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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nancy Mace said drones could be from outer space[/quote] Nancy Mace could be from outer space.[/quote] Nancy Mace gets better intel and capability briefings than you. Space delivered drone swarms are current-level tech right now. Take a typical ICBM, either Russian or Chinese, remove the warhead bus, replace it with a re-entry module with a hundred drones installed in it. The rocket launches, follows it’s ballistic trajectory towards target, the re-entry module enters the atmosphere above the target, deploys a parachute to slow down, and all the drones are turned on, powered up, and then ejected out of the module to fly to their targets. The re-entry module floats down under parachute, lands in the ocean and immediately sinks never to be seen again. The drone swarm does whatever it’s assigned to do until they deplete their batteries, then they fly out over water, land in the water, and sink, erasing any trace of their existence. This is how you get a drone swarm anywhere in the world without needing terrestrial control assets in place. Nancy Mace is a lot smarter than you and whatever idiot journalist wrote that quote. [/quote] Wow. You should write fiction. For one thing, an ICBM from Russia or China would be detected. For another, getting a payload of a swarm of drones to survive the extreme conditions of ICBM launch and re-entry would be a challenge in and of itself, and even the deployment mechanism for releasing a swarm of drones at the exact altitude and position needed at hypersonic velocities would need its own research program separate from ground targets or airbursts. Then, coordinating the swarm for any useful purpose would require advanced algorithms and near-realtime communications and all of the logistics for that (satellites etc). Is the military researching advances in what we can do with ICBMs? Sure. Is the military researching advances in what we can do with drone swarms? Definitely. But to suggest that China and Russia are deploying drone swarms over the US via ICBM without the launches being detected is straight up ludicrous.[/quote] You should focus more on your reading comprehension and less on trying to deliver witty insults. I [b]never said it wouldn’t be detected at launch[/b]. The IR SURSATs in geosync would see the thermal plume immediately at launch. The polar phased array stations would pick up trajectory as soon as it cleared the horizon. So yes, there would be warning. You or I wouldn’t know about it, but plenty of the right people would. Secondly, as for “re-entry being a challenge”….perhaps you should Google something called “Project Mercury”. It’s now totally declassified, and should provide you plenty of understanding how a payload can be brought down from hypersonic speeds of suborbital flight and slowed down enough for a parachute to be deployed. Thirdly, yes, real-time communication with drones via satellites is 1990’s tech for us and them. Imagine what 2024 tech is capable of. Anything that we’re doing, China is doing a year later, and Russia could do, because China sells Russia (some of) what it’s thousands of spies (and some of our own moronic politicians ((looking at you, Swallwell)) glean from our own defense industry. So China has 2023 US tech, and we could do this back in 2013. You do the math. There’s a ton of things that happen that the public never hears about…mostly because very few people were ever aware of it to begin with, and the people that are, take their jobs seriously because they care about protecting this country. We’ve been in a low intensity war with China since Obama’s first term. But everyone has to act like it isn’t happening, and keep the public from freaking out. [/quote]
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