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EltonJohn69

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121979568#Comment_121979568

wait till they start using the lasers….

RGARDINR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121979558#Comment_121979558

To be fair I wouldn't be surprised if it's in the works. Like why do a suicide bomb on a bus when you could have a few drones doing the same. Technically you could just have 1 terrorist and they have multiple drones set up. If there in the middle of say London you could technically have a drones go and hit Buckingham Palace, big Ben, Westminster all in the space of a few mins or seconds laced with explosives. I think we will see this happen and I say stuff like this is in the works. I say its just a matter of when sadly. Not just militaries are looking at what drones can do now since the conflict in Ukraine, you will have terrorist organisations looking big time into these and even your mad nutter type person.

RGARDINR

I honestly can see ships instead of mine ships just be drone ships with tons of sea borne drones in the ship. Imagine for example China put a ship in the mid Pacific and it had just sea borne drones say the likes that Ukraine have been using to launch that say could go up to 500 miles and attack for instance American reinforcements coming to say Taiwans aid. Just the drones in the mid Pacific on standby waiting for enemy ships to be in the vicinity and they go after them and try and sink them. Be carnage.

thomil

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121979914#Comment_121979914

I can't really see that happening anytime soon, perhaps not ever. A similar line of thinking was followed when the very first torpedo boats came along. There were actual torpedo boat carriers in the late 19th century, operating along the same principles that you just outlined, until it turned out that the concept just didn't work. By the time torpedo boats were truly oceangoing, they had morphed into what we now call a destroyer.

Those maritime drones are very powerful weapons, no doubt about that, but they're not really a deep-ocean weapon. They're small and likely wouldn't stand up to open ocean conditions very well. They're also not invisible to radar and sensors and when there's no land to mess around with radar returns, even small contacts can be picked up rather easily. A navy that's actually competent should be able to deal with this type of threat relatively easy in the open ocean.

That being said, they can be absolutely lethal in enclosed waters such as the Black Sea, or in narrow choke points such as the Bad el Mandeb, the Straits of Hormuz or the Malacca Strait. Not much space to maneuver, generally calm waters and lots of islands and local shipping to create a confused radar picture, not to mention an absolute cacophony on sonar. And I can see countries like the Philippines or Indonesia making use of them, as they generally lack the resources to effectively patrol their territorial waters with conventional warships. Having a couple dozen maritime drones available for each naval sector/district/whatever command could end up being a headache for any potential aggressors, with relatively little resource expenditure.

TheValeyard

UAF another strike

Edit: or more success from the same strike but different airfield?

https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1776253595819598179

RGARDINR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980080#Comment_121980080

Thank you well said. I shall take my claim back so.

ilkhanid

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121978858#Comment_121978858

Classroom indeed. Or worse-into a music venue or a football stadium. As is often the case in the worlds of war and terrorism, fiction is ahead of the reality. I believe '24' prophesied a terrorist attack on an urban target using a drone.

Hawkeye123

Well, the propagandists claim Irish reunification would cost 20 billion a year for 20 years and cause us a lot of hardship.

If that's true, the cost of unification of Ukraine would be astronomical. Besides, the EU would help us like they helped Germany. The president is there.

It wouldn't cost 1%of that anyway.

pixelburp

Bizarre story: a US city councillor, currently wanted for possessing sexually explicitly photos of a minor, has fled the country and signed up to fight with Russia.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/fugitive-former-us-city-councillor-enlists-with-russia-for-war-in-ukraine

EltonJohn69

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980360#Comment_121980360

he has just got himself a death sentence

Economics101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980327#Comment_121980327

This must be the most deranged post yet on this thread. What connection is there between Ukraine and the status of Northern Ireland?

nigeldaniel

Well, looks like my favourite youtube anti Putin channel will soon shut down. The 'dude' [not the name of his channel] is at the end of his nerve due to massive numbers of reports made against him. His sure the you know who's in Russia are to blame. I will miss him he was very entertaining guy. His is not the only channel on YouTube facing shut down.

zv2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980327#Comment_121980327

Apparently Ukraine is potentially very rich if the country develops its resources.

fly_agaric

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121979558#Comment_121979558

You (still) have to get the explosives, or make them.

The effectiveness and novelty of a drone "delivery system" with possibility for swarms of the things in future and potentially AI doing the flying/targetting etc. (that "slaughterbots" video from a few years ago, well before Ukraine war, comes to mind) does not change this and it seems to get overlooked sometimes.

That is still hard in Western/developed countries with decent police, intelligence etc. that will (usually) spot people trying to construct bombs.

Slava_Ukraine

Not heard anything yet but would give me great pleasure if that place was actually hit and those within destroyed.

Say my name

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980360#Comment_121980360

Birds of a feather.

Flock together.

ilkhanid

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980360#Comment_121980360

How can this be? 😲 Russia is totally opposed to any kind of sexual perversion.It's a good Christian country. So MAGA tells us.

aidanodr

Sort of obvious really .. doesnt surprise me anyway

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1776318586262634620

Hawkeye123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980859#Comment_121980859

Their greatest asset is their proximity to a potential trading partner like Russia. All they have to do is be nice and stop all this fascist nonsense.

Africa is now developing it's resources with the help of Russia so Ukraine can learn a lot from Africa.

aidanodr

More on these autonomous drones

To pull off one of its deepest strikes ever targeting Russia’s strategic industries, the Ukrainian government took a locally-made ultralight sport plane, swapped its manned controls for robotic controls and packed it with explosives.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/04/03/ukraines-new-factory-smashing-drone-is-a-90000-sport-plane-with-a-robot-at-the-controls/

FishOnABike

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121981506#Comment_121981506

Can I have some of those drugs? They must be truly mind bending!

Jinglejangle69

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121981492#Comment_121981492

While America sit by and do nothing.

The balance is shifting away from the West.

ToweringPerformance

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121981492#Comment_121981492

The weakness of the current US president as well as NATO as a whole is emboldening the China's, Russia's and Iran's of this world. China is watching the half arsed, half hearted efforts to back Ukraine and give then what they need to win and is taking notes. Zelensky has more patience than any man on the planet i don't know how he does it.

eire4

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121981521#Comment_121981521

No doubt. If anyone thought his previous post was deranged well then that one was totally unhinged from reality.

ilkhanid

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121981506#Comment_121981506

Fascist nonsense like defending themselves? Or maybe electing a Jewish president?

zv2

@Hawkeye123 " there is a very sizeable Russian majority in eastern Ukraine."

Hmmm…

https://twitter.com/LvivNightingale/status/1657421382794313731

Economics101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121981608#Comment_121981608

It's not the weakness of the current US president that is the problem, it's the outright treachery of the MAGA extremists in the House that is the problem.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121981608#Comment_121981608

The failure of America to supply aid to Ukraine is the fault of the Republicans (being led by the overtly Russia-friendly MAGA contingent) not Joe Biden. No amount of rhetoric can get past the simple maths that the Republicans currently control Congress, and they are th eones shooting down the various attempts at a new aid bill - not Biden.

jmreire

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121981506#Comment_121981506

Greatest asset, Really? You mean the Russia that is currently trying to cleanse Ukraine and its people off the face of the earth? Their safest and best trading partner is the one they will become a member of, and that's the EU, a process that's already underway. And of course, NATO ASAP.

Wibbs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121981506#Comment_121981506

The "potential trading partner" of the EU is of a magnitude more massive than anything Russia has to offer. Put it another way; look around your life and the things and services in it. How many are European/"Western"? How many are Russian? Feck all. At best we're looking at raw materials. Some of the oil/fuel/metals in your car, that sort of thing. Bugger all finished items. Well, none, unless you go out of your way to find them.

Thing is in Soviet days you could actually find finished items in the "West". Things like cars, watches, radios, cameras and the like. When I was a kid my dad bought a "Russian" portable radio. Still have it, still works too.👍️ For folks within the Soviet Union itself much of, if not most things, were actually made within the Soviet Union. From the kitchen table and chairs you sat down to eat breakfast, to the food on the plate, to the plate itself, to the wallpaper on the walls around you. Today? Eh… No.

Russia's biggest export market to Africa? Weapons. 👍️ Now African nations have been courted and fcuked over by pretty much everyone, especially in the coloniser days(Russia didn't need to import slaves, they had their own serfs, ditto with places like Poland. Why import, when you can grow your own?) and then Cold War 1, as both the Yanks(and flagging Euro empires)and the Soviets/Russians vied for influence, and are still being royally fcuked over, it seems only their "masters" change. A few connected Africans get coin, most get fcuked. Again.

Btw; What's a fascist? Define it please?