Tbh, given that it was clearly a very exploitative agreement done by an extremely corporatist and conservative predecessor… my position is “fuck ‘em”. Companies and organizations seeking to make deals like that should be wary of rational governments.

Not to mention, this is exactly what the neofascists are doing, only in reverse, and turnabout is not only fair play, but existentially necessary as well.

Jumping nimbly-bimbly from tree to tree

your honor I am not a cat

Just get the legislature to nullify the agreement. Or just void it as governor, or something like that.

Idk man that sounds like an outlier cluster.

I’m talking about HARM and friends because in terms of quickly executing a kill chain against a transmitting radar, antirad munitions are the gold standard. Sure, it can be done other ways. But it generally involves a lot more systems with relatively complex integration.

The system being discussed is not explicitly or exclusively useful in military contexts. There are a LOT of places where advanced beam forming and radar capabilities could be useful outside of that. Not to mention: in military applications, this is pretty definitely a defensive system.

So, one of the really interesting things to me about this approach is that it offers the same asymmetric value proposition that cheap attack drones do to modern pre-drone IADS.

That is: this is a platform that costs 10-15k, and an AGM-88 of modern manufacture costs almost 900k, and a Kh-31 costs about 550k - and, just as importantly, both require a long time to manufacture. So, you could theoretically make a moderately large distributed array sprinkled over a few square kilometers, and even if they’re ALL turned on, it quickly becomes logistically infeasible to knock them all out without spending a silly quantity on antirad munitions, as well as massively attriting your stocks of antirad munitions. And if you turn like 10-25% of them on at a time and cycle through your array, the problem becomes even harder for the attacker. And if you have some sort of process or mechanism - like, oh I don’t know, figuring out how to do light aerial transport with cargo drones, or even figuring out how to mount these distributed array nodes on the drones themselves, and some sort of lightweight tether for providing power - the problem becomes a MASSIVE pain in the ass for an adversary (especially that last idea, which introduces z-axis and immediate maneuverability, such that the array could feasibly detect and altogether avoid an incoming antirad munition).

And that’s the paradigm of modern warfare - not just drones, but also networked and attritable systems that maintain functionality when elements are taken offline

I mean, considering the political climate there… it’s very karmic

I’m not downvoting the vid you posted. But I am downvoting your obnoxiously pithy and inane comments.

As in: you agree with the article’s assertion?

No - you’re making wild and completely unfounded assertions about who people are “worshipping”. Nobody fucking likes Hillary. You’re outraged about something that isn’t a thing.

The fuck are you on about, kid?

What would be fantastic is if they also returned the 100M or so in gold and various currencies that Orban’s bagmen fucking stole from Ukrainian government officials who were transporting it through Hungary a few months ago.

lol shut the fuck up NYT

It is wild being a unitedstatesian and being stoked about Iran simply refusing to engage with the regime’s “I’ll just say a thing and we’ll all pretend it’s real” vibes. They’re honestly showing more leadership than the VAST majority of politicians in this fucking country.

Depends on the color, these days

Iran is incapable of

Kash fucking Patel disbanded the team that looks for credible threats from Iran right before we started bombing the shit out of them. That’s a blatantly, obviously dangerous action and context. The only reason it’s not a straight up false flag attack is essentially a technicality, and because Iran hasn’t actually tried anything (yet).

allowed

You’re, uh, paying attention to the whole bit where the regime doesn’t fucking care about rules and laws and court orders, and that nobody enforces them against the regime anymore, right?