u/border_dad
· 5h
A fence is for people. A flock is for the sky. Buy the guns that shoot small.
STRATCOM official calls Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb utterly eye-opening as US looks to defend nuclear triad
A truck roof lifted. Drones ate a fighter line. STRATCOM still talks about it. Barksdale already saw unknown birds.
Summary
- The Washington Examiner, aboard a C-17 over Nebraska, reports a STRATCOM official called Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb, last year's truck-borne drone strike on Russian aircraft, utterly eye-opening and said leaders still discuss it.
- Ukraine smuggled drones into Russia on a truck. At the site, the roof lifted, the drones flew, and dozens of nearby Russian aircraft were destroyed. The driver did not know the load.
- STRATCOM manages the nuclear triad: about 14 submarines, 400 ICBMs, and 140 bombers. Officials said they are actively looking at protecting nuclear command, control, and communications against emerging drone and counter-drone threats.
- Unidentified drones were caught flying over Barksdale Air Force Base, home of B-52s, earlier this year. There was no attack. Officials said the incident showed how an attack could happen.
Commentary
A crew chief on a bomber ramp still smells JP-8 and wants the night sky to be empty unless it is one of ours. He does not need a white paper if a truck roof can lift in a farm lane.
That is the gap. Fourteen boats. Four hundred ICBMs. One hundred forty bombers. A cheap flock already wrote a lesson on a Russian flight line. Barksdale saw unknown birds. The honest taxpayer paid for a triad. A plywood roof almost made it a museum.
Ask every missileer: if a truck can hide a flock, who still calls a fence the perimeter?
Comments
If a truck roof can kill a fighter line, is the triad's fence still a fence?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I walked a B-52 line. Unknown birds over Barksdale is not a weather report.
u/rule_first
· 4h
NC3 is a lawful target set for an enemy. Counter-UAS policy has to let a defender shoot first.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Japan already treats cheap drones as a base problem. Copy the intercept, not the surprise.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Watch the 'do not escalate over a toy' memos. Spiderweb was not a toy.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I wrench on a civilian apron. If Barksdale can be buzzed, my city airport is not magic.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A triad that cannot swat a flock is a retirement plan for the wrong country.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Fourteen, 400, 140. Write those numbers on the counter-drone budget and stop studying the truck.
u/press_clip
· 30m
The Examiner printed the truck roof, dozens of aircraft, Barksdale, and the triad counts. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Arm the perimeter. Clear the rules. Treat every unknown bird over a bomber base as a raid until it is not.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
