April 17Apr 17 Wonder how they simulated EW in that war game Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
April 17Apr 17 Presumably they could just use EW as is since it isn't (directly) lethal anyway.That article is massively overstated (or perhaps more accurately, doesn't note the problems with Ukraine's approach) but NATO not adapting doctrine shouldn't be any surprise to anyone who followed the Ukrainian 'counter'offensive and the very useful feedback and suggestions made by NATO trainers and analysts*. Which made it pretty clear they only really wanted to learn stuff from Ukraine that they want to learn, when necessary lessons are very often the ones you don't already want to learn.*Just drive around the minefields, bro lieber. The solution to your armoured assault columns getting blatted since they can only proceed along narrow corridors is... to put even more of them into those narrow corridors. Just like the Russians did so successfully north of Kiev. Put more troops in bigger groups into the kill zones. No diversionary attacks, concentrate everything in one place. And the all time classic from the British MoD: progress is slow due to pro Russian shrubbery. If those had failed of course it would have been 'should have used smaller groups and diversionary attacks' instead...
April 29Apr 29 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/21/ecuador-us-boat-strike-survivorsLuckily Blue Team gets away with stuff like this with a shrug. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
July 13Jul 13 Author TWZKamikaze Drone Boats Used By U.S. In Combat For The First...After being the key to Ukraine running the Black Sea Fleet out of Crimea, the Pentagon made its first kamikaze drone boat strike.
July 14Jul 14 20 hours ago, Gfted1 said:TWZKamikaze Drone Boats Used By U.S. In Combat For The First...After being the key to Ukraine running the Black Sea Fleet out of Crimea, the Pentagon made its first kamikaze drone boat strike.The problem, of course, is that eventually everyone else will have these same things too, including the Iranians who will use them against our big, fancy, and very expensive warships at sea.
July 14Jul 14 Author ^While it wasnt a USV, the same concept proved very effective almost 26 years ago: USS Cole bombing - Wikipedia
July 14Jul 14 3 hours ago, Gfted1 said:^While it wasnt a USV, the same concept proved very effective almost 26 years ago: USS Cole bombing - WikipediaExcept that they didn't sink the Cole. These modern drone boats, however, have enough explosive yield to sink major warships.On the flip side, though, these Iranian targets didn't have any meaningful ship-based defences, whereas our naval vessels do have pretty decent close-in defensive systems. Edited July 14Jul 14 by kanisatha
8 hours ago8 hr Author Lockheed Martin’s Morfius X-Rotor built to fry 50 enemy drones in one flightSweet.
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