Recent content by FormerEnlisted

Good. Hopefully the opportunity isn't wasted. Some secondary schools have small firing ranges in their basements. Why not refurbish them? Why not have drone obstacle courses operating on soccer fields in the evening as an approved graduation credit mechanism. Why not found new drone sports...

More like a structural mist. First round releases at 100m, second 75m, etc. As long as any part of it touches the propellers it turns the entire cloud into string it wraps around itself. Its a similar principle to chainsaw gloves/pants. It could be fired high and then settle on an area. This...

We need to start producing something like this at the federal level. 40mm carrier. Anyone who can commercialize this will stand beside Maxim, Colt, and Garand as a weapons designer. High-Strain-Rate Kinetic Fouling Matrix 40mm-deployable, Counter-UAS (C-UAS) payload utilizing a Non-Newtonian...

The best part is that the supply chain is still flush with it, so its something that can be trained with intensely without rationing worries.

And there is no reason to believe that our understanding of depletion is the same as the Pentagon's. They have always stockpiled enough material for a 2 front war. When people leak that inventories are down XX%, that doesn't refer to the entire arsenal, just the surplus inventory which has been...

https://www.arabtimesonline.com/news/petty-food-thefts-become-symbol-of-irans-deepening-economic-hardship/ Things sounds pretty bad on the ground over there. "TEHRAN, Aug 6 : Petty thefts involving basic food items such as bread, cheese and meat are becoming a symbol of Iran’s worsening...

If the missiles can't be destroyed in the air, and the government can't guarantee the IRGC/Houthis will abide by an agreement, the only remaining option is to destroy the launchers on the ground. Iran is walking an extremely fine line here. If they aren't able to cement an agreement before...

The most effective (and only) military service Trump ever completed was to Iran. Somehow they went from being subject to full nuclear inspections, under extreme sanctions, with permanent drought and overall decline, to becoming a new regional power broke with a toll bridge over Hormuz and de...

What a disaster this has been. Somehow every deal is worse than the last one. Next up they are getting McDonalds franchises and a free trade agreement.

I agree. I won't say anymore about my drone idea other than the underpinning principle is that we should have CPU and MCU supply chains (from foundry to assembly) under our own sovereign control as an absolute hyper-priority. I think the integration issue right now is that normal ground based...

I think fiber optic controls simplify things greatly because there is a direct link for commands. Not that it is simple, just that the organic evolution we have seen tends toward simplicity as a means of defeating EW countermeasures. Some models have self healing mesh networks driven by a...

Thank you for the explanation. Its good to be reminded of the CPU reality behind the scenes. Regarding timeframes: we aren't beholden to that same schedule or diplomatic inertia. If being a middle power means anything, it should be the ability to bridge between disparate power centres. If we...

Doesn't exist in Canada. For all of the bemoaning over the decades about Avro's closure, its amazing to see the people in charge not recognize the extraordinary opportunity in front of us right now. FPV (among others) drone manufacture is a nascent war technology of which we can seize an...

Sounds like they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and learn to code. Or use this brief window of peace to radically modernize their industrial approach. To address the glaring issue mentioned here: Treat this problem the same way the Germans handled their early radar sets: plug...

Ukraine is having great success with the cottage industry drone model. Maybe some type of Drone Economic Relief Benefit could be offered to people who want to switch careers and work from home? Have them trained on how to assemble a particular model to spec, ship them components en masse, and...