Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
The US desperately needs to learn how to use and mass produce drones or it will be behind on an ongoing military revolution that is killing a majority of soldiers in the Russia-Ukraine war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGJgHXTeat0
Russia had a ship carrying two nuclear reactors likely for North Korea’s nuclear submarines. It was sunk by some sort of explosion. No one is admitting what happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftc4PZQlSdw
The Navy’s MQ-25 could do WAY MORE than just refuel jets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydVP4HubQk
Japan is becoming its own hub in a hub and spoke model of quasi-alliances in the Asia-Pacific. It’s cooperating with many countries and selling needed weapons. Japan is the most trusted major power among ASEAN countries. Beating the EU, US, China, and India.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYRGTpagxus
Ukraine long-range drone strikes defeat advanced Russian anti-air by flying low, limiting the coverage of radars and confusing them with ground structures, while also using AI to target vulnerable and important targets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRRNlXjHLZc
The US is not adapting fast enough to modern drone warfare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He00DasZ2MQ
Israelis are having a tough time with FPV drones in Lebanon. Are Americans ready for this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhtc9COUi78
Because the US has proven itself an unreliable arms supplier over Ukraine, offering weapons and then suddenly taking them away, Germany has decided to replace the US as a major arms supplier to Europe. This will result in a loss of US sales and negotiating leverage over European countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UteYRnpyMX4
Trump was offered Ukrainian anti-drone systems last year, and he turned it down. There would likely be less destroy American equipment and fewer dead Americans if the US had acquired these systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GubqClU4T3A
The A10 is an obsolete aircraft. It has found a role against weaker enemies, but in a peer-to-peer conflict, the aircraft is not survivable. At this point, it’s not worth the costs to keep it around. It shouldn’t be replaced with a one-to-one aircraft. It’s role of close-ground support where the craft flies just 200 feet above the ground is not survivable in modern combat against peer-to-peer competitors.
It may be worth keeping around while the US industrial base takes forever to build new aircraft. It can fight drones in the meantime and even launch long-range missiles from the air. In a fight against China, the US will need all the long-range air missile launchers it can get.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNmks2GLGlQ