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This is an interesting video regarding how motorcycles are used in current military operations. along with some relatively recent history that was news to me. As usual you will need to avoid the ads if you want to get to the meat of the subject. During the last 5 minutes is a discussion about using electric motorcycles to accomplish missions, their advantages and significant drawbacks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDm53l5z9sM

Forget the MC. Use drones to improve infantry safety.

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Forget the MC. Use drones to improve infantry safety.

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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #2

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Forget the MC. Use drones to improve infantry safety.

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Forget motorcycles and drones...use AI robots. "Terminator" warfare. Especially good if all sides in war use them. Short-circuit a robot, no blood, no family notification, just a requistion to the IT department for another "Mark II v.3" infantryman.

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Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #3

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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #2

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Forget the MC. Use drones to improve infantry safety.

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Forget motorcycles and drones...use AI robots. "Terminator" warfare. Especially good if all sides in war use them. Short-circuit a robot, no blood, no family notification, just a requistion to the IT department for another "Mark II v.3" infantryman.

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Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #3

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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #2

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Forget the MC. Use drones to improve infantry safety.

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Forget motorcycles and drones...use AI robots. "Terminator" warfare. Especially good if all sides in war use them. Short-circuit a robot, no blood, no family notification, just a requistion to the IT department for another "Mark II v.3" infantryman.

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Drones retain "human in the loop". I'm not suggesting anything that removes the human from the decision loop.

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DHS, DOE and EPA maintain/support the Critical Infrastructure Security Agency which monitors attacks and performs stress tests. Excluding 4 years of funding cuts and no agency head, it's been an ongoing effort since post 9-11. Attacks have been routine and often occur with impending severe weather.

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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #5

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Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #3

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Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #2

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Forget the MC. Use drones to improve infantry safety.

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Forget motorcycles and drones...use AI robots. "Terminator" warfare. Especially good if all sides in war use them. Short-circuit a robot, no blood, no family notification, just a requistion to the IT department for another "Mark II v.3" infantryman.

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Drones retain "human in the loop". I'm not suggesting anything that removes the human from the decision loop.

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I read once that the next great world war would not be military, but economic. With cyber attacks increasing and our almost-total reliance on an interconnected "world wide web", the vulnerabilities today make actual combat seem archaic. Drones can be hacked, and humans...well, I think they've already been hacked.

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it doesn't take much as evidenced by the impact on Europe when gas pipelines from Russia were compromised. Now they are reliant on India buying Russian LNG and selling it to Europe at inflated prices!

If China takes control of Taiwan and effectively seizes control of most of the global semi-conductor fabrication then there will be massive economic consequences everywhere.

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the big problem for Europe is that less gas is coming in by pipeline from the east and more is being shipped in tankers, including from the USA. The UK already has ports that take LNG into the mains gas grid. Germany has had to build a massive new port to compensate for the lower amount of piped LNG.
It's not just the base cost of the LNG, which as you show, is relatively low, it's the cost of distribution and this will go up now that shipping companies are boycotting the Suez Canal due to Somali Pirates and Houthis sponsored by Iran.

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Apparently, we have capacity.

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probably the main reason your economy has not tanked, so to speak

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We could have trashed all of our trade agreements like some countries, but instead just stayed the course. Yep, we are shifting electric power production to NG and renewables, away from costly to-operate and relatively low-efficiency old coal plants. Current regenerative NG plants are approaching 60% efficiency levels and wind & solar generators are offering electric service at rates lower than traditional generators.