Search results

Now you are clowning for your politics. Of all the western corporations, it's not the MIC who pioneered outsourcing to China, if anything those are legally restricted in doing it, unlike many others.

If there were many, it would be impossible to hide due to soldiers missing from units. We know for a fact that certain very untrustworthy and malicious people were trying to make a hoopla of embassy guards and the like to cause political unrest about "boots on the ground", and as such, i...

Do these other nations have names? Is there any evidence that it's USA that's stopping them from acting on that bloodlust? And that remaining a threat does take a lot of military funding. If it was true, it would be exactly what Russia did in Ukraine for previous decades. Yet neither USA nor...

Yes, it is. Protecting them from who? Space aliens?

Because staying in one spots really makes you immune to these things... They can relocate after shooting much like SPGs, some can even move when shooting unlike SPGs, they have a rate of fire in hundreds of rounds per barrel and ammo reserve in thousands I thought we were talking about small...

Not everyone is Russia, forbidding crippled units from withdrawing to reform :D In case i was not clear enough, the point of SPAAGs is to shoot down the drones, not to soak their attacks with their sheer size. The Earth being fucking round is your citation, radio horizon, have you heard of it...

Depends on whose standards, but as you can see, it's not anything juicier than whatever multi million dollar vehicles carrying the infantry normally. In which case they are no longer an effective unit anyway. No more than several armored vehicles in the battalion, possibly less than one...

So how is that different from an ordinary motorized or mechanized infantry battalion? A few of decent AA systems can let the battalion safely deploy over 5-15 kilometers depending on the model and terrain. Look how much juicy tech a battalion has by default. If you add 4 or 8 SPAAGs, it's not a...

In terms of the costs of training and equipping a western style infantry battalion with weapons and vehicles, it's little money. Battalion level. As in added to every line battalion. They can counter drones correctly. Might wanna stick them on a MRAP, armored car or 8x8 APC for frag...

Such small caliber guns have coverage ranges of a kilometer or two, who said anything about concentration? If the enemy has airstrikes, masses of artillery and shit available to spam at every .50 AA with some electronics strapped to it, drones are the least of your problems. What do you think i...

Jeeeez, ever heard of this concept known as "combined arms"? If the infantry can't have any vehicles or even towed weapons in 2-3km of it, that means they are probably recon or special forces, and if there are drones over them, that means they screwed up and their mission is over because that...

Doable with modern targeting. They don't have a smaller target profile than a missile while being many times slower, so they are an easier target than that, while anti-missile systems for armored vehicles are exiting prototype phase, and anti-missile systems for ships are old news. Grenade...

This ain't bugs bunny show, shooting nets, with what range? Bullets can damage rotors just fine. Nets and cages can stop them from getting small HEAT warheads close enough to pierce armor, but for protecting soft targets that's useless against frag.

Yeah, unless EM weapons against low end drones get good enough, it's gonna be either return to battalion level SPAAGs like in WW2, or upgrading the autocannon turret or machinegun RWS of common armored vehicles into the same.

Infantry and similarly physical jobs are the absolutely worst roles to have military women, no question about that. Policing maybe, if you need women to search civilian ones, otherwise there are no practical reasons for it outside of total war that already made all the young fit men unavailable...

Some of these would reduce the count of eligible voters too if taken out, so percentage turnout would not necessarily change to be lower at all. Except with massively changed proportion of the tiers. That's not what National Guard in USA does. That's what third world armies do, like, say...

It happens rarely but i will agree, that's one of few services that western governments aren't fucking up badly so far. Though in Poland, which is known to have a good system on a budget, most of it is local government funded volunteer units, numbering around 230k people, while central...

Wage vs household income, dude, don't try this with me, it's tiring. Job for internal security, do sting ops if need be. Last resort, useless for sneaky and borderline shit. Inb4 massive lobbying on specific lines and conditions of franchise. No guarantee bullshit will happen there, but i...

Paper will take everything. But that in turn would mean little "turnover", few percent of people vote. City state with line must go up policy and rich people attraction vs normal medium country. You should know better than try to compare that. Next thing i know you will claim Luxemburg is a...

Technological changes mean the professional military system has to stay one way or another, even in early industrial age it was the officers being the military leaders, though a lot of manpower was needed below them. Now? A year is not really enough to even git gud at commanding a tank...