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Apr 11Liked by Francis Turner

But on the bright side, the US is the only country to have male & female & neuter drones, and in different colors as well. That has to count for something, no?

We used to have a lot of small machine shops capable of making items like drones, without a lot of government "oversight". Many of these are gone - maybe thanks to the oversight. Could be with our new socialist govt, we'll be able to use those old-school rocks & slings to fight future wars.

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Apr 12Liked by Francis Turner

"A fleet that is stuck in port behind harbor walls, booms and nets for fear of attack as soon as it sorties is not in fact a threat that needs a major counter-threat."

Taranto, November 1940, Royal Navy carrier biplane torpedo bombers, Fairey Swordfishes, the same type planes that would disable the Bismarck in mid-Atlantic in May 1941, eviscerate the excellent Italian fleet in port.

Mitsuo Fuchida, "The World At War" episode "On Our Way", notes "we [Japanese] learned very much from the British ability to launch aerial torpedoes in shallow water and used that knowledge to plan our Pearl Harbor attack".

The offense/defense cycle has been going on for some time now.

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