i just love your writing and detailed overview of both ukraine and iran wars (though obviously i wish they never happened which never get reported on by us msm. thank you for your insight and your service.
Thanks for the kind words, Verne. You should read my pre-2022 stuff. It was the most boring stuff in the world. After Russia's full-scale invasion, something snapped and I just started writing like I talk. lol
it definitely works. as a non-wonk, i enjoy both yours and shankar narayan's geopolitical assessments of this current shitstorm, mostly self-inflicted to boot.
Yup. NATO and America NEED Ukraine 🇺🇦 to survive the next few decades. What is “alien jellyfish “ to the big powers is Tuesday to the Ukrainian Defenders.
The US I believe promoted the F35 to be such a vehicale capable of being connected to smaller semi autiomous UAV's.
No reason why a larger and more sophisitciacted UAV could not take on the role of an F35.
Iran did convince the US's most advanced UAV, the Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel back in December 2011, to land in Iran much to the embarassement of the US. They proabably learned a lot from that capture. It was said to have great STEALTH features.
No question in my mind. This is what Sweden seems to wanting to sell with their Gripen. The Gripen is the brains and it has dozens of drones with it. That would just about kill any stealth achieved for other aircraft. And, I know enough to understan that with that distributed sight capability, it will not be that hard to have some suicidal drones designed specifically to attack. I don't accept that the US military is unaware of how easy this would be. I do thoroughly enjoy your articles and look forward to them. I always know I will a few good things.
I remember reading about the development of the algorithms in around the mid-ninties for modeling flocks when birds swarmed. Back then we did not have the technology to implement. Today we can. How do you defend against an EMP hardened swarm? My understanding is that if you get up about a hundred drones, it becomes impossible to avoid. Now make the drones suicidal each eager to be the one to kill. What a nightmare for any military plane. Plus there are loitering drones that can stay up for well over a month reported. No doubt in my mind that is the lower limit of what has already been done. I just wish I had some confidence that the US was funding the people here with the imagination to do what can be done.
I think I speak for pilots everywhere when I say "Shit."
Your chain of reasoning is all too plausible. So what's the solution? Use one of those "Loyal Wingman" or other drones (when available) to scout for and destroy (or ECM) those drone formations? 🤔
I was just thinking through that logic. If I'm a fighter pilot and I see a "wall" of quadcopters essentially forming an aerial minefield, it's probably too late to evade. Whether they can be picked up on radar in advance is another big question. Best solution is likely to replace the humans with expendable clankers, like you said. Maybe jamming? If the drones are using radio links to coordinate, a jammer can flood those bands with noise. That can break command links, drone-to-drone links, or drone-to-ground links.
i just love your writing and detailed overview of both ukraine and iran wars (though obviously i wish they never happened which never get reported on by us msm. thank you for your insight and your service.
Thanks for the kind words, Verne. You should read my pre-2022 stuff. It was the most boring stuff in the world. After Russia's full-scale invasion, something snapped and I just started writing like I talk. lol
It works somehow.
effortlessly!
it definitely works. as a non-wonk, i enjoy both yours and shankar narayan's geopolitical assessments of this current shitstorm, mostly self-inflicted to boot.
I wasn’t aware that jellyfish can fly.
With a big enough trebuchet...
Yup. NATO and America NEED Ukraine 🇺🇦 to survive the next few decades. What is “alien jellyfish “ to the big powers is Tuesday to the Ukrainian Defenders.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🌻💛💙
Thank you for this.
The US I believe promoted the F35 to be such a vehicale capable of being connected to smaller semi autiomous UAV's.
No reason why a larger and more sophisitciacted UAV could not take on the role of an F35.
Iran did convince the US's most advanced UAV, the Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel back in December 2011, to land in Iran much to the embarassement of the US. They proabably learned a lot from that capture. It was said to have great STEALTH features.
No question in my mind. This is what Sweden seems to wanting to sell with their Gripen. The Gripen is the brains and it has dozens of drones with it. That would just about kill any stealth achieved for other aircraft. And, I know enough to understan that with that distributed sight capability, it will not be that hard to have some suicidal drones designed specifically to attack. I don't accept that the US military is unaware of how easy this would be. I do thoroughly enjoy your articles and look forward to them. I always know I will a few good things.
I remember reading about the development of the algorithms in around the mid-ninties for modeling flocks when birds swarmed. Back then we did not have the technology to implement. Today we can. How do you defend against an EMP hardened swarm? My understanding is that if you get up about a hundred drones, it becomes impossible to avoid. Now make the drones suicidal each eager to be the one to kill. What a nightmare for any military plane. Plus there are loitering drones that can stay up for well over a month reported. No doubt in my mind that is the lower limit of what has already been done. I just wish I had some confidence that the US was funding the people here with the imagination to do what can be done.
I think I speak for pilots everywhere when I say "Shit."
Your chain of reasoning is all too plausible. So what's the solution? Use one of those "Loyal Wingman" or other drones (when available) to scout for and destroy (or ECM) those drone formations? 🤔
I was just thinking through that logic. If I'm a fighter pilot and I see a "wall" of quadcopters essentially forming an aerial minefield, it's probably too late to evade. Whether they can be picked up on radar in advance is another big question. Best solution is likely to replace the humans with expendable clankers, like you said. Maybe jamming? If the drones are using radio links to coordinate, a jammer can flood those bands with noise. That can break command links, drone-to-drone links, or drone-to-ground links.
Great minds and all that. 😉
I saw 4th of July drone fireworks display last year. They were pretty coordinated. This isn't new technology.
https://share.google/xzbQ2HBFL4FvyK2dT
Great work Wes
Could they be dangling some type of 1000ft Fibre-optic antennas? 🤖⚡👾 📡 🪼🐝 🕸️💥