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0 pointsbayarearefugee1d ago0 comments

> Should we get into a big war, we'll likely need mass production of military vehicles and having mass production of consumer vehicles is a good start.

And all those military vehicles we build will be destroyed by tiny fpv drones that cost a tiny percent of what the vehicles cost.

Why do people cling to this WW II era idea that we need car factories in case we go to war?

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budman11d ago· 2 in thread

Those tiny fpv drones pack a tiny punch. Sure, it will destroy a current generation Chevy Equinox. But two weeks after the war starts, countermeasures will be created. The vehicles will be changed to make them harder to find, and harder to kill. A small drone will be rendered ineffective by small countermeasures. As much as I dislike the current US administration, Ford moving to making missiles and other military hardware is a good idea. They sure can't build a cost effective vehicle; yet there is a lot more potential profit in a Standard Missile, not to mention less competition.

stackedinserter1d ago

> But two weeks after the war starts, countermeasures will be created. The vehicles will be changed to make them harder to find, and harder to kill. A small drone will be rendered ineffective by small countermeasures

Where did you get this?

Nobody solved FPV's in four years, why do you think US or any other country will solve it in two weeks?

"small drone will be rendered ineffective by small countermeasures" – only a person that lives under a rock and doesn't follow RU-UA war in any way can say such things.

budman11d ago

Not solved. Made less effective. So it takes 100 of them to make any military effect.

The thousands and thousands of FPV drones being used have not been decisive on the battlefield.

The war is a slog, and resembles WWI more than WWII.

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toast01d ago

Gotta move infantry some how. If they're being destroyed all the time, gotta build new stuff.

Last world war, a lot of the mass production facilities got pushed into building munitions too. Harder to do that without manufacturing facilities.

stackedinserter1d ago

It's truly shocking that westerners still believe in fancy military megafauna.

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