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Shipwack

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21. Drones are the future of land and sea combat.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 10:06 PM

Jan 14

Most of the world’s military planners are still planning on how to fight the last war. As usual.

No one is paying attention to Ukraine’s tactics. No one is paying attention to what happened at the Fauklands when the UK attacked.

Drones and relatively cheap missiles make anything larger than a jeep/rowboat a target.

Submarines and (maybe) aircraft will last a couple of decades longer, at the most, but the writing is on the wall for them too.

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