jonlbs Posted Sunday at 08:44 PM Posted Sunday at 08:44 PM If you cant get the planes go for the pilots next. Passive intelligence could probably find the name and address of nearly every pilot in the US Military. Can't imagine what active intelligence could do. Send a kill squad (cartel? spies? poison? gangs? every scumbag has a price?) and no planes are taking off. If I'm thinking it, they probably are too? It's way easier to fight dirty.
icohftb Posted Sunday at 10:01 PM Posted Sunday at 10:01 PM 1 hour ago, jonlbs said: If you cant get the planes go for the pilots next. Passive intelligence could probably find the name and address of nearly every pilot in the US Military. Can't imagine what active intelligence could do. Send a kill squad (cartel? spies? poison? gangs? every scumbag has a price?) and no planes are taking off. If I'm thinking it, they probably are too? It's way easier to fight dirty. Not enough drones to target all of pilot social media influencers 4
Pooter Posted Monday at 06:19 AM Posted Monday at 06:19 AM 16 hours ago, pbar said: I hope the US Air Force is paying attention to this and has countermeasures in place. If the PRC attacks Taiwan and doesn't do the same thing here in CONUS, they would be fools. Doubtless there are already PRC agents in place given our lax border security and student visa program. Don’t worry Ellsworth is building sunshades for the B-21s, we’re g2g
HeyEng Posted Monday at 01:13 PM Posted Monday at 01:13 PM 16 hours ago, jonlbs said: If you cant get the planes go for the pilots next. Passive intelligence could probably find the name and address of nearly every pilot in the US Military. Can't imagine what active intelligence could do. Send a kill squad (cartel? spies? poison? gangs? every scumbag has a price?) and no planes are taking off. If I'm thinking it, they probably are too? It's way easier to fight dirty. During the height of the Cold War the Soviet war plan with Sweden was to send in Speznaz teams to kill Swedish fighter pilots! 1
Prosuper Posted Monday at 09:50 PM Posted Monday at 09:50 PM If I was an enemy commander I would try the same thing, except I would target every Tanker we have in Conus and make our bombers and fighters dependent landing for refuel. 1
disgruntledemployee Posted Tuesday at 04:27 PM Posted Tuesday at 04:27 PM Modern day sappers. Demonstrated, and now every base with aircraft on the ramp is a huge risk. Anti-drone tech/systems is where our R&D/Acquisition resources need to be focused and fast. And hard shelters, but those take a lot of space and if you leave the door open, it can still go boom. Z made a statement, and maybe the scale was set to what occurred, but what if his army was able to hit more bases, more planes, more radars/AA/Comms/Arty/drone stations/etc?
raimius Posted 22 hours ago Posted 22 hours ago Considering that these types of drones have relatively small payloads, we don't need to build shelters hardened against 500lb bombs. An enclosure that guarantees relatively low levels of protection and standoff would probably render FPV attacks mostly ineffective...and might actually be affordable.
McJay Pilot Posted 22 hours ago Posted 22 hours ago 12 minutes ago, raimius said: …and might actually be affordable. Affordable? Our MIC is not interested in affordable! 1
JimNtexas Posted 21 hours ago Posted 21 hours ago (edited) On 6/3/2025 at 11:27 AM, disgruntledemployee said: Modern day sappers. Demonstrated, and now every base with aircraft on the ramp is a huge risk. Anti-drone tech/systems is where our R&D/Acquisition resources need to be focused and fast. And hard shelters, but those take a lot of space and if you leave the door open, it can still go boom. Z made a statement, and maybe the scale was set to what occurred, but what if his army was able to hit more bases, more planes, more radars/AA/Comms/Arty/drone stations/etc? I don’t think we need very many tabV harden shelters like we have in Europe here in the United States. But pretty much every valuable airplane to include tankers and high dollar transport should be in enclosed building. Drones can fly into open doors or into hail, sheds or sun sheds. This is such an obvious precaution to take. I doubt anything like that will ever happen instead will be laser and microwave energy, directed weapons that built by one of the big contractors for a few million per unit and we can only afford one per base that’s the most likely outcome of what we can learn from this Ukrainian Pearl Harbor Edited 21 hours ago by JimNtexas 2
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