Japan is sending engineers to Ukraine’s frontline — and they’re coming back with $2,500 weapon

That statement fits any point in time for the last 150 years pretty much everywhere in the world

Yeah, not sure that food programs would have prevented Russia invading Ukraine.

AND THOSE WHO USED TO BE ALIVE

This sounds like it could be sung by la dispute and would fit so well.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone skip past the atrocities of either world wars. Especially WW2.

One of the interesting bits of the Cold War and the Space Race was it drove technological innovation quite hard, but with a lot fewer dead people and blown up infrastructure.

Fanta, actually, to steal your analogy

Same in Russia. No concrete shelters for planes on most airfields. But a lot villas for high commands.

Great for the defense budget. My buddy did tours in Iraq. He said the churn was intentional. MIC $. GI blood

Source on aircraft losses, I have been able to come up with concrete numbers

US Navy already patented a flying EMP in 2020 https://patents.google.com/patent/US11378362B2/en

At least for now small drones tend to have shorter ranges so unless the ship is close to shore it would be hard for it to be hit by lots of small drones. The problem for ships right now is naval drones which can be about the size of a jetski full of a explosives. Just one or two is enough to sink a ship. People like to joke around a lot about how Russia lost a bunch of warships to a country with no navy but at the same time US warships are staying out of the strait of Hormuz. Ships are so expensive and take so long to make and right now they're incredibly vulnerable. It might even give China pause before attacking Taiwan.

Feels like [VT fuze](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze) flaks would do a number on them. Problem is that most ships went the rocket interceptor path in the last half a century. Seems they'll need to go back. That and birdshots.

Radio jamming.

NNEMP weapons are, in fact, the main approach the US has been investigating to handle drone swarms. See something like [THOR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THOR_(weapon)).

And those more expensive drones also have to be bigger and heavier to have that shielding - increasing costs, reducing the likelihood of them being used in large drone swarms etc.

So what if the navy has a microwave? I have one in my kitchen too!

There's a sci-fi short on Youtube that basically covers this. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU)

Ryan Mcbeth is good, but did he discuss hybrid drone attacks? Ukraine has launched missiles and I believe also drones from their marine drones. Also, the 100Km range assumes that the carrier group has active AWACS or similar high altitude systems. A ship-mounted RADAR mounted at 150meters(490 or so foot) has a horizon at 50.48Km(31.something miles) and may be able to spot something low-flying a little further out, if it can differentiate it from choppy waves. Coastal areas also brings new issues. Any little islet or old oil rig or whatever may be a launch site for drones, which means the carrier either has to stay far out to sea, or they have to 'secure' all those points. And that small fishing boat on the horizon that surveillance says carries no suspicious-looking equipment? Could be towing underwater drones. (google Operation Title from WWII when a boat from the 'Shetland Bus' was towing a pair of mini subs to attack Tirpitz with. ) Sonar won't spot the underwater drones as long as they're being towed. And if they later travel just below the waves they will still be difficult to spot.

Yes, even underwater carrier groups have crazy good protection, active and passive sonar, e***** attack subs, asw helos, etc etc... What about stealth mother drones that carry smaller drones and act as a relay for the smaller ones?...

Perhaps the idea is to overwhelm the defenses with lots and lots of little targets, overloading or distracting the analysis software and human operators so giving the real payload a better chance of getting through, such as a missile, sea drone, or torpedo. Hundreds of small drones cluttering up radar so a big drone or missile can't be accurately targeted by defense weapons. The swarm might not even be armed with explosives, but equipped with reflectors to give them a larger radar profile, or reflectors designed to scatter the radar. Imagine five hundred small drones with radar reflectors, what's it going to look like on a screen? One big fuzzy cloud? It just occurred to me that a massive shock wave might be effective against a swarm if an EM pulse doesn't work. If you detect a swarm approaching and it's still far away enough, launch a missile designed to produce an intense shock wave. Or launch four large drones carrying a ginormous net 🤪 Or launch a bunch of drones that spray raw petrol in the path of the swarm, and then ignite it, AKA fuel-air explosion.

Lol, you know what’s a c**** countermeasure though? Mirrors. What’s a laser going to do against a reflective coating?

Because China is extremely vulnerable to being blockaded and having critical infrastructure bombed, and if China did something like that, the American people would be united and have the political will to do that.

Well their 2022 invasion is the reason Sweden and Finland finally joined NATO...

Still in the same time UK have developed laser weapon specificly tailored to counter drones with each shot cost $13. It's more like the American military industrial complex learnt nothing

> China's economy (PPP adjusted) is roughly on par no it's not. If you're going to talk about China's economy then you need to do a little more research into their economy. Specifically what is currently preventing them from going into economic collapse. China and the US are more self-sustainable than most countries, but China cannot survive without the US market keeping their economy afloat. The US is responsible for roughly 20% of the exports out of China, so China would go into a massive deflation within their country which leads to much harsher job losses than inflation. EVs, batteries, and chinese consumer products throughout the world would plummet(70-90% decrease likely) because China would be forced to gut excess inventory to attempt to salvage their economy. Europe and Asia would benefit greatly temporarily due to the economic turmoil but the tanking of the Yuan would lead to excessive Recessions in most of the world. The US wouldn't face most of these issues because of how the dollar is a global currency supported by dozens of countries own banks as well as being the primary currency for almost all fossil fuels and rare earth minerals. The US would face huge amounts of inflation but their biggest threat would by far be their populous, which China hasn't had to worry about in modern times due to their human rights violations.