Born Hunter
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Are you asking about that post or my other one?
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Release the hounds: Army event to feature drone swarms that behave like a wolf pack WWW.DEFENSENEWS.COM Edge 22 will see a large, interactive drone swarm demonstrating a variety of behaviors, some of which...
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Two of the buzz words in weapons development currently are networking and AI. We've seen the unprecedented proliferation of unmanned combat and recon drones in the last decade or so. There's trials going on recently with how to get these things 'smarter' and more coordinated, as you say swarming technologies. Decent guided weapons already have some degree of decision making ability. Programmed to 'hunt' in a designated area for enemy targets with the ability to prioritise high value or avoid high risk. Applying that to drones and incorporating AI takes it to the next level. Having ev
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The right way... you mean like the EU was (and Russia for that matter) pre 2014 in Ukraine? Taking over with a cheque book as WILF eloquently put it. Same as basically every nation does in this great game. Foreign aid anyone? I haven't a problem with it really, every nation, even superpowers, need partners. The terms of any agreement are there in writing when you pick yours. Pick wisely. There's only one reason the Chinese aren't doing the military power projection play, and that's because they're not ready to... <play impending doom music> There's arguably only two nation
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I’m not saying it’s right or wrong BUT, in other industries if a company didn’t embrace the emerging and dominant management methodologies of the time to remain competitive then they’d either go bust or just keep their heads afloat until they eventually folded with the owners retiring.
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What I don’t understand is if it’s so simple as supermarkets doing whatever they want why farmers aren’t cooperatively striking? NFU? If supermarkets can’t get eggs at the price they want then they’ll pay more surely? Naive view sure, but I’d like to hear why. If farmers are really going bust at current prices then the supply will collapse and the prices will have to go up to bolster it anyway. Ive got mates in farming and we’ve all listened to how farming is f****d for decades. But they’re all still managing skiiing holidays and new discos/RRs… even the non land owning lads still af
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Yeah the Chinese are the good guys! If only the bad children of Britain weren’t so mighty, the rest of the worlds powers would spread sunshine and rainbows and we’d all live in a utopia.
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I honestly don't think it would matter. Non-membership doesn't exclude them from having relations with someone other than Russia. I've said it before, even now, especially now, agreeing to not accede Ukraine to NATO won't be enough for Russia. They want Ukraine totally removed from having any sort of relationship with the West. I'm not intending to conclusively say were good and they're bad. I'm just really arguing against the opposite of that, that it's all our fault. It's just the reality of power structures and geopolitics. It's alright for Russia to have their proxies at our bord
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To give you some clarity on that, UK forces alone have been training them since 2015 iirc. Operation Orbital. In addition, contracts for sales of our kit and tech support for their own has been an increasing thing since then. If you recall the incident last year during the inaugural queen elizabeth carrier strike group deployment, while in the med a destroyer from the group detached and entered the Black Sea with diplomats for a meeting with the Ukrainians at a port in the Black Sea. The Russians claimed to have chased the destroyer off with warning shots. That meeting was to agree arms s
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Whereas everyone would live in peace and harmony if we weren’t involved I expect? Not like regionally and globally there aren’t queues of other countries and non state actors that would fill the void if we stepped back to their benefit and our loss huh?
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Do you honestly think the west are the only ones contending for ground where they can or that they/we are the only ones at fault of breaking the peace? Like Russia give a f**k about these bio labs. They’ve just cottoned on to it because it’s a narrative that’s gained a modicum of traction in the west. Just so we’re clear, the soviets managed to come to all sorts of treaty agreements with the west to maintain peace but apparently the really important one for them never made it to a treaty, just a promise? What’s the point in treaties exactly if promises carry such weight? It’s nonsens
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Wait for it… ”sumo doesn’t count”
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If Putin authorises direct action against ‘our side’ then that will justify our side using defensive measures to protect their current non combat ops to support Ukraine. They won’t just jib because Russia raised their game. And that’ll end with every single such instance of Russian aggression in a loss of men and assets. They’d get wrecked at every meeting and it’d give nato the excuse to properly start degrading the Russian war machine. That escalation would come with new ‘rules’ and the Russian homeland would be firmly off limits. Frankly in such a circumstance how hard the Russians wer
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It is. Big improvement over rapier imo. And a commercial success with export sales for the navalised version and possibly the land version iirc. MBDA knock out the best air defence missiles in the world imo.
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I read something today about the US government saying part of it’s strategy in Ukraine is to degrade the Russian military to such a degree that it is incapable of invading another neighbour.
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I don’t really care about sympathy. Like I said, it’s never just about being a force of good. NATO or it’s members might’ve been able to prevent the invasion. Imo It’s an over simplification to say this is only about NATO. I also don’t believe that continual power competition I talked about can be a won by just conceding every time someone threatens to kill innocent people. Lets not fall into the trap of thinking these buffer states are all independent states. Many of them are simply proxies of Russia. How is that any different really to NATO membership? The only difference is as a p
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I think people simplify things too much. It’s not down to a lack of information. It’s simply laziness or frustration. I’m sure Putin is alarmed by NATO expansion.
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I feel like people over simplify what motivates these sort of foreign policy actions but sure it’s never just about being a force of good, as is how it’s sold. I’m just so far past that I don’t even consider it. But equally it’s not as simple as state sanctioned piracy. Theres a global power structure that is always being contested at every level and in every area. It’s much more complicated than “we are the force of good” or “we can steal their oil”.
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I haven’t said we’re peacemakers. You have a habit of thinking if I comment on what is happening then I am making a moral judgement and taking a side. You implied there was no point in proxy wars and that ‘we’ should actually be at war if ‘we’ are going to engage in a proxy war. I find that incredibly naive. And in doing so I’ve not backed any side as it could apply to both.
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I’m not getting dragged into your nonsense. There are more options and states in life than simply peace or war. It’s unfortunate if that pisses you off.
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I haven’t commented on any of those points. You said if we are willing to engage in a proxy war then we should just go all out and actually go to war ourselves. It’s a nonsense statement.
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‘We’ don’t want a war. I don’t know what’s so hard to understand? And everyone plays this game, not just ‘us and the yanks’.
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One of our boats has just been loaded up with Tomahawks in full view of the world…
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He’s not human!
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That’s what puts me off the extremist types. They don’t recognise simple human traits as anything other than poor discipline. Imo it’s wrong and damaging. There’s a few different more enlightened strategies of dealing with exactly what you refer to. A common one which is more for physical recovery but is equally for mental recovery is incorporating ‘deload weeks’. But one I liked the sound of in theory was from a instagram account I really rate called buildingtheelite. Is a special operations training page which is very scientifically driven in their thinking. They encourage 6 week progra
