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Offline rangerrebew

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Why the U.S. Military Needs to Imitate Ukraine’s Drone Force
« on: August 14, 2024, 04:27:50 pm »
Why the U.S. Military Needs to Imitate Ukraine’s Drone Force
 
 
By Lorenz Meier and Niall FergusonAugust 13, 2024 10:31 AM EDT

Meier is the Chairman of the DroneCode Foundation and founder and CEO of Auterion. He is a MIT 35-under-35 Innovator and creator of Pixhawk, the most widely used drone autopilot and MAVLink, the industry standard for communication, also used by the U.S. Department of Defense. He holds a PhD in computer vision and drone engineering.

Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of 16 books, most recently 'Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe.' He is also the founder of advisory firm Greenmantle and a founding trustee of the new University of Austin.

Imagine it is 2028 and there is a coordinated parallel attack executed by Russia on one of the Baltic states and by China on Taiwan. Under such a scenario, Russia would attempt to seize NATO territory and China would blockade Taiwan as a fait accompli to undermine alliance cohesion.

As things stand, NATO’s conventional forces would struggle to withstand such a Russian assault. And it would take weeks, if not months, to deploy American troops to the Indo-Pacific region.


 https://time.com/7010426/us-military-drone-force/
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Re: Why the U.S. Military Needs to Imitate Ukraine’s Drone Force
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2024, 04:29:59 pm »
I don't know this with certainty, but I'm guessing the Ukraine military isn't woke which means the US can't imitate it unless they get rid of wokeness, which Biden and Davis aren't going to let happen. **nononono*
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Re: Why the U.S. Military Needs to Imitate Ukraine’s Drone Force
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2024, 11:00:18 pm »
Drones, surveillance and attack, have been proven to carry an advantage over opposition forces on the battlefield.
Period.
Not taking advantage of that capability would be foolish, if not suicidal, because any enemy will.
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