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by bobbygoodlatte 983 days ago
Are big-iron investments like this even useful for an outright shooting war with another major power? It feels like our defense budget could be better spent on more cost-effective, unmanned tech
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Unmanned platforms have to launch from somewhere. Like a ship.
Hard to say.

The Ukraine war may not have a ton of lessons for a conflict involving great powers. So far Russia has held back from using its arsenal to its fullest (no nukes, not exactly firebombing Kiev to oblivion). Maybe a preview of a war in Taiwan, though I think that kind of conflict would be quite different