The future is drones AND artillery working together, if you think “drone beat artillery” like “paper beat rock” you aren’t understanding this from the right mindset at all.
You have to think of this as you are fighting against a highway-speed-capable armored 155mm howitzer somewhere 20km+ away connected and communicating with drones hunting you.
The measly munitions drone carry pale in comparison to a 155mm shell, so the drone is best used to spot the target…
If there is anything I am sure about it is that the children of politicians are largely useless.
Statistically it is a far superior choice to literally pick a random person off the street.
How about the Abrams getting PERCH systems to launch switchblade drones? That one is straight out of C&C Generals.
They are unarguably are, in one recent instance a .50 cal robot obliterated a Russian APC at point blank range, in another one held a position on the frontline for over a month.
Obviously they do not replace humans, but when used in the right ways they are extremely effective.
The primary use of unmanned ground vehicles are for logistics especially logistics with explodey things it is very dangerous to ask a human to carry through a battlefield. If a UGV carrying a bunch of mortar rounds is hit by an FPV drone that sucks for the mortar crew that doesn’t get ammunition but it is unimaginably better than a human being driving a truck full of mortar rounds being hit by one.
The next most useful use of unmanned ground vehicles are for casualty evacuation under fire and under conditions too risky for humans to try.
The third most useful is as a weapon.
So yes this is scary but honestly a human with a gun is still far more terrifying. The broader future of these big derpy rolling ground robots are disaster response and lifesaving applications, they are useful for war too but under very specific human coordinated contexts.
Based on how willing those powers have been to sit by and watch the Palestinian Genocide, I think they have been sufficiently brought to heel or vice versa have brought the US to heel to the point that a shocking silence has already prevailed.
The ducks already had to be brought in line for the Palestinian Genocide, this hardly feels like a speedbump in comparison for a lot of countries in the middle east I suspect.
It also might honestly be that as angry as the rest of the world is, the Ukrainian war has re-emphasized how far ahead US military power and doctrine is especially in dynamic environments and OPEC just doesn’t have the basic military capability to counterbalance. Seeing Russia claim to send SAMs and associated crews to Venezuela as if Russia even has enough air defenses to defend Moscow… It doesn’t help that a lot of the best equipment Saudi Arabia and such have were bought from the US and neither China nor Russia can really claim to be on the level US and European militaries are at in sophistication and actual war experience (though obviously this is variously true and changing at a very rapid rate along many dimensions see the EDGE group and such, I doubt this is the full answer).
Or maybe, and this is MOST likely, OPEC is just used to dealing with washed up dictators that are quickly outliving their usefulness to their supporting power structures around them and knows one way or another Trump has an expiration date so escalating conflict makes less sense than posturing to cut the US out of favorable positions and biding their time until the US has a change in rulers to someone more rationally bribable again. That is what I would do, these strikes and actions against Venezuela are politically unsustainable in the US because they are so blatantly wrong and outside domestic interests.
Important detail here, you are exactly right but this is why Trump is attacking Venezuela to push Venezuela OUT of the oil market and keep oil prices HIGH.
Oil wars are a game of musical chairs right now since this is the beginning of the very long drawn out end of oil.
Why do you think the Australians gave them away ?
Because they are getting newer Abrams tanks…?
…which is why Ukrainian battlefield commanders deployed Abrams tanks straight into the most intense flashpoint of the Ukrainian war at this moment?..?
Aksala-Dnalneerg is the resource rich border region in the far tundras of the north between Alaska and Greenland, it is largely undeveloped because no real estate developer has had the proper vision for it yet (a great flat low expanse with easy access to water).
Can’t we just fly Trump to a random ice covered rock and just hire some people to pretend it is Greenland and he can have a little senior assisted living situation inside Trump Castle in Newer New York City, Greenland safely isolated from the rest of us?
No VLS cells is such the perfect cherry on the turd.
In my opinion 1 cybertruck is an unfathomable amount I guess it depends.
You ever think about the fact that if we put our minds together and made funny clips of excited baby goats set to actually good classic rock go viral as a meme we could essentially disappear Kid Rock from search engines?
We could call the meme Kid Rock 2 and whenever anyone brings up Kid Rock 1 just mercilessly shit on it and say Kid Rock 2 is far better and Kid Rock 1 isn’t worth watching.
You are left holding the beer after the Russian who passed it to you is immediately blown up by a Ukrainian FPV quadcopter.
You take a sip of your free beer.
Texas is a deathcult desperately trying to fool people into thinking it is only just another shithole drowning in cruelty.
This NASA page has some really cool simple visualizations of how tides work. They are kind of strange in ways you don’t expect.
https://science.nasa.gov/moon/tides/
Now think about pouring a bucket of water out on a table. It’s easier to slide the water around on the table rather than lift it directly upwards. When the Moon’s gravity pulls at Earth, the water doesn’t float outward, it just gets pushed and squeezed around on the globe, directed by both gravitational pull and other forces, until it ultimately ends up bulging out on the side closest to the Moon and the side farthest away.
I don’t know how to upload gifs to lemmy but check them out on the NASA page they are very satisfying and cool and explain the science wonderfully!
How does the drone get to the battlefield? How do you protect those support crew? You have to consider that along with the rapidity of artillery response.