Ditching the F35 would allow the US to invest in 17,937,000 AI-enable small and nano drones. Combined with swarming a few hundred could neutralize an entire J-20 squadron This won't happen because the DOD lacks insight into future technology & grand strategy. A short 🧵👇1/39
Did you know, DJI produces more UAV's then the rest of the world combined? 3.75 times more to be exact. Millions of those can swarm and deny the F-35 the ability to take-off / land. No problem for this 👇. 2/39
Sure these drones may only have a 2-3 lb warhead. But we can launch 30-50 at a single target. Sure they may only have a 2 hour endurance but that's easily solvable. The J-20 has absolutely no counter for this. It's amazing how much the DOD has dropped the ball on this. 3/39
A single such drone doesn't do much. But imagine a few dozen of these impacting a J-20 parked on a runway or about to take off. For the cost of an AIM-120 AMRAAM missile, we could essentially take out an entire J-20 four ship. 4/39
Why invest in Manned-Unmanned Teaming when we can jump straight to Unmanned-Unmanned teaming? 👇is the RMA that we're missing out on. This is the future of ground combat. 5/39
Instead of launching a Million dollar missile from an $80 MM F-35, or using a $9 Million THAAD against a $50,000 Shahed, imagine if we used 👇for missile defense? Again, too much incompetence in the DOD to turn it into a reality. 6/39
Want SSN-X? How about a 334,646 next generation micro submarines? Another RMA that the DOD will miss out on because of a lack of vision insight into technology trends. 7/39
The tens of billions being poured into Aircraft Carriers and multi-billion dollar Air-Wings, is making the Navy miss out on the AI enabled RMA happening elsewhere. For the cost of one CVN, we could field 645,321 👇 Drone Carriers (notice the ski-ramp). #DistributedLethality 8/39
If only @david_alman could look into the future and promoted 3.5 million sea planes littered around the Pacific, complicating Chinese shipping and targeting. Instead of a single Shin Maywa, you could get 291,351 of 👇 9/39
A single Army / USMC #HIMARS could give way to a few dozen high flying 👇 . Imagine if Ukraine had these deployed against Russia. It would all be over in 3-days. 10/39
Could an F-35, J-20 or Su-57 dogfight dozens of these? At once? No chance. 11/39
Some of this Chinese nanno technology is quite frightening and already being deployed against the US military. As expected, the DOD is too late to act or too invested in the "present" to care. 12/39
Be serious. Which one would you place your bet on? 13/39
PLA could take out your Air-Base faster than you could say DOTMLPF(P). 14/39
An F-35 sized factory could produce double digit billion of these per year. Want a free and open Indo-Pacific? Embrace the future. 15/39
“I've concluded – consistent with the analysis – that we need a naval force of over 500 ships,” Admiral Gilday
Imagine 👇 but unmanned and dozens supporting FONOP. Navy lacks imagination!
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"Self defense is never denied" 17/39
WOW. #THISCHANGESEVERYTHING 18/39
Unmanned/Robot-aided logistics. Another area that's massively underinvested compared to our competitors. 19/39
To the untrained, this may appear junk. To the wise, that's at least a few squadrons of Shahed-XXX's. 20/39
Let's harness the Defense Industrial Base to the fullest. Immeasurable amount of latent #AirPower👇. 21/39
PLA gonna fly right above your ISV and lob grenades down. 22/39
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