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There's.a military axiom that states 'In the battle between warhead and armor, warhead always wins." Similar to "a good offense is the best defense." It makes sense... you can't win a fight always on the defense because eventually a punch gets through. Maybe the problem here is not exploiting OUR asymmetrical advantages. Tit-for-tat but spending 100X to merely neutralize a threat is foolish. We should be picking targets worth 100X of what our armaments cost, e.g., sinking the ship that is hauling a load of drones from Iran to Yemen. We are like a giant floundering as it stomps on stinging ants when we should be going after the anthill with bug spray. We need to make it more expensive for Iran to use proxies to attack us with drones instead of playing defense. The real problem is we're in denial about the fact that we are being attacked by an enemy that has openly and explicitly declared war on us, because we believe they can't really hurt us... and we need to face reality and respond accordingly. All it takes is for one missile to get through and a $300M warship and 300 sailors are killed. One of the Houthi-launched Iranian missiles got through two layers of our defenses last week and was stopped by a CIWS (the Phalanx Close-in Weapons System, an autonomous weapon with a 20mm multi-barrelled gun firing projectiles at a rate of 80 to 100 rounds per second coupled with a targeting radar capable of spotting targets and adjusting aim in real-time). That's a couple seconds away from the defending ship, with nothing else to backstop if it fails to stop the threat. Sooner or later the Houthis and/or their Iranian advisors will figure out (or luck out) how to get one through our defenses... if we let them keep testing our defenses they'll find a weak spot or we'll just be unlucky. Or we can change the calculus by changing the cost. Why is it that we are afraid of escalation but the Houthis and Iran aren't? Who should be afraid, the country with the world's strongest military or a Developing World country that cannot effectively project power? The proper solution to any conflict is to change the calculus by changing the cost to create deterrence. If we don't want to be attacked we need to ensure the cost of attacking to the attacker is far greater than any possible benefit... and we need to convince potential attackers of this. What makes us weak is not lack of capability but lack of will to use that capability effectively and thus ensure deterrence... and that is a failure of leadership. Ask yourself what an effective leader would do, and then ask yourself what our leaders will do, and pray you get the same answer. #denial #problemsolving #strategy #leadership

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING – As drones of all types – aerial, land, and maritime – grow in number and sophistication, so do nightmarish scenarios about their use. #Drone weapons have already been used to deadly effect by both sides in #Ukraine and by #Iran’s various proxies in the Middle East, but what worries military and technological experts are the drone weapons of the future – a future that they believe is right around the corner. #TheCipherBrief Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ez685b-7

The latest versions of the drone seen by CNN weigh up to 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds), with an explosive payload of up to 300 kilograms (661 pounds), a range of 800 kilometers (500 miles) and maximum speed of 80 kph (50 mph).

Electronic Warfare and contested electromagnetic spectrum threaten navigation, location, and communication. Continuous rapid adaptation is a survival essential for both sides in #drone warfare.

Drone Technology Changing Way Wars Are Fought https://lnkd.in/dyB7BSXq Drone Technology Changing Way Wars Are Fought

Read "Ukraine’s Drones, Wreaking Destruction Up and Down European Russia, Are Emerging as the New Face of the War" on SmartNews: https://lnkd.in/efKe6J_P Droneism Long Range slow moving but flying mid height escape most current ADIZ defenses. Just wait until 🇺🇸 deploys the first ever Scramjet Manuverable Atmospheric Mach 15 Weapon which will become the King of all offensive and defensive Weapons. The nearest version on the Globe now is the Polited B21_ first onenoperational last week. Basically undetectable. It Also has Composites Caoability _engineered to accept upgrades in all modalities as each comes on.line. Think ScramjetAutopilot.

The nature of the battlefield is undergoing a transformative shift. The advent of low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in swarms is poised to significantly impact the economies of war. To maintain a strategic advantage and stay on the right side of cost curve, it's imperative for military forces to invest in these innovative solutions. This evolution in warfare strategy highlights the importance of adapting to technological advancements to ensure security and effectiveness in military operations. #Modirum #NSC3 https://lnkd.in/d_mM3Q3C

Unmanned aerial vehicles—or UAVs are changing the warfare. In Ukraine, and everywhere else. But a swarm of these UAVs will radically change everything around the battlefield. Used for military but also in other civilian applications like environmental protection, these new technologies require robust, bug free and reliable software. Enter future! #drones #swarmofdrones #military #c2 #uav #software #bugfree

The creative use of resources can be critical to the outcome of wars, often due to their use by irregular and non-state actors. ISIS' use of commercial #drones during their attack on Mosul questioned the state-based monopoly of unmanned aerial systems. The employment of cheap commercial drones on the battlefield has caused a new kind of psychological, informational, and operational warfare. Problem statement: How to understand the threat deriving from cheap armed drones and how Ukraine employs them on the contemporary battlefield? So what?: Military and defence analysts should delve deeper into researching how and when the key innovations and breakthroughs of using cheap commercial drones occurred. They should ask whether the evolution of drone employment in war can be classified as a revolution in military affairs because #UAS have changed how wars are fought and have impacted planning factors like time and distance, especially for sustainment, movement, and manoeuvre.

Read "Ukraine’s Drones, Wreaking Destruction Up and Down European Russia, Are Emerging as the New Face of the War" on SmartNews: https://lnkd.in/efKe6J_P Droneism Long Range slow moving but flying mid height escape most current ADIZ defenses. Just wait until 🇺🇸 deploys the first ever Scramjet Manuverable Atmospheric Mach 15 Weapon which will become the King of all offensive and defensive Weapons. The nearest version on the Globe now is the Polited B21_ first onenoperational last week. Basically undetectable. It Also has Composites Caoability _engineered to accept upgrades in all modalities as each comes on.line. Think ScramjetAutopilot.