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2026-09-03 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Thai resort city cracks down on prostitution ahead of USS Abraham Lincoln arrival

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-09-03 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [270 views ] Top

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Well "Son of a gun" isn't in the picture this shore leave.

Posted by NN2N1 2026-09-03 04:41|| 2026-09-03 04:41|| Front Page Top

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Aren't Aircraft carriers a 70 year old thing of the past, given Drone delivery technology and 1000 drone swarms?

Russia seems be an example to some degree.

Posted by NN2N1 2026-09-03 10:01|| 2026-09-03 10:01|| Front Page Top

3 Sort of, maybe, until they become a mothership of motherships with an effective laser point defense. Underwater drones might be a bit trickier, perhaps a job for the escort ships, like a modified Besson.

Posted by swksvolFF 2026-09-03 12:14|| 2026-09-03 12:14|| Front Page Top

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But they are also a Big picture/ MSM PR Target and take weeks to deploy.

Plus they no longer secretly, deploy as they could in the past, given the free public tracking technologies.

So shouldn't we already be looking at reducing the modern naval warfare role, that uses ships with 100 plus personnel?
After all it's combat technology dating back to Egyptian Pharaoh & Viking times. Which demands far more daily support resources than a drone fleet, once deployed.

So should we be moving to multi-use and one-time use attack/surveillance drone mass delivery platforms?

Since it seems modern warfare has moved from who can kill the most troops to gain an immediate battlefield. To who can attack the enemies heart, military HQ bases and inflect massive Civilian infrastructure destruction from 1000's of miles away from the front lines.

Front lines, which are usually small offensive groups sent on missions and less likely a staged Troop Division like in the past wars.

Posted by 2026-09-03 12:42|| 2026-09-03 12:42|| Front Page Top

5 Battlespace has many dimensions.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-09-03 13:30|| 2026-09-03 13:30|| Front Page Top

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