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2026-05-04 18:10 UTC

@GeofCox @ChrisMayLA6 Hm. I’m a bit sceptical of the revolutionary drones argument when it comes to sea power. China hasn’t gone to all the trouble of building its navy to protect its forward bases and shepherd its shipping for nothing.

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  • @BashStKid From one of the articles: "The weaponized drone has utterly transformed today’s battlefield. It is the modern-day equivalent of the machine gun of World War I... A $1,000 drone can destroy a roughly $4.5 million T-90 tank... Iran can continue to mass-produce drones at a fraction of the cost of the weapons being produced by the other side..." I think even sea power may now be marginal in the sense that it can no longer be decisive - isn't that what is in fact happening now to the US navy in the Persian Gulf ? It was in the other article I think that the US has already used nearly half it's stock of viable anti-drone missiles - every one of which takes many months to manufacture, at huge cost. "Despite the president’s assertion that “We have all the cards,” almost the exact opposite is true." @ChrisMayLA6

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