BRACKEN: Active vs. Passive Defense
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We're fighting this war on the other side of the planet, and our personnel and extremely expensive and difficult to replace assets are all sitting exposed above… pic.twitter.com/9cQsSlNWLa— Matt Bracken (@Matt_Bracken48) September 9, 2026
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To be fair, the new AI driven, software based guidance systems are brand new.
Previously, you had to build absolutely perfect inertial guidance systems for each long range missile.
A very, very, very expensive and technical product.
A product so precise and sensitive that if one measurement is off, the entire missile explodes after losing yaw control shortly after launch.
Nowadays, we have a new weapon that is a mix between a Cessna 172 and a B-2 Spirit (Shahed Drones) running on a computer guidance program that checks its work with off the shelf Geo-Locating Components. (Cameras, GPS, Star Locators… etc)
And it’s powered by a Chinese clone of a highly reliable airplane engine.
I don’t think anyone could have predicted off the shelf hobby shop R/C components fighting the entire US Navy and Air Force.
Heck, even the Army had to watch $240 million in missiles being launched at drones a few days ago.
Another problem we have, these new ballistic missiles are, and I emphasis “ARE”, the largest munitions ever fired at a US military service member.
Giant ballistic missiles are something that a nation needed a Space program to build. But that changed around 2015.
I’m not worried about Iran. They can go bankrupt and go nuts eating pistachios all day in their granite missile bunkers.
They have been strategically defeated. Everyone is building new trade routes now.
The real problem is going to be everyone else copying Iran’s homework.
Imagine Jungle Warfare, but with smart mines and spider monkey drone bots.
Or, China with submersible sub pens that can’t be bombed or located.
This whole situation is a damn mess.
The next ten years of warfare is gonna be so profoundly different than anything anyone is seeing.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we go to war with China and it’s basically like the strait of Hormuz.
Just a high tech – low tech standoff from both sides.
Johnny, thank you for this:
“I’m not worried about Iran. They can go bankrupt and go nuts eating pistachios all day in their granite missile bunkers. They have been strategically defeated. Everyone is building new trade routes now.”
True. Good to see someone here say it out loud. Good to know I’m not alone in this assessment. There’s a lot more to this as well. Economic warfare is still real weaponry as long as the crash isn’t terminal… yet.
“Imagine Jungle Warfare, but with smart mines and spider monkey drone bots.”
Reminds me of operating in Panama. As if monkeys pissing on you or throwing monkey shit at you wasn’t enough, imagine them running up on you and exploding… The surveillance application could be bad enough, exploding monkey bots really makes you think about the absolute insanity of these possibilities.
It’s obvious that they don’t have to look like monkeys or any other type of animal. Recently read an article on loitering drones that incorporate a type of bird talons to enable them lurk from tree branches and either collect surveillance or attack on passing targets.
“The fun starts when the robots begin to build robots”
Terminator wasn’t science fiction, it was prophecy…
Robots and AI are starting to make a nuclear exchange look preferable. One way to avoid an AI Aimageddon: nuke the data centers, and soon!