General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: icepac on July 12, 2026, 08:03:52 PM
Title: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: icepac on July 12, 2026, 08:03:52 PM
Trying to imagine what percentage of 300 drones would make it to target if launched yesterday.
Would the percentage of drones that get to target damage enough power generation/transmission equipment to shut off most of the power in the US for years?
It’s not like we have a bunch of S300s, pantsir, or Tor systems in the density found in russia to take down inbound drones.
We see that russia’s drone defense lets a few through.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: Randy1 on July 13, 2026, 10:55:21 AM
No set of drones can match the damage of a hurricane or ice storm. All of which is fairly quickly rebuilt.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: CptTrips on July 13, 2026, 11:13:28 AM
What about drones hitting refineries? Or Cushings?
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: icepac on July 13, 2026, 01:04:52 PM
Havana to washington DC is within the published range of these drones.
Only need to hit 9 critical substations that google tells our enemies if they inquire.
The information is out there such that they won't need any communication using terrain recognition.
I would be looking for ships off both coasts that might carry thousands of drones each.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKIron on July 13, 2026, 01:18:30 PM
Ships are easily tracked and are tracked. If in place and prepared for such an attack a tactical nuke could theoretically destroy both the launching platform and the relatively limited emp of that take out the drones.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKIron on July 13, 2026, 01:35:37 PM
An artillery nuke can reach out 20 miles. The farther away from the target the drones are launched the more options there are to deal with them.
I can see a surprise attack might catch us with our pants down. Once.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: icepac on July 13, 2026, 03:51:08 PM
Who was tracking the ship that delivered the drones to cuba?
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: icepac on November 05, 2026, 05:48:27 AM
It’s not like we have a bunch of S300s, pantsir, or Tor systems in the density found in russia to take down inbound drones.
We see that russia’s drone defense lets a few through.
I’m starting to see missile defense systems being deployed in the U.S. which means the risk is real. Been seeing lots of military heavy helicopters, C-130s, and F18s daily for the last 8 days herein myrtle beach.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: Eagler on November 05, 2026, 07:43:51 AM
Heard they have some on a barge in the intercoastal waterway down in southeast Florida outside a particular residence..
It's a crazy place getting crazier by the day..
Eagler
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKKuya on November 05, 2026, 08:06:18 AM
I would be more concerned with a false flag operation. A militant group funded or using stolen drone systems attacking domestic targets making it seem foreign agents responsible.
Worst case scenario is multiple teams targeting the major international airports across the country. They employ drones as kamikaze units to destroy both landing and taking off airliners. 15 airports at a coordinated time with at least 5 airliners shot down apiece shuts down air travel for an extended time into the weeks and maybe months. Thousands od dead passengers and flight crews will make the worst headlines and misery with grief strikes the country as a whole like 9/11. Retaliation to a framed foreign country would be swift and immediate.
Air travel worldwide would change overnight. Fear would keep planes grounded. The only solution would be missile defense systems put into place around all major airpors.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: Eagler on November 05, 2026, 08:35:33 AM
Are missile defense systems that effective against drone swarms...
Eagler
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: icepac on November 05, 2026, 02:11:52 PM
Usa needs to protect grid infrastructure.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKIron on November 05, 2026, 02:58:06 PM
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: Eagler on November 05, 2026, 03:31:39 PM
The silly series Lioness had a drone swarm attack scene...
The unrealistic abilities of the stars to stay alive by super human skeet shooting added to the stupidity of the show..
Numbers shown in that show didn't have a realistic defense imo..
Power stations/grids are impossible to protect from such an attack ..
Eagler
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKIron on November 05, 2026, 03:35:53 PM
Better learn my Morse substitute code.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKKuya on November 05, 2026, 07:36:21 PM
Look at the Battle of Midway as an example. Two air fleets attacking opposing ship fleets well out of visual range of each other.
Is this the future of drone warfare? Two sides attacking each other with no ground forces engaged or even with close proximity?
Underground bunkers utilized as air combat HQ with hundreds of drone pilot operators safe in a secure area. Film reference would be the finale of Guardians of the Galaxy 2.
Another worst-case scenario. An aggressor force decides to attack the US in a coordinated campaign from the two seaboards and the Gulf. They use large cargo container ships. The containers are carrying the drones inside. The crew have modified containers that act as launch mechanisms for the drones. When the drone launches, the container is pushed off the ship. Each cargo ship can launch thousands of drones with ordnance. Dozens of cargo ships can be 50 miles offshore in international waters. Drones can be slaved to a guide drone operated by a single drone pilot. Several dozen drone pilots are needed in each cargo ship hold controlling and directing the drone fleets.
Radar picks up the cloud of drone. Jets are scrambled. Defending drones are launched. SAM sites go active. Air raid sirens sound alarm.
Any attacking force willing to die to achieve their goals. That's an enemy you don't want.
This sounds farfetched but it could actually happen in the near future. Motivation, capability and willingness to die for the cause are the ingedients for a disaster.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKIron on November 05, 2026, 08:27:50 PM
Drones back decades but not like the cheap expendable drones being used in the Russia Ukraine war. They do affect the way wars are waged, as all technology advancements in war do.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: Eagler on November 06, 2026, 06:56:00 AM
Autonomous...good ole AI ..
Fire and forget drone swarms..
Eagler
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKIron on November 06, 2026, 07:43:55 AM
Forget about AI. It won't be in our corner. At least not an overarching AI. Small autonomous will still be around. Probably.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: icepac on November 06, 2026, 10:39:50 AM
The chinese soldiers are already here.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: -gg- on November 06, 2026, 10:46:37 AM
I think drones are a HUGE threat. Hard to detect, they can be carried anywhere easily and even dropped from balloons.\
They are nearly impossible to shoot down. They can easily do major damage. I'm surprised we haven't already seen attacks.
Remember a few years back when some of our remote bases were being swarmed by drones? I think in New Mexico and others.
Drones are a massive threat.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKIron on November 06, 2026, 10:57:49 AM
Knocking out power plants would of course be disruptive and likely cause many deaths and much suffering but there's really no comparison with a EMPs knocking out not only the power grid but all electronic devices.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: -gg- on November 06, 2026, 11:02:54 AM
Are missile defense systems that effective against drone swarms...
Eagler
No. Drones are cheap and missiles are expensive. But drones can fly low and avoid detection easily. I'm sure we have some ideas for drone defense. We better have.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKKuya on November 06, 2026, 11:13:17 AM
Time to install CIWS systems everywhere. Gatlin guns with thousands pf rounds of ammunition will knock swarms of cheap drones out of the sky. R2-D2 to the rescue!!!
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKIron on November 06, 2026, 11:14:08 AM
That USAF link I posted is a real thing. Shotguns aren't necessarily the first line or only line of defense but hundreds of shotguns could take out a lot of drones. Shotgun shells are a LOT cheaper than even cheap drones.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: icepac on November 06, 2026, 11:17:12 AM
The EMP strength required to destroy all electronics devices in continental US would need to be bigger than any nuke currently existing.
Launching it toward the US upper atmosphere from the only country in possession of a nuke of 20 megatons (russia)…will guarantee a missive response that might land before the EMP bomb does it’s stuff.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKIron on November 06, 2026, 11:25:05 AM
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKIron on November 06, 2026, 12:30:09 PM
It's a good bet these low cost autonomous drones use GPS exclusively for navigation. That's easy for the military to disrupt. Those using remote control require two way radio signals which can also be disrupted. Not every countermeasure will be revealed to the public.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: AKKuya on November 06, 2026, 03:53:24 PM
High powered energy weapons, artillery rounds containing thousands of aluminum foil pieces, millions of helium balloons to get sucked into jet engines, and last but not raspberry jam, Lone Star approved.
Not many secrets from the public to keep anymore.
Title: Re: Attention warriors. Mainland is being threatened.
Post by: Chris79 on November 06, 2026, 04:26:27 PM