to hostile powers, so their situation is very different.
esseph 6mo ago
> One guy in a fighter jet is probably 1000000x more effective than a guy in a trench A guy in a trench with a $25,000 electro-optical/thermal MANPAD can now snipe a $100+ million dollar 5th gen stealth fighter flying low and fast. To decapitate a government you'd just need a roughly $500 drone you can make at home and some homemade explosives. Bonus points if you harden it from electronic attack and use INS and optical terrain recognition for navigation and image analysis for final targeting. Basically a 13 year old with an afternoon and some time in the library. It's a weird time.
- zeristor 6mo ago
  With this tech advantage what is there to stop Ukraine advancing into half of Russia? Russia is a nuclear power, I’m not sure if they’ve missed the moment or the fact so much was spent on its upkeep it was a magnet for corruption and all the rocket fuel has been replaced with pipe cleaner. The thing that really annoys me is there’s lots of great Russian people, and Putin has herded them off of a cliff. Where does Russia go from here, or can Russia go? A myriad of warlords? The Russian East disintegrates and China comes in to reclaim the land Russia took after the Boxer Rebellion 150 years ago?
  - Gud 6mo ago
    Many parts of Russia were independent kingdoms only recently. Probably (hopefully!) Russia will disintegrate into its smaller pieces.
  - wildzzz 6mo ago
    Manpower is the major resource necessary to take ground. You can bomb everything from the sky or from artillery far away but you don't control the land until you can put boots on the ground to defend it. Even if you manage to drone every Russian in Crimea, you don't own it until you can move in and defend your claim.

by wildzzz 6mo ago

booleandilemma 6mo ago

Unless it's the government of Iran, apparently.

mrits 6mo ago
Are you referring to the new government Iran that took over after their leadership has been removed?
- anton1982t 6mo ago
  They're likely referring to the government that controls Hormuz straight.
  - mrits 6mo ago
    Does saying obviously false statements make you feel better about yourself?

jrumbut 6mo ago

We are also protected on both sides by an ocean. If Canada and Mexico were hostile powers then we would be investing more in artillery shells and less in fighter jets. Germany and North Korea are accessible by land to hostile powers, so their situation is very different.

esseph 6mo ago

> One guy in a fighter jet is probably 1000000x more effective than a guy in a trench A guy in a trench with a $25,000 electro-optical/thermal MANPAD can now snipe a $100+ million dollar 5th gen stealth fighter flying low and fast. To decapitate a government you'd just need a roughly $500 drone you can make at home and some homemade explosives. Bonus points if you harden it from electronic attack and use INS and optical terrain recognition for navigation and image analysis for final targeting. Basically a 13 year old with an afternoon and some time in the library. It's a weird time.

zeristor 6mo ago
With this tech advantage what is there to stop Ukraine advancing into half of Russia? Russia is a nuclear power, I’m not sure if they’ve missed the moment or the fact so much was spent on its upkeep it was a magnet for corruption and all the rocket fuel has been replaced with pipe cleaner. The thing that really annoys me is there’s lots of great Russian people, and Putin has herded them off of a cliff. Where does Russia go from here, or can Russia go? A myriad of warlords? The Russian East disintegrates and China comes in to reclaim the land Russia took after the Boxer Rebellion 150 years ago?
- Gud 6mo ago
  Many parts of Russia were independent kingdoms only recently. Probably (hopefully!) Russia will disintegrate into its smaller pieces.
- wildzzz 6mo ago
  Manpower is the major resource necessary to take ground. You can bomb everything from the sky or from artillery far away but you don't control the land until you can put boots on the ground to defend it. Even if you manage to drone every Russian in Crimea, you don't own it until you can move in and defend your claim.