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esa-aardvark
25th Sep 2019, 09:25
Was getting ready for a trip to Bangkok & came across this
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1757814/the-democratisation-of-airpower (https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1757814/the-democratisation-of-airpower)
Mechta
25th Sep 2019, 18:53
Gwynne Dyer hit the nail on the head:
The big question that is finally going to be asked, in countries rich and poor, is why the air forces insist on buying ultra-expensive manned aircraft instead of flocks, swarms and fleets of small, cheap, disposable unmanned vehicles. The truth is that air forces are run by pilots, and they like to fly planes (sic), but what happened in Saudi Arabia last week will finally give the civilian authorities arguments that the aviators cannot resist or ignore.
racedo
25th Sep 2019, 20:01
The big question that is finally going to be asked, in countries rich and poor, is why the air forces insist on buying ultra-expensive manned aircraft instead of flocks, swarms and fleets of small, cheap, disposable unmanned vehicles. The truth is that air forces are run by pilots, and they like to fly planes (sic), but what happened in Saudi Arabia last week will finally give the civilian authorities arguments that the aviators cannot resist or ignore.
There is a scene in Matrix2 where you had thousands of "drones" all flying about inside the main building the humans were in. Reality is swarms of something similar that could be released airborne from something like cluster missiles and could stay airborne for an hour or two would provide reasonable amount of defence.
Of course the next requirement will be a missile that produces an EMT burst before a secondary missile heads in and so on and so on.
The only people getting rich will be directors of arms manufacturers and taxpayer will get done to them what always happens.
ETOPS
25th Sep 2019, 20:43
The article mentions the Iranian Qasef 2 UAV but over on the Mil forum they are showing wreckage from the Quds 1 cruise missile. Very different weapons and no sign of the Qasef 2 having been used..........
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1004x756/annotation_2019_09_18_215408_3e356f054bfdb51d308b07a565c8c06 42a7097e4_3638c7e8d4e7e4b6080caed7ba78be0cdb0ad284.jpg
Visionary writers would do well to remember that far from being a scene from a science fiction movie - the raid on Saudi was actually entirely reminiscent of V1 attacks on London some 75 years ago.
Mechta
26th Sep 2019, 00:02
Visionary writers would do well to remember that far from being a scene from a science fiction movie - the raid on Saudi was actually entirely reminiscent of V1 attacks on London some 75 years ago.
The accuracy with which the oil refinery tanks were hit was something the V1's designer's could only have dreamed of achieving.
hunterboy
26th Sep 2019, 03:55
One would have thought they would be deploying GPS jamming equipment near to strategic assets?
Mechta - 75 years is a long time to dream. It’s not that extraordinary really is it?