Honestly am glad the F-5 style jets are making a comeback in the west because of this little guy. Helps give a high low mix to a air force. Sometimes you just need a little plane, not a full on fighter to get the job done. Still seems quite capable though. Has a cannon, supersonic, decent radar, the whole package.
Eeehhh not a huge comeback as most of the West goes for something higher performance like a F-16, JAS-39, or even higher end.
So youve never handled a phone made in the last 2-3 years?
Once again Poland struts its superiority. They are going to have a multi level air force by the end, with the F-35 at the top, the F-16 making the core, and the FA-50 at the bottom acting as swarm filler, while the Soviet jets get retired.
Oh man, I'm not trying to be a dick here, in really not. But do you not know how much of your phone's processing power is coming from the cloud? Because I promise you, it's a lot
Uhh what? Yeah they all have some level of cloud nonsense on them now but the cpu/gpu on them are still quite powerful. Even if a cell phone style chip isnt enough you simply go a slight step up and use a laptop class cpu. Or another year comes and processors get my energy efficient and powerful as a whole.
Man, Screamers was a cool movie.
Speaking of relevant movies, I got one too
Then ECM gets better, DEW gets better, and smaller and cheaper interceptors get better.....
A Humvee is a late 1970s / early 1980s era vehicle... That's probably the best engine they had for it back then and just.... NEVER changed it (typical military procurement for you)
Yep, excellent movie and Winona Ryder is one of my 1990s actress crushes.
And yet some how the Houthis have absolutely embarrassed the US Navy and whatever western Europe can field for a navy in the red sea for most of the year. Even with all of our advanced tech and weapons to protect shipping they continue to sink ships and be a severe threat to anything transiting it.
You dont need a hopper to power a drone.
The Houthis have sunk... Two ships in over a year after firing hundreds of anti ship missiles, drones and suicide boats at them. Three to fourth more were hit and then abandoned.
Completely nonsense here. Houthis have had a dramatic impact on shipping volume in the red sea.
Turns out you don't need to sink every ship to effectively blockade, just sink enough that people know you can.
Outside of what was already said, the USN is designed to fight a conventional war. Counter-insurgencies, like against the Houthis, are a different story. Insurgencies are much harder to target, deter, and predict.
It's outright impossible without boots on ground and practically impossible with modern sensibilities and ideas about war having rules. Ancient people's were fairly adept at counter insurgency because they were willing to fight multiple conflicts over the course of decades or even centuries and hand out severe, disproportionate, some would say even savage or barbaric, consequences to rebels and anyone they suspected of being rebels.
So a small amount of inbred cave dwelling goat fuckers have caused significant global economic impact with a handful of drones and the most advanced military in the world is powerless to stop them short of committing god knows how many troops to invading them?
The effect is less a product of the drones and far more a product of bean counters. If less dangerous routes exist then why use the more dangerous one? And if other, safer, routes exist then why commit massive manpower to taking out a group that really isn't worth the trouble due to topographical and geological advantages and an ironclad ideology that will most likely take literal generations to beat out of them? Frankly even if a nation were to curbstomp the Houthis the massive expenditure of time and manpower would be far more to quell that ideological resistance than due to some material advantage that drones would possibly give them. Drones or no drones the Houthis biggest advantages are due to them having the homefield and a sympathetic/brow beaten local population and not due to numbers or materials.