2030: anti drone warfare has had a breakthrough, giant wind machines now line the front lines which create 120mph winds around the front lines defending them from small drones. Mini portable nuclear reactors are used to power these defenses.

I didn’t know, had to look it up, 17th biggest.

For that first one I kept hoping it’d be 3 hits and was left in suspense until the end.

Just going for a walk and hearing anything remotely sounding like a drone buzz

I was nodding along until

Not even the destitute want pickled cauliflower.

It’s great!

Is that early detection plane like the 3 or 4 A50s ukraine has destroyed that Russia only has a small handful of left?

Edit: near the end of the article it says it’s like the Russians ones. Hope they can protect it, it’s going to be super valuable!

Next up, solar powered AI controlled drones.

Will navigate by stars if needed

They might not go far every day, but nowhere is safe.

A strategic stockpile of millions is pretty much required at this point.

Maybe not ordinance for each one, but at least the drone itself.

If they have eyes on it, attack it when it’s being repaired is all I can come up with, but given their emphasis on no civilian casualties that might not line up properly.

They do, but that’s not how these attacks happened. That would require people to be there, and Ukraine said everyone involved in the attack was back in ukraine before it was executed.

damn, just makes it all even more impressive.

Next up - Blanket permanent turning off of all cell towers within 100km of a military base.

I’m surprised the pictures were so clear. Isn’t the reason it’s usually all grainy/distorted because of electronic interference? Was there just no anti drone electronic warfare equipment running there?

Is my interpretation that they didn’t have videos / pictures of the attacks because it was done autonomously with no way to return the content home the likely reason?

It definitely made me think of Jobs when I saw it. Not sure about the mouth part, but if thats what you see, its probably what was intended.

Next in line, I guess they can call it just “App”.

Saw this yesterday which is relevant

I’d prefer my measurements in giraffes

And be sitting ducks for a long time getting them back to saftey along a known route? Russia isn’t the most trustworthy when it comes to temporary ceasefires.

If you didn’t actually finish high castle, it just keeps getting good weirder.

Ukraine keeps hitting munition stockpiles and have noticed substantial drops in shellings. They’ve also been taking out jets and drone factories, so it’s all less overall.

But while those things can still inflict a lot of damage and do, you still need that armor to move the front lines up.

Nearly all the damage ukraine does is with drones, but those drones still need people to support and hold positions and a critical part of doing that is armor.

No armor means harder to do assaults and harder to defend positions.

There was an article awhile back as well that said something along the lines of 80% of damage is coming from drones as well.

Obviously drones can’t do that alone, but it’s their drones doing their damage.