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1. ᐃᓐ ᔓᒋᐠ ᐃᓐ ᕵᑲᐠ (itzpaquet@novo-atlantis.null.media)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 10:08:42 JST ᐃᓐ ᔓᒋᐠ ᐃᓐ ᕵᑲᐠ

   ukraine is using cardboard rc planes with bombs inside to take out parked russian fighter jets. they’re supplied by some australian company and cost only like 5k AUS. the western military industrial complex is completely taken aback that a useful weapon can be that cheap. amazing ukranian ingenuity! they say

   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 10:08:38 JST LS

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     • Ricotta :windmilloffriendship:
     @Moon @itzpaquet @Ricotta aren't Ukraine and hamas doing mostly drone stuff? And when's been the last time that a state actually win against guerilla tactics?
   • Ricotta :windmilloffriendship: (ricotta@yggdrasil.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 10:08:39 JST Ricotta :windmilloffriendship:

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     @Moon @itzpaquet That's why I advocate for dragoons on light dual sport motorcycles for use by militias.
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 10:08:39 JST Moon

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     @Ricotta @itzpaquet there's a ton of research in drone warfare but it doesn't seem to be deployed, I was seeing state of the art stuff being done in 2010 during my short, shameful stint in the defense industry.
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 10:08:40 JST Moon

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     @itzpaquet In 2002 the US military did a simulation exercise. One of their generals on the red team defeated the American army using motorcycles and shutter-light messaging, so they stopped the simulation, changed the rules on him and kept restarting it until the USA won.
     
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 10:08:41 JST Moon

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     @itzpaquet the military industrial complex in the USA is a jobs program and a prop for the economy, doesn't matter if the shit don't work.
   • ᐃᓐ ᔓᒋᐠ ᐃᓐ ᕵᑲᐠ (itzpaquet@novo-atlantis.null.media)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 10:08:41 JST ᐃᓐ ᔓᒋᐠ ᐃᓐ ᕵᑲᐠ

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     @Moon the reporting on it is pretty hilarious though. and the comments are like "well we don't have to do things like this because we have money so we should use it" there's a huge blind spot here and i love it.
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 10:28:06 JST LS

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     • Ricotta :windmilloffriendship:
     @Ricotta @itzpaquet @Moon large regular armies already couldn't win in Vietnam or in Afghanistan (and later, Afghanistan again). There's not one war the US has won since ww2.
   • Ricotta :windmilloffriendship: (ricotta@yggdrasil.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 10:28:07 JST Ricotta :windmilloffriendship:

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     @lain @itzpaquet @Moon It's not that they're mostly doing drone stuff, but they are using a lot of quadcopters and other small drones, and they're an absolute gamechanger.
     
     This is an area where large regular armies can't really compete, because they're held back by red tape, contracts, procurement, and all that usual bureaucratic nonsense, while smaller, more irregular forces can pretty much do whatever they want with whatever they can get.
   • leespringfield1903 (leespringfield1903@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 10:49:56 JST leespringfield1903

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     @lain @Moon @itzpaquet @Ricotta The Malayan Emergency.
     
     Or the current war in the Donbass where guerillas under the DPR and LPR are helping the Z and Wagnar and the Chechens root out the hohol spies.
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