Demonstration of new warfare shown in missile ambush of USS Truman a $13billion floating fortress

On  April 2025 was subjected to a multi vector attack of drones and ballistic system from Houthis  from Yemen

     Missile and drone ambush at seas

1.  The destroyers were equipped with combat system that monitored the attack  However the attackers had electronic system to blind the radars of the battle group with  electromagnetic countermeasures (USS  Gravely and Mason) 12 km away with their Aegis System.    Drones were flown in to seek weakness of the battle group weapons system

    The attack was neutralized.   No lives  were lost no aircraft was damaged

    Definitely the warfare has changed. 

2.  The counter attack featured traditional defense:

     Hawkeye flew to seek out targets to share with  battle group.   The enemies launched from mobile launchers

3.  The main weapon was not the usual Dome or Patriot system but something else

    Silent warfare.

     Electromagnetic countermeasures so that the drones and missile control is lost and they simply fall from the skies

     -     from Growlers

     -     from Gravely and Mason   SLK 32  - silent warfare.   SLK 32 sent powerful  signals to disable drones

        It saved resupply of munitions.   And was more effective

If Russia used this vs Ukraine, or Israel vs Iran.

US thus despite huge costs read the way defense and attack in the age of missiles can be fought silently

No furher need for CAT, conscripts, ROTC - here comes robotic soldiers

 This is a reason to rejoice.  No fiurther need for ROTC, CAT, mobilization  No further fear, injuries or deaths in training.   Less widows and orphans,  Citizens can enjoy their domestic duties and vacations

Weapons of choice in the future of war?

 Defense planners are rethinking about the investments they have to make.  Some weapons have become vulnerable and thus are obsolete in the future wars.  Battleships were rendered obsolete in WWII by aircraft carriers.   Aircraft carriers in WW2 in the Pacific showed the aircraft carriers to be superior.  But that was 80 years ago.

We can array the weapons as preferred:  more agile, cheaper, and less vulnerable:

1.  Drones  for surveillance and offensive purposes

2.  Smart bombs

3.  Unmanned aierial land, sea vehicles

4  Air defense system

5.  Long range smart missles

6.  Loitering munitions

7.  Robot soldiers  (Roman)

Obsolete

1.  Aircraft carriers

2.  Battleships, cruisers, destroyers

3.  Traditional infantry

4.  Manned tanks

Will AI and software rule the future wars?

All ready there are weapons that are available:

1  Unmanned aerial vehicles, (also sea and land robots)  Similar to transformers

2.  Autonomous weaposn that can determine friend and foe (employing similar technology to  self driving vehicles

3.  Cheap drones that can fight infantry (tanks and soldiers alike)

Questions:

1.  Does this lessen guilt for killing enemies?

2.  What happens to errors in enganing the friendly forces causing deaths?

3.  Will autronomous weapons fight back vs the operators or creators.

 

Is US $800 billion weapons program sustainable?

 Is US $800 billion weapons program/expenditure sustainable?

It is increasingly becoming expensive to have the biggest war arsenal in the world.  To be the defenders or democracy in the world.  

Weapoons equippped with high tech are becoming more expensive to build.   A Gerald Ford class aircraft carrier costs $13 billion to build (taking five years)  An F35 will set you back by $100 ++ excluding the sustainment (maintenance cost)  That isi too much burden for taxpayers to sustain.   With staggering  $35 trillion in debt, there will be taxpayers revolvt.

Elsewhere in the world, the Hamas and Houthi have shown that they can manufacture cheap rockets that can overwhelm the more expensive Iron Dome or Patriot Air defense system.    See how the cheap Russian drones are wrecking havoc on the  multi million dollar Abrams tanks.  And how the cheap shoulder launched weapons from Ukrained are destroying expensive Russian aircraft.

Very soon US taxpayers will search for cheaper weapons that 1.  survival,  2 are not vulnerable, 3.  will not cause death of US military.  (are survivable)

Will future wars be fought like Enders Game?

 It might be.   With increasing use of unmanned sea, land, and air vehicles,  with increasing use of autonomous robots and drones, this could be very well the trend.  No need for large armies, huge arsenal of deadly weapons.  Only kids who are well versed in games - video games.  They can determine the outcome of human civilization

It might be less taxing on resources, less mortality -  thereofore politically and economically palatable.

Let it be.

Unmanned surface vessels - future of warfare