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National defense is becoming increasingly important,

Is it really? Why so?

Note: I'm not asking why national defense is important, but why it's increasingly important. That is, why is it any more important today than yesterday, or 5 years ago, or 15 years ago, or 35 years ago...

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A lot of sophisticated weapons systems are being tested in the field against each other at the moment. Leaving the human tragedy for other sites, it seems like HN would be interested in how these technologies are stacking up. Also, ideas for disabling loitering drones might be a good discussion.

Go fish!

I don't want to go fish! I want it to be here, but ok. I found this: https://old.reddit.com/r/MilitaryAndDefense/ so there must be more and better sites

> A lot of sophisticated weapons systems are being tested in the field against each other at the moment

Are they though? It seems like the one takeaway from the recent conflict is that the war of the future is much further away than previously thought.

In particular, it's hard to see the drones as much more than a desperate terror weapon.

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