• teft@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    You’d end up jamming yourself. You can’t really have radars or other strong electromagnetic warfare devices near each other operating on the same frequency since they tend to interfere and wash out each other’s signals.

    As a decoy makes sense though since you can send them far away on a drone or something.

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        3 hours ago

        I think this is just the wrong intuition. Not a faulty one, but one which is mostly the same as the doctrine which is being exposed as entirely ineffective.

        US military doctrine is the “towards complexity” doctrine such that your opponent also needs to follow you into complexity. This worked for the US in the post WWII era because it was coupled with an exponentially increasing economic output.

        Whats being show, as doctrine, is “away from complexity” and “towards distributed” approach to warfighting ends up being far more effective.

        So coming from, practically, 100 years of “more advanced more complicated technology and approaches are better” being doctrine, its understandable to want to add complexity to systems.