Well, crap. I wrote last year that jamming was so effective against drones over Ukraine that there was no point in hardening them & it’s better to just buy lots of expendable ones, but I’d hoped the US might square that circle. Per The Wall Street Journal today, the answer is a resounding no [1/n]:

Here’s that The Wall Street Journal article (link buried in second post to deceive evil algorithms): [2/n] wsj.com/world/how-amer…

The Wall Street Journal And here’s our story from last year, quoting experts Samuel Bendett, retired 2-star Patrick Donahoe, Zachary Kallenborn, Kyle Miller, Kyle Miller CSET, and Mauro Gilli . Very curious what they’d say about today’s news (besides “I told you!”). [3/n] breakingdefense.com/2023/06/dumb-a…

The Wall Street Journal Samuel Bendett Patrick Donahoe Zachary Kallenborn Kyle Miller CSET Mauro Gilli One proposal is to give the drones #AI so they don’t need an uninterrupted control link to a human operator, but as David Hambling & Stacie Pettyjohn found, that’s not worked out in combat so far: [4/n] breakingdefense.com/2024/02/the-re…

The Wall Street Journal Samuel Bendett Patrick Donahoe Zachary Kallenborn Kyle Miller CSET Mauro Gilli David Hambling Stacie Pettyjohn It’s easy for civilians used to ubiquitous wifi to overlook how hard electronic warfare can make communications in combat. This pointed comment on techbros not accounting for Russian #EW may’ve got buried by Twitter’s weird threading, I reproduce it here [5/5 for now]: