I don’t really have a dog in this race but I’m inclined to agree with you. For civilian colleges, football programs bring in applications and money for their host institutions. These benefits don’t really apply to the military academies.

… tactical and technological shifts. From simple ones like keeping the hatch closed more and relying
on optics, deploying jammers to each vehicle, ‘cope cages’, up-armor kits for roofs, dedicated anti-drone remote-control machine guns, etc.

Good point. They definitely make life harder for armor but they don’t make tanks obsolete. It’s like previous generations of weapons (anti-tank guns, HEAT rounds, ATGMs), another swing back and forth between offense and defense. Armored forces can and will counter them with a range of…

Guess they read too much into “publish or perish”

They put a semicolon instead of an apostrophe, should be: rock apes’ correspondence

Good point. And drones can help somewhat with logistics but at least for the near future that seems pretty limited to resupplying small units over short distances (like a UGV/ UAV dropping off ammo for a platoon) in addition, having more drones will increase the strain on logistics even further.

I showed this post to my dad (who taught a class on Paradise Lost in college) and he said that they weren’t evil before the fall, but that the fall occurred relatively soon after their creation

Great source on this subject: www.airuniversity.af.edu/CASI/Display...

I wonder if the similar claim that PLARF personnel were using rocket fuel to heat up hotpot comes from a similar misunderstanding

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IIRC early in the war in Afghanistan, the US special forces guiding in air strikes off-handedly mentioned to the Northern Alliance that some of the pilots were women. They would then taunt the Taliban over the radio that they were being. bombed by female pilots

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The worst thing about military science is how many terms are French loan words. Sadly, we have with the consequences everyday.

Looks like they came out great!

Looks like $8.35 million…

Interesting to see defenses against FPV drones go from ad-hoc measures to actual production models.

I wonder if we’ll see a similar retractable mesh mounted on AFVs themselves - which would allow them to preserve much more firepower than “turtle tanks” currently can