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23 June 2026

Modern technology can do some amazing things.

Take, for example, the way that drone technology has changed the theatre of modern warfare and created (as I predicted back in 2003) a huge imbalance between the power of cheap weapons versus that of expensive ones.

Today, a $500 FPV drone, armed with a shaped-charge explosive, can take out a multi-million dollar tank or helicopter. This creates a hugely asymetric war where simply throwing more money at a conflict does not guarantee a win.

Of course the governments of the world are finally wising up to the threat that these low-cost "suicide drone" technologies now pose (it only took 25 years for them to do-so, despite my warnings back at the turn of the century).

So now, the big rush is for Counter UAS (CUAS) anti-drone technologies that can be used to protect civilian/domestic targets from the threat of terror or other attacks on critical infrastructure.

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Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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