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Offline rangerrebew

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Air Weapons: American Drone Debacle
« on: October 01, 2025, 10:27:15 am »
Air Weapons: American Drone Debacle
 

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September 27, 2025: The United States has provided most of the military aid Ukraine needed in its war with Russia. American military advisers began working with Ukrainian forces in 2014, after Russia seized Crimea and portions of two adjacent provinces from Ukraine. The United States was not about to go to war with Russia over this, but that was always a possibility because Ukraine wanted to join NATO. Russia opposed this and believed that Ukraine should be part of Russia.


Between 2014 and early 2022, there was some low-level combat in the contested provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk. That changed when Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022. The invaders believed that the Ukrainians would not offer any effective resistance and would quickly surrender. Three and a half years later, the war is still ongoing, and the Russians are losing, with over a million dead, disabled, or missing troops. Economic sanctions imposed on Russia have, according to Russian leaders, done serious damage to their economy.

https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairw/articles/202509277349.aspx#gsc.tab=0
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Re: Air Weapons: American Drone Debacle
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2025, 10:48:52 am »
The procurement system is designed around ordering next generation aircraft carriers and next generation air superiority aircraft.  They need to be large and cumbersome because they require the development, procurement, and integration of hundreds, if not thousands, of systems, subsystems, and components.  It moves at bureaucracy speed.

The Pentagon procurement system is structured for multi-year capital projects.

Much like Space Force was broken out into its own service, tactical autonomous systems needs to be special operation units free from the bureaucracy of the Navy, Army, and Air Force.  The shelf life of technology, components, and software is measured in months, not years.
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