Nobody said that though, it's just aknowledgement that a B2 wouldn't have had to rely on a 'major security failure' allowing you to literally ship it into the country unopposed.
Not realizing B-2s are coming your way is a major security failure as well. Unless youre thinking B-2s movements from base to base and their logistical train arent tracked.
Its been 11 years since ISIS started spamming the internet with their drone attack videos. Might want to let people know how easily countered these things are so they can finally get around to developing those defenses.
This is why you're retarded, there's no equivalence between losing track of a B-2 between it's hangar and your airspace and a foreign intelligence agency shipping attacks around your country like Amazon.
Theres 21 of the things. You can bet your ass Russia and China know damn well what bases they are and their movements between them.
You cant keep saying these are novelties that will be easily be countered when its been 11 years since their inception and their use and effectiveness has only increased. Reality is not matching your thinking.
That's actually correct for once and a big reason why B-21 is what it is, but you're still deliberately missing the point; tracking trips between bases on public shows of force isn't the same as tracking stealth aircraft as they penetrate air defenses. F-35 squadrons get tracked between their bases too, they've still had their way with very dense AD environments in recent years, and B-2s are still supposed to be significantly more difficult to detect in terms of raw radar and IR signatures. Just knowing where stealth bombers are based does not save you from them doing tanker leapfrog from outside drone/missile range into your ADZ to dump a bunch of LO cruise missiles into an area you will not be able to predict.
An overlooked part of this. A mortar smuggled in the same way for instance would work fantastically as well, the primary difference is that drones are easier to operate over wireless connections and more precise while being more expensive and with far less firepower for the weight and volume. Now using a drone as a forward observer, possibly even fitted with a laser designator for guided mortar shells, with an automated remote control mortar system concealed in a vehicle or building, that would be the best way to launch such an attack in regards to maximum firepower on target. The firing report could certainly be an issue compared to the far more silent launch and possible jinking path of a drone, but this can be mitigated to an extent depending on the situation, and it's a lot harder to shoot down incoming mortar shells than drones.
I know a Black Hawk pilot who served in Afghanistan who, when I asked him if he wished he was an Apache pilot, said “Why? The Black Hawk can do pretty much anything the Apache can”.
99% of polled pilots will prefer their own aircraft to any other. Just how it works, no matter how shit the aircraft.
iirc the EL/M-2080 could be used as a direct energy weapon according to some sources
cavalry still exist, they just dont ride horses anymore
unless we are talking about large long-range drones (bayraktar, reaper, heron TP), these swarm attacks are a lot more feasible, and even then u won't have the same numbers
can't u launch a cruise missile off a helicopter?
SPIW was a bunch of money thrown at the wall that eventually gave us the 40mm grenade family. Ridiculous how we got there, but kino nonetheless. Probably my favorite 40mm grenade launcher has to go to the M79, the bloop tube.
They can and they have, helicopter launched Penguin missiles have done some very impressive things in the past and I always kinda assumed that NSM would eventually be spun off in that direction since it's the rough successor to the Penguin in some ways. But this Red Wolf stuff seems less intended to compete with contemporary cruise missiles and more intended as a more versatile kind of multi-purpose weapon. It feels more like the newer MALD developments than a pure missile; a modular body with different configurations that do both drone and missile things.
Honestly we don't know if they're keeping it or not. I've read articles saying they are and they aren't. If they are though, if anything, they might just put long 155mm shells in it that are unguided but fit the loader. They might have a rocket in the back to give it some extra range. The fact is though they invested a fuck ton in the AGS, it works, it just needs ammo to feed it. That said, they might not. Could just be a preliminary picture I found.
I haven't seen this image till now but it would seem like the writing is on the wall and AGS is dead dead dead.
Yeah... just look at it bro. Its gone. On the plus side, it's going to be even more stealthy with none of those hull protrusions. Now they just need to replace the 30mm with the 57mm Bofors it was always meant to have
I say chuck the old USS Vesuvius style dynamite guns on it, muzzles flush with the deck for maximum stealth. Sneak up to coastline full of pirates or some shit in the middle of the night, launch a massive barrage of heavy shells with no warning using pneumatic cannons, then sail away like nothing happened. That tactic worked against the Spanish in Cuba, should bring it back for the lols. Or maybe use electromagnetic launchers to launch big tubes of explosives with limited report/flash, then they can pretend all that railgun research was actually worth something.
A very ironic element of this is that Russia has long toyed with containerized cruise missiles (Club-K, IIRC), and various nations have raised huge stinks over the entire idea of large container ships with secret Russian cruise missiles moving around international ports. And then this happens.
It's more likely that it's one of those projects that have gone into either dormancy due to some obstacle or priorities have shifted towards a different doctrine. That said, if there's a way to introduce it, it would be by having it drop bombs over a target.
I don’t think it’s the norm to keep large bombers in hangers, B-2 excepted. The amount of hanger space you would need would be impossible, look at Barksdale or Minot AFB. We park all of our B-52s outside, I assume it’s the same for the B-1 fleet.