New thread to discuss results, applicable lessons and armchair general’s opinions on the conflict. Politics for the other thread.

My first salvo:

• UCAVs are needed now, up to full autonomous operations, less expensive persistent surface and air area denial, integrated with manned platforms.

• Suicide drones, more of them, conventional ones like LUCAS against fixed and large moving targets (ships) and new systems bringing direct anti personnel drones/loitering munitions linked to airborne C2 aircraft or linked to operators thru high altitude network enablers. Morale destruction and surgical targeting of the most odious members of the regime.

• More surface fleet combatants for naval control, greater presence over large/multiple areas

• Base defense and expedient shelter hardening capes growth, new decoy systems.

Not today ISIS.

36 minutes ago, Standby said:

Not today ISIS.

Yeah I get it but the unresolvable loop in the original Iran thread has reached a point where nothing more can really get done, besides there’s enough in the open source world to have discussions worth what it costs to access BO…

The articles are starting to ask what this can teach us about a Taiwan scenario, what is China learning, etc….

We should discuss the big elephants in the room.

Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by Clark Griswold