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0 pointsXorNot1mo ago0 comments

Mix and match how? Your entire one-way arsenal is sitting in cargo containers off the coast of an enemy nation by definition within drone range.

At this point you've built a very slow, very short ranged undefended arsenal ship.

Your proposal is to put a large supply of systems closer to enemy forces and the you're implying that somehow this wouldn't be vulnerable to being attacked while landed?

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jacquesm1mo ago

Check out the 'Toloka' family for one sample of what drones are like. They've been used in strikes already.

XorNotOP1mo ago

That's a submarine.

Which is notably not going to be launching a drone the size of a even a Shahed, nor anything close to the same range.

It also cannot detect nor engage incoming air threats, like essentially every single in service submarine on the planet due to the whole "being underwater" thing.

jacquesm1mo ago

Yes, it's is a submersible, but it is also a drone.

> Which is notably not going to be launching a drone the size of a even a Shahed, nor anything close to the same range.

It doesn't need to. It is its own munition with a anywhere from 500 to a couple of tons of explosives on board. And a very impressive range.

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jacquesm1mo ago

Check out the 'Toloka' family for one sample of what drones are like. They've been used in strikes already.

XorNotOP1mo ago

That's a submarine.

Which is notably not going to be launching a drone the size of a even a Shahed, nor anything close to the same range.

It also cannot detect nor engage incoming air threats, like essentially every single in service submarine on the planet due to the whole "being underwater" thing.

jacquesm1mo ago

Yes, it's is a submersible, but it is also a drone.

> Which is notably not going to be launching a drone the size of a even a Shahed, nor anything close to the same range.

It doesn't need to. It is its own munition with a anywhere from 500 to a couple of tons of explosives on board. And a very impressive range.

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