The idea that:
"Camouflage will save Artillery from drones” just got hit in the breach block.
Quadcopter drones can stalk you through trees and brush like a mine carrying suicidal infantryman that can fly.
Drone War HR🧵
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"Camouflage will save Artillery from drones” just got hit in the breach block.
Quadcopter drones can stalk you through trees and brush like a mine carrying suicidal infantryman that can fly.
Drone War HR🧵
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https://twitter.com/UkraineNewsLive/status/1810154256340558152
There is no such thing as cover or dead ground for infantry, artillery, or armor to hide from FPV drones.
"Cover" consists of actively sensing if you are in radio line of sight of an operational drone.
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"Cover" consists of actively sensing if you are in radio line of sight of an operational drone.
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https://twitter.com/omg_interesting/status/1741013612351586433
"Every ground combat soldier an electronic warfare operator" is where we are going in the next three years.
The human resource implications of this transformation for Western armies are devastating.
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The human resource implications of this transformation for Western armies are devastating.
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Essentially current Western army flag ranks are like 1914 horse cavalry generals transported to the 1980's.
Everything they knew in terms of combat experience, institutional training and budget politics is negative value added in this new drone combat paradigm.
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Everything they knew in terms of combat experience, institutional training and budget politics is negative value added in this new drone combat paradigm.
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Captains and below in the officer corps are both young and flexible enough to adapt to the new reality.
Major through full Colonel will be one of three things:
Adaptable;
Useless dead weight;
Actively negative value added.
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Major through full Colonel will be one of three things:
Adaptable;
Useless dead weight;
Actively negative value added.
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The centuries long institutional advantages of Western militaries in generating ground combat power at intercontinental distance are gone until the new Electronic Warfare skills set are generated from private to flag rank.
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Current Western ground combat flag ranks ability to adapt to the the new radio-electronic combat drone paradigm rivals that of the Chief executive of Arianespace 10 years ago to adapt to the oncoming SpaceX reusable rocket paradigm.
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https://x.com/esherifftv/status/1676777881349894146
Technologically incompetent senior leadership happens when shifts in technology arrive.
We saw it with horse cavalry and battleships versus machine guns and carrier dive bombers.
We are seeing it now with reusable orbital rockets and drones.
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We saw it with horse cavalry and battleships versus machine guns and carrier dive bombers.
We are seeing it now with reusable orbital rockets and drones.
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Only defeat, bankruptcy or outside intervention can cure the problem.
Western political elites would have to choose wisely to accomplish that outside intervention.🙄
So I'm placing my bets of a Vietnam class defeat being required to make this drone combat change.
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Western political elites would have to choose wisely to accomplish that outside intervention.🙄
So I'm placing my bets of a Vietnam class defeat being required to make this drone combat change.
9/9
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