How has jungle warfare changed in the last 50 years?
>>64701995people get mad at you when you burn down entire forests with napalm.
>>64701995Yes, there's drones now. All warfare has changed.
>>64702021Well when I was last in the jungle there was 80in of rain, power was only 12 volt in the day, and the township power was only 120 for 4 hours a day.as such, internet was extremely limited and bandwidth was unheard of.Radio controlled drones, yes. but limited to observation. military grade RC is not cheap and they suffered a high attrition rate due to humidity, dense terrain, dropouts, operator error. The terrain was so dense that they were really only used by town barracks. We didn't have quad-copters back then, they make better kill drones, I got to play with them when I got home. But there are still the same limitations. The Li batteries operate best at 30-70 charge, their notional 100% charge is a spook. With modern ones you can quick-change the batteries but your loiter time is still limited to the 70% capacity of a single battery. And there's a significant issue of where you take off and land, even with clever setups where they take off remotely to give you some time to get out of the immediate vicinity, recovering them is often more risk than it is worth. we usually just flew them to ambush positions and hoped that insurgents would follow the low battery drone into indefensible positions.Because of the dense terrain operational tempo is often painfully slow, it takes days to get men into position, and men will often spend 18 hours just lying motionless in the mud. the AI on modern drones picks up movement very well, but in dense terrain everything is moving. and when it comes to IR/thermals they don't perform nearly so well, especially in high temperatures. Ukraine, the snow, yes. 80 degree jungles? not so much. the more water is in the environment the harder it is to get a differential. If I'm lying in a puddle, there's no clear separation between my temperature, and the puddles temperature.It's very hard for me to post at the moment so this might be a slow thread
>>64702021Jungles are probably the place where drones are the least effective.
