US 'Gets Its Ass Handed To It' In Wargames: Here's A $24 Billion Fix « Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary

https://breakingdefense.com/2019/03/us-gets-its-ass-handed-to-it-in-wargames-heres-a-24-billion-fix/

TL;DR ^(sorta): Aircraft carriers (and the Navy) are a dumb idea now --a relic of past warfare.

Carriers would be sunk within hours, and manned aircraft are doomed. I've argued those points with military friends for years. They ALL disagree. I hope we never find out.

I think the main use of carriers for the last 30 years has to do bombing raids on less robust countries from the relative safety of an ocean.

Didn't the UK spend the past 7 years borrowing a French one?

Somewhat ominously, without any tweaking my feeds have apparently decided to take a turn toward military tech.

This is not your daddy's drone.

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China stops buying Canadian canola | The Western Producer
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Re: The future of warfare:

https://old.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/b8k593/this_futuristic_amazon_blimp_pumps_out_drones/

Drone swarms everywhere. Sans blimp.

>swarms

"I am pretty sure somewhere Jeff Bezos is pointing at a screen saying 'Now that's what the f### I am talking about!'"

I agree.  BTW, that's the Brit 'flying butt' blimp.

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world's largest aircraft the 'flying bum' gets full-production go-ahead
https://www.designboom.com/design/worlds-largest-aircraft-airlander-10-flying-bum-01-14-2019/

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