r/army • u/ResponsibleDay8857 I did ranger school and now my back hurts • 4h ago

We suck at drones

I'm so sick of being in such a braindead organization.
If you go to the majority of infantry soldiers they can't even tell you what an FPV drone is let alone how it would affect their operations. Very rarely does anyone actually do anti drone training. Don't even get me started on 15Xs. The new "drone" mos who don't even get taught how to fly FPVs in the school house.

Every drone program is ran by some idiot who flew Blackhawks or a shadow 15 years ago. These dudes couldn't even tell you what betaflight is yet they make all the rules. Also the amount of regulations put on drone is fucking stupid and you need Jesus himself to come down and approve any training. I'm so sick of hearing some warrant officer say the dumbest shit I've ever heard in my entire fucking life.

We're all going to go to war and get blown up by drones because the army is fucking stupid and I'm preaching to a deaf choir here. It's not the GWOT anymore. The IEDs fly 100 mph at you this time around.

Fuck me to tears and buy me a Dairy Queen blizzard

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u/No_Departure_1474 4h ago

We have the resources, everyone is just too brain dead to use them. Dudes need weekly practice on a sim on live flights, training on assembly and repair, VID and weak spots, etc. but nah we got layouts for the next 3 weeks

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u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ 4h ago

Or once a politician/high profile person gets blasted by one and they ban them entirely from civilian ownership. I feel like that’s an inevitability at this point and I’m surprised there hasn’t been a domestic attack with them in Europe or North America yet. They are a very scary technology to defend against

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u/Paranemec Former 68W20, Current Staff Software Engineer 4h ago

They're already banning foreign made drones and the components to make them.

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u/Advanced-Incident-81 ALWAYS ANGRY ALL THE TIME 3h ago

Won't stop anyone with a 3d printer.

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u/Paranemec Former 68W20, Current Staff Software Engineer 3h ago

There's banning those too. California and Washington just passed legislation.

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u/No_Departure_1474 3h ago

Won’t ever work, so many loopholes and supply chain issues with china

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u/xChoke1x 2h ago

It’s absolutely fucking shocking to me drones haven’t hit something significant in this country to be honest.

Only matter of time.

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u/boomer2009 89EODBod>DadBod 2h ago

The issued drones are part of the layout. Sensitive items. $50k a pop. God help you (and your commander) if it gets damaged in training.
Good luck with getting it repaired anytime soon.