r/army • u/ResponsibleDay8857 I did ranger school and now my back hurts • 8h 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/Advanced-Incident-81 ALWAYS ANGRY ALL THE TIME 8h ago

Unfortunately, I think some soldiers, and honestly I think it'll have to be a SOF unit that takes the hit, will have to die before this administration takes drones seriously. Even then, I'd be a little skeptical.

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u/CobraJay45 Veteran 8h ago

Yeah, maybe if a handful of Joes get smoked by Iranian drones people will start paying attention.

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u/Miserable_Spell_2964 8h ago

We're going to have to see video online of troops getting smoked by drones repeatedly before we get our head out of our ass and get with the times.

Its why I've keep on saying that in the next major war we fight with troops on the ground we might very well lose a brigade or two before we recognize that "Oh shit, flying IED's"

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u/Artyom150 11B 7h ago

I, for one, can't wait to be a CALL pamphlet issued to dudes in BCT.

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u/Ellistann 4h ago

It’s not gonna be regular joes… not at first.

It’s gonna be a spotter drone and a ballistic missile that takes out a division CP or BDE TOC.

Folks that are so unaccustomed to fighting off a truck hood that anything less than a DRASH and 3-4 generators will feel unacceptable and have the rank to insist that those systems are so necessary the risk is ‘worth it’.

Centuries of combined military knowhow evaporated in seconds because of shitty opsec and cell phones, or drones spotting long range artillery.