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re: Speculate on capabilities the US military has that the public hasn’t seen
Posted on 8/20/25 at 3:51 pm to weagle1999
Posted on 8/20/25 at 3:51 pm to weagle1999
I have a nephew that designs weapons systems for the military. He was swamped with work and they were on his arse to come up with something new, so while on a flight, he quickly sketched out something ridiculous and completely insane just to shut them up for awhile.
They want it.
They want it.
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Posted on 8/20/25 at 3:58 pm to HeadCall
quote:Pretty much but with nanophotonic film. The tech isn't classified but 'officially' it isn't possible yet on a scale larger than a few inches.
Are they like a wrap you would put on a car?
and with the drone discussions going on in this thread, I'll also add that our more capable advanced drones become even more terrifying when they're not visible to the human eye.
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:01 pm to LemmyLives
Interest in that kind of program is quickly withering on the vine, and it needs to.
The amount of money that goes into those programs to yield zero real world difference is staggering.
The amount of money that goes into those programs to yield zero real world difference is staggering.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:04 pm to LemmyLives
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It was supposed to be nearly a carbon copy of an Italian DDG that is already in the water, and our defense establishment managed to change at least 40% of the ship, extending build times, exploding the budget, and ... getting rid of the main gun. Completely stupid, and we do it over, and over.
You aren’t wrong generally, but you’re confusing DDGx with the Constellation class frigates we’re building that are based on the Italian FREMM’s
DDGx is a Flight I and II Burke replacement since the Zumwalts were such an unmitigated disaster
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 4:05 pm
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:08 pm to notiger1997
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People have made comments about how far we are behind in drone warfare because of what has been seen with Russia/Ukraine.
We had bad arse drones during the Iraq war that were being controlled by people in Florida and could fire missiles and such. No telling what all we have now, but I’m sure it’s much more advanced than most people realize.
The drones that we are sending to Ukraine is also just the tech that we are willing to export. As far as world wide drone sales are concerned, we are way behind other nations like Turkey. The Fiber Optic drones have obviously been a step up from the wireless drones we saw in the first two years of the war. But again this is just the stuff that we are willing to export and are ok with them being reverse engineered. There is no telling what our true drone capabilities really are unless we get into a peer to peer conflict.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 4:11 pm to Nigel Farage
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There is no telling what our true drone capabilities really are unless we get into a peer to peer conflict.
Yep.
With the way we fight wars, I’m not sure how much we really need to smaller drones in big numbers.
We can just launch cruise missile from subs and ships and drop whatever we want from our jets and choppers.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:36 pm to awestruck
This is such a fantastic idea. Load up a bunch of missiles and bombs with the common cold virus and they’d be in quite the pickle.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:41 pm to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
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If Order 1776 issued All Chick Fil As engage secret rooftop cannons to spray alien ships with honey mustard sauce.
What if the aliens attack on a Sunday?
frick!
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:43 pm to TigerMond84
Still wouldn't keep them far enough away.
How about we demagnetize them.... we got anything that'll disrupt electrons?
How about we demagnetize them.... we got anything that'll disrupt electrons?
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:54 pm to Great Plains Tiger
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Rods from God.
Very cool idea but uniquely unuseful against space and air based targets.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:43 pm to Nevada_Tiger
And while we work on this stuff, which is good, China is working on a bioweapon that will kill anyone that is not an Asian.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:52 pm to northshorebamaman
Weird because 99% of people can’t find a copperhead in a 20 year old meme, seems like we could have figured this out by now. Call Realtree.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 7:58 pm to weagle1999
50 pullups and 100 pushups in 5 minutes
Posted on 8/21/25 at 7:49 am to notiger1997
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Yep.
With the way we fight wars, I’m not sure how much we really need to smaller drones in big numbers.
We can just launch cruise missile from subs and ships and drop whatever we want from our jets and choppers.
go read tom clancy the bear and the dragon
essentially china is attacking russia over a huge gold and diamond deposit in the book. We know its going to happen and we side with the russians
we deploy drones and watch from 30k feet while the drone loiters, they draw in a full line of tanks and other armor and the drones launch thousands of smaller drones that simply attack and destroy each piece of armory in the convoy destroying a whole brigade in a matter of seconds all done from a screen hundreds of miles away
in the book the russians are shocked.....well that is basically what we have and have had for a while. now we have true hypersonic missles, rail guns, laser, ability to cloak drones while they hover through skins, stealth drones, drones so small they look like insects, drone swarms controlled a mother ship like i talked about etc etc
we wouldnt use them unless we have too. they are working on drone jets that are controlled by a "mother" jet amongst a bunch of shite.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 8:07 am to awestruck
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How about we demagnetize them.... we got anything that'll disrupt electrons?
This is the way
Posted on 8/21/25 at 9:16 am to LookSquirrel
I suspect a lot of the UFOs we've had reported over the last couple decades were ours.
I suspect we have this triangle shaped one and a smaller spherical one, but I'm not sure what weapons platforms we have associated with them.
Further, I strongly believe that the drones that were appearing over the US eastern seaboard last year were ours and were looking for something.
I suspect we have this triangle shaped one and a smaller spherical one, but I'm not sure what weapons platforms we have associated with them.
Further, I strongly believe that the drones that were appearing over the US eastern seaboard last year were ours and were looking for something.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 9:25 am to Raleigh Tiger
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I have a nephew that designs weapons systems for the military. He was swamped with work and they were on his arse to come up with something new, so while on a flight, he quickly sketched out something ridiculous and completely insane just to shut them up for awhile.
They want it.
After the nuclear bomb was developed people were trying to think of uses for nuclear power. Richard Feynman proposed nuclear powered airplanes. He was joking. The US government issued a patent for the idea under Feynman's name and the US and Russia tested the idea with actual nuclear planes. It turns out the idea really is batshit crazy because of the radiation emissions. No surprise.
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