General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: CptTrips on May 30, 2026, 08:52:10 AM
Title: Drone Attack
Post by: CptTrips on May 30, 2026, 08:52:10 AM
Crazy.
Drones remind me of the introduction of the Cross-Bow.
At one time the heavily armored mounted knight was the F-35 of his day. Quality armor was hugely expensive. The knights were those rich enough to afford the mount and armor. On the battlefield against unarmored infantry they were a feared weapon. The peasants on the ground beast weapon was a pike. Effective but limited to defense.
Then the introduction of the cross-bow. Even a dirt poor untrained peasant with a cross-bow could send a bolt right through that shiny high tech armor. And a cross-bow cost a tiny fraction of a mount and fine armor. An army of cross-bows could decimate a calvary of armored knights.
Title: Re: Drone Attack
Post by: Eagler on May 30, 2026, 10:42:05 AM
German machine guns in ww1..
We are very good at inventing new and more efficient ways to kill each other...
Eagler
Title: Re: Drone Attack
Post by: AKKuya on May 30, 2026, 12:39:45 PM
Swarms of drones used as high explosive missiles...
It's time for all of us to be on the hills, hold hands and sing "I like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony."
Title: Re: Drone Attack
Post by: Randy1 on May 30, 2026, 01:10:11 PM
Or becomes a VA claim denied as "not service connected".
I heard I could get hearing aids at cost through the VA. I wasn't looking for disability but 3 years and many hoops later my hearing loss not service related. They told me hearing aids wouldn't help my left ear at all. Bought mine at Costco. They were wrong about my left ear. The tech cranked it way up relative to the right.
Title: Re: Drone Attack
Post by: Vulcan on June 04, 2026, 04:54:34 PM
The theory is those lasers operate on a light bandwidth that dazzles the low light cameras found in most drones. And in this case the drone did miss - it did not hit the frigate but hit a shipping container on the dock.