France Turns Mirage 2000D Fighters Into Shahed Hunters After Lessons From Ukraine

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1. How long until all drones are these small undetectable FPV drones

2. Nice, sending an extra 400+ geran 2 would likely be the response. But then again France and Russia conflict is still far off, almost not possible.

   No one is using Shahed in Ukraine however. Lots of cope here

3. It’s awesome to see countries thinking about drone defense these days. Only took watching 3+ years of all out drone warfare in Ukraine to take some useful steps to counter it. At the start of the war NATO began training Ukrainians but it should probably be the other way around now.

4. Looks like the missile they use is 10 times cheaper than a Shaed drone. It seems to be an appropriate response.

   It feels like the Ukraine conflict gives us a wrong idea of what a modern day conflict would be: air is not contested whereas it would be the most important battle in e.g. a Russia-NATO conflict. Ukraine was given cutting edge anti-air weapon and 90s fighter jets.

   Drones (and artillery!) are likely far less usable if the enemy has air superiority.

5. The T-90 isn’t a threat to anyone. Ramping up means what? Two tanks a month.

6. Bring back the big AA guns, Bofors 57mm naval could fit on big trucks….

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