They are absolutely hanging those guardsmen out to dry intentionally. They’re very literally trying to get some of them killed.

Lmao dude what the fuck would you propose be used against a quarter million kamikaze UAVs?

And more importantly: the defenders need to get lucky every single time. The attackers only need to get lucky once.

How many Standard + SEARAM + ESSM + CIWS rounds do you think a single base and two surface flotillas could expend in a sustained saturation attack like that? Not how many in the magazines - how many can be effectively expended over a given span of time. Also, take into the account that a part of this strategy typically includes salting the mix with much more modern and capable and fast ASMs/AGMs.

Saturation attacks are the strategy the Soviet (and now Russian) Navy centers their doctrine upon for a reason. And that reason is the USN CVBG. Cheap, numerous drones make that strategy a lot more effective.

I mean, that’s good, but fuck me, the fact that that’s even necessary is appalling on multiple levels

You are grossly underestimating the difficulty of dealing with a saturation attack, much less a sustained one. That sort of attack would likely almost certainly overwhelm the defensive resources of Guam with a couple CVBGs parked offshore.

DNC:

write that down WRITE THAT DOWN

…you should look into what this shit is doing to Ukraine. They’re quite difficult and tedious to intercept, and they are cheap enough that it’s not that hard to launch saturation attacks.

Put another way: if NK just converts a bunch of factories and cranks out, like, a quarter million of them over a few years (they’re very simple - I don’t think that’s an insane proposition, seriously), that becomes an existential conventional strike capability, especially if you factor in their artillery assets too. They could ruin every single military and industrial zone in SK in a single strike if they built up a stockpile like that. Seriously, hundreds to thousands of small weaponized UAVs per target where the target list is in the hundreds is not something that modern day IADS could hack - much less economically. The only systems that are going to be able to effectively deal with massed and sustained attacks like that are directed energy weapons, which are only now being rolled out operationally in relatively small numbers, and I’m not sure SK has a system like that ready for deployment.

Nah they’d just use the backdoor that musk put into the Treasury Department to “lose” some money in orangeboi’s direction

It’s not about how much SK can produce.

It’s about the fact that SK is now going to have to create a whole new IADS layer to defend against these cheap tactical kamikaze drones / prop-driven cruise missiles.

South Korea is going to be (justifiably) Big Mad about that

The protestors really need to get the CANG to switch sides and face off against the police. Low key convinced that’s a real possibility if orangeboi or Hesgeth tries to order them to do something really beyond the pale.

Lmfao they’re slipping. It’s really telling. Putin is losing control. His conventional forces must be in pretty dire straits.

Maybe losing another meaningful fraction of his nuclear forces will help him feel better.

lmfao it absolutely fucking is what you voted for

Jesus tapdancing christ, what a daft bint

Honestly, no it couldn’t. That’s not a credible threat. And it’s not just about materiel losses. They sent most of their trainers to the front lines a few years ago. You… just don’t do that. It makes it impossible to regenerate your forces.

It’s weird; it really is like they’re taking the “melodramatic Galadriel” approach to geopolitics - that is to say, “ALL SHALL LOVE ME, AND DESPAIR”

Lmfao 90/10 split, that’s fucking hilarious.

Dude didn’t lose. He was shunned.

lol holy fuck every time he does something incredibly dumb and pointless, I think “this is it; surely he won’t top this”.

And yet here we are.

It would be really hilarious if it turns out that they’re like “yeah sorry it’s just uninteresting rocks and terrestrial strata”

Mmm yeah, fair. Texas does have some more direct parallels in that realm

The whole mineral rights stuff is going to be interesting to see play out. Because Zelenskyy, and Ukrainians in general, should very much beware Yankees bearing “gifts” at this point, because we are not the same country we were 6 months ago.