Friday, June 26, 2026

If I thought of this, so has someone else

How many shipping containers would 600 of this mix of drones fit in?

We've plenty of space in the country where you could buy land and build a barn to keep satellites from seeing anything out of the ordinary, well within range of air bases. Assembling enough people to manage the rapid unpacking and launches without having an informer in the group might be a problem, depending on the group doing the attacking.

Just destroying the aircraft on a few bases would be painfully expensive, though not crippling.

And there are plenty of infrastructure targets too, some fairly fragile. I gather there's redundancy for a lot of our capacity: if California is a bit messed up we've still got Texas and Louisiana. Still, oceans around us don't protect as well as they used to, unless we search everything coming in.

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