[mikewarot]

>I think America is one war away from losing its 'super power' status and being diminished to a much lower status.

We were one poorly chosen voluntary conflict away from being shown to be a paper tiger. Now we've proved it, thanks to the fool in the White House and everyone who supports him.

Focusing our efforts away from mass produced drones is a huge mistake in my opinion. We need to produce drones by the million.

We also need both .50 caliber and shotgun sized proximity rounds by the billions to enable local defense against them.

[diogenescynic]

Yep, the conflicts in Iran and Ukraine have shown how weak our strategy is. Iran is beating us with balsa wood drones. Cheaper is better in this case. But we still like buying the best/most expensive/most over-engineered option available. We should be figuring out how to design a supply chain that can mass produce these in the event of a real conflict from local materials... not building the most high spec exotically sourced version... which is what we are currently doing.