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PermatexNo.2

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1. I thought the same thing the first time I saw videos of a drone taking out a Russian tank by dropping.....
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 03:26 PM
Jun 8

.......a grenade into an open hatch. "Well there goes Tom Clancy's ideas about tank warfare in Europe". When military drone operators sat in air conditioned office in Air Force bases and controlled million dollar drones via satellite it was one thing. Now a Ukrainian school teacher is miles from the front and is destroying a bomber that the U.S. has spent billions of dollars worrying about and defending against. Everything from Nike missiles on the shore of Lake Erie in the fifties, to the DEW Line, to networks of satellites today. All kind of obsolete.

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