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jabster's avatar

Drones are another example of how the safetyists are going to be the death of us all.

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Arthur's avatar

Excellent reporting. Keep up the good work. If only we had such minds as these people running our country. Reversion the lowest common denominator of IQ as we have in the current situation will assure the loyalty-based corruption will create every kind of defensive wall imaginable to maintain their advantage. May a swarm of brilliant new minds with character invade that situation in the next election cycle.

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Skip Penny's avatar

Very informative! Thanks

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Dale D's avatar

Where can I buy some? LOL

I have recently read about water cannons used on ships to stop drones. It may have even been one of your articles. Seems like an interesting option on the water especially since water is plentiful but the distance is nominal and could get scary even as a tertiary line of defense.

Quite the scary article, I hope our military industrial government complex stops being so hidebound in its resistance to making things that actually work are cost effective. Seems all of the mega caps are doing nothing but sucking up tax dollars and endangering the American people be it military gear of our food supply. I am almost sorry to have red pilled. Ignorance can be bliss.

Thanks.

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Corey Rigberg's avatar

Great article on Drone technology!

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David Redfern's avatar

If your intelligence informs you there is a "stalemate" in Ukraine, then not much more of this article can be trusted.

And what's missing here is any reference to, at least in the short term, targeting the drone operators, which seems an effective Russian activity to counter the threat of relatively short range drones.

And discovered recently on the battlefields of Ukraine was one of the most effective, low cost means of countering fibre optic tethered drones - a small pair of scissors.

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jabster's avatar

Signal hopping is the famous Hedy Lamarr invention. https://patents.google.com/patent/US2292387A/

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4dEdited

Raytheon literally started as a company making vacuum tubes over 100 years ago. They also invented the microwave oven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon#/media/File:Raytheon1934TubeBox.PNG

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jabster's avatar

Patton said you don't win wars by dying for your country--you win them by making the other poor bastard die for his country.

Drones just made the task of finding the bastards that much tougher.

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Jeff Cromwell's avatar

What is the chance of collateral damage, that is, does HPM weaponry destroy home electronics, planes, cell towers, etc that are located nearby?

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Jeff Cromwell's avatar

Does HPM weaponry destroy

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Atlandea's avatar

what kind of weapon dustified the World Trade Center in 2001?

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John W Hendry's avatar

I watched the big parade yesterday. It was a great, patriotic event. So much heavy, powerful field equipment...stuff that will probably be mostly useless in the next war. This is an amazing article about emerging war technology.

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James F's avatar

More than I wanted to know about drones.

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Eddie Soehnel's avatar

Great piece. The tectonic shift few are paying attention to is the transition from the primes to the neos. Boeing, in particular, is toast. I cannot see it reclaiming any lead in defense and space, and its commercial division is basically the walking dead once you factor in Boom and its emerging competitors. It will exist to serve its legacy products, but at a fraction of the size.

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The Tao of Consciousness's avatar

Best article yet!

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