Comments on: You can launch without regret https://www.isegoria.net/2023/12/you-can-launch-without-regret/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 27 May 2026 16:29:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bruce https://www.isegoria.net/2023/12/you-can-launch-without-regret/comment-page-1/#comment-3633079 Bruce Sun, 03 Dec 2023 17:38:58 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50696#comment-3633079 This is all expensive stuff. The drones that work keep getting cheaper and smaller, like the ones Hamas used on Israeli border guards- a model airplane built around a grenade. The DoD should have tens of millions of these by now. Why don’t they?

The British Navy held off building ironclad warships until the US Civil War ironclads let the cat out of the bag. This was rational and in British interest. The British Navy had a lot of wooden ships ruling the waves, all doomed against ironclads. Why encourage ironclads?

The US military has a lot of expensive equipment, much of it doomed against a thousand or so model airplanes built around grenades. But I don’t think the DoD is rationally discouraging drones. I think DoD is too feckless, corrupt, and focused on Hate Whitey kitsch to perform their duties.

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