Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

[taxi1]

You’re intentionally dancing around the issue or associating advantages of one category of drones (in this case cheap low cost) to all categories of them.

Nobody is 3D printing circuit cards or processors in a forward area. Nobody is manufacturing batteries or optics/sensors in a forward area. 3D printers solve the rapidly attrited expendable parts issue, not the supply chain issue.

Again, a few pages ago you were making claims about advanced thinking systems that can be unleashed autonomously annd how close we were to those and now your pivot is to dirt cheap low cost forward edge of the battle area systems. Those are not the same thing.

Well, since you seem to be asserting that the explosion in sUAS and AI and their intersection are no big deal, minimal impact on strategy & tactics, etc., we’ll just have to see how it plays out.

 

[Lawman]

Well, since you seem to be asserting that the explosion in sUAS and AI and their intersection are no big deal, minimal impact on strategy & tactics, etc., we’ll just have to see how it plays out.

No we’re calling your and others assertion that something like drones doing the job of Tow missiles and light artillery is somehow “game changing” and “revolutionary,” is neither and you are over inflating the impact they’ve had while minimizing the challenges they face.

Small armed drones have been collocated in our battle space for over a decade. So have counter sUAS systems. They didn’t suddenly close the air then anymore than they have now, and the assertion that the rest of the multidomain ecosphere is just standing around unprepared to deal with it is a departure from reality.

There are far more terrifying places that AI is making an impact on the battlefield than drones.

 

[taxi1]

No we’re calling your and others assertion that something like drones doing the job of Tow missiles and light artillery is somehow “game changing” and “revolutionary,” is neither and you are over inflating the impact they’ve had while minimizing the challenges they face.

So...no big deal, right?

Let's see how it plays out.

 

[Lawman]

So...no big deal, right?

Let's see how it plays out.

Wow what an informed post.

Nobody could possibly think of an effective counter to this new and dominating weapon system, just they didn’t think of one for the cruise missile, gps guided munitions, air delivered bombardment, or for that matter the crossbow.

You guys have become the new bomber Mafia.

 

[Random8145]

Well I don't know about all these military drone concepts, but pizza delivery by drone is a pie-in-the-sky idea.

 

[sevenhelmet]

 

[AircraftGeek513]

Are we surprised?

https://news.usni.org/2025/07/07/carrier-john-f-kennedy-delivery-delayed-2-years-fleet-will-drop-to-10-carriers-for-1-year

 

[Brett327]

Getting rid of 10-20% of our government civilian workforce certainly isn’t helping.

 

[AircraftGeek513]

Getting rid of 10-20% of our government civilian workforce certainly isn’t helping.

There are ways to improve efficiency. Cutting the workforce willy nilly isn't one of them,

 

[Lawman]

Getting rid of 10-20% of our government civilian workforce certainly isn’t helping.

Go to any finance or ID card office and tell me that 20% of that workforce couldn’t be culled and achieve the same level of output.

Our acquisitions process is yet another example of the same systemic issue we have, people and corps are not asked to perform to any real metric and failure doesn’t hurt.

 

[Brett327]

Go to any finance or ID card office and tell me that 20% of that workforce couldn’t be culled and achieve the same level of output.

Our acquisitions process is yet another example of the same systemic issue we have, people and corps are not asked to perform to any real metric and failure doesn’t hurt.

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

 

[taxi1]

There are ways to improve efficiency. Cutting the workforce willy nilly isn't one of them,

It is bizarre going to meetings with our gov team members and seeing their decreasing numbers as they randomly take the DRP or get laid off. Critical people too, on one-person-deep teams. The killer is in contracts personnel. So many of them worked remotely and bailed rather than RTO.

You kill money movement, you kill the organization.