Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Most future warfare will include drones, hacking, jamming and sowing confustion

The biggest change I believe in developed nations waging warfare or police actions (police actions are more common than all out wars like World War II). Because of nuclear weapons all out wars (at least between developed nations likely aren't going to happen). So, we are talking mostly about police actions like against ISIS or against other terrorist threats to the western world from various sources.

The biggest change likely won't be drones with hellfire missiles because they have been in place through the CIA or other military groups worldwide now since around 2002 or before when they combined a Hellfire anti-tank weapon with the drones to take out people in vehicles below.

The single biggest change is likely going to be EMP generators that will make all cars, trucks, computers, and cell phones defunct permanently by causing irrepairable shorts in their electrical systems.

However, many developed nations have learned to rewire their tanks and other vehicles (not sure this works with planes, however.) So, an electromagnetic pulse around a plane like a jet likely would bring it down and if ejection seats are electrical rather than mechanical and explosive then pilots would die in the EMP. But, Electromagnetic pulses similar to the ones seen after nuclear blasts can now be generated by equipment on the battlefield to knock out all electrical devices of the enemy as long as it doesn't also knock out all electrical devices of one's own army or air force too.

The most recent jamming event by the Royal Air Force of England is here in this article:

Islamic State scrambles as British forces shut dow...

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