Wow. Now even S. Korea is playing with drone swarms. Are we keeping up?

 

🇰🇷 South Korea experiments with drone swarms. pic.twitter.com/rtrRVGMBjW

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) May 25, 2024

China put out a video where they put up hundreds of drones in a swarm. Now the S. Koreans. If I missed let me know but I haven't seen a vid from the US doing the same. Haven't seen it from our European allies either. Are we keeping up or just watching our competitors doing the damn thing? Remember industrial power too. S. Korea is a manufacturing powerhouse. China? Most definitely. I have seen no indications that show our defense sector has geared up and is ready to produce at scale for a peer war. We talk all this shit but we're doing nothing. I always thought that this interoperability talking point was a holdover from the war on terror. I see its part of the planning but the idiots in the Pentagon fail to realize the obvious. All these partner nations will sit out a fight between the US and China. They'll watch it carefully but they won't take a side. The Pacific just ain't built that way. Too many generational issues that have yet to be resolved. Even Japan and S. Korea have threatened to cross swords so them joining a fight will be "problematic". The US lion is roaring but the teeth behind that roar are dull. The best we can do is hope to bluff....or push the nuclear option. Either way if the shooting starts we lose. Too many alliances, too many commitments, too little military, non-existant public support for new adventures and weak/feckless leadership in Washington. Yeah. We're fucked.