The X-47B Drone Has Landed on a Carrier, And War May Never Be the Same

[HOLLYWOOD]

If I were the opposition... I would critically invest, research, and development in 2 areas:

1.) Electronic Jamming ECM/ECCM
2.) Targeted EMP weapons

If successful, you'll be seeing them drop like flies.

 

[Nobexliberty]

If I was the opposition... I would critically invest, research, and development in 2 areas:

1.) Electronic Jamming ECM/ECCM
2.) Targeted EMP weapons

If successful, you'll be seeing them drop like flies.

That is how I will become emperor of the Swedish empire that spans the entire world.

 

[VoluntaryAmerican]

Aircraft carriers are obsolete for the exact reason that you can land a drone on one. In a real war, they would be gone in the first battle. Any enemy with any serious industrial capacity could slap together thousands of cheap, remotely-guided buzz-bombs and overwhelm ANY phalanx.

This was my thought too. Drones could easily be used as kamikazes, if their weapons systems fail in an all out war scenario.

 

[VoluntaryAmerican]

If I was the opposition... I would critically invest, research, and development in 2 areas:

1.) Electronic Jamming ECM/ECCM
2.) Targeted EMP weapons

If successful, you'll be seeing them drop like flies.

Install these around your houses. No police snoops.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Aircraft carriers are obsolete for the exact reason that you can land a drone on one. In a real war, they would be gone in the first battle. Any enemy with any serious industrial capacity could slap together thousands of cheap, remotely-guided buzz-bombs and overwhelm ANY phalanx.

Or tweak 100 year old technology to get close enough to shove a torpedo up their ass.

Annnnd this goes right here:

The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced

By MATTHEW HICKLEY

Last updated at 00:13 10 November 2007

When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed.

At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders.

That is the theory. Or, rather, was the theory.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-military-chiefs-red-faced.html#ixzz2YlWkpzWt

 

[Pericles]

"War may never be the same?" WTF kind of bullshit is this?

War yesterday = killing & maiming people + destroying lots of stuff
War today = killing & maiming people + destroying lots of stuff
War tomorrow = killing & maiming people + destroying lots of stuff

Everything else is just details. "War may never be the same" my ass ...

Its all about fighting wars without using people to carry out orders. Machines feel no fear and have no conscience - the guys in the 5 sided rat cage think that is perfect.

"It is very easy for ignorant people to think that success in war may be gained by the use of some wonderful invention like the Atomic Bomb rather than by hard fighting and superior leadership." - GEN Patton

 

[AFPVet]

Skynet....

 

[Christian Liberty]

"War may never be the same?" WTF kind of bullshit is this?

War yesterday = killing & maiming people + destroying lots of stuff
War today = killing & maiming people + destroying lots of stuff
War tomorrow = killing & maiming people + destroying lots of stuff

Everything else is just details. "War may never be the same" my ass ...

I disagree. While war has always been hell, at least in the past you could pick your targets. Now you pretty much have to kill innocent people in order to fight any kind of war, even a defensive one.

I believe it was better in the past, for much the same reasons Rothbard does.

 

[Aratus]

Skynet....

its a bit closer
its less sci~fi

 

[Occam's Banana]

I disagree. While war has always been hell, at least in the past you could pick your targets. Now you pretty much have to kill innocent people in order to fight any kind of war, even a defensive one.

I believe it was better in the past, for much the same reasons Rothbard does.

And this would contradict what I said ... how, exactly?