In 21st century warfare, speed counts as armor - /pol/ (#509857982) [Archived: 597 hours ago]

Anonymous ID: 5SZK48ULUnited States
7/8/2025, 9:49:40 PM No.509857982
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The Russians have been relentlessly mocked for their usage of Motorcycles and "Golf Carts" on the battlefield, but now Ukraine is starting to adopt the same thing. Many of you might recall that this happened earlier on in the war with those so called "cope cages" that the Russians put on their tanks and everyone mocked them for, but even as the rest of the world mocked them for it, they also quietly added those same "cope cages" to their own tanks. Why because it worked? But the Russians were the innovators of it. Everyone does it, but only they got mocked for it. And now the same is happening with these motorcycle assault units.

Do you know why this is happening? Its because FPV drones have made tanks pretty much obsolete on the battlefield. Any tank you put into battle will just end up droned and destroyed like it was nothing. Armor is pointless now. It offers no defense whatsoever.

The only defense that exists anymore is speed. You can't survive getting hit by a drone, but if you move as fast as possible it might be possible to avoid getting hit by a drone entirely. Tanks move relatively slowly and their armor is useless, so your best option is a motorcycle which does away with armor entirely and focuses on pure speed. Go flying at like 100+ mph across a field and maybe you'll reach the objective before the drone operators have time to react. Have a whole swarm of motorcycles going at this speed and it makes it impossible for them all to be taken out (if any can even be hit at all).

So go ahead and laugh at it if you want, but it works. Its the way that wars are going to have to be from here on out. You have the drone fags to blame for this. Tanks are much cooler I agree, but the Drone fags fucked everything up and made warfare gay now.
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Anonymous ID: E34N53lfDenmark
7/8/2025, 9:51:48 PM No.509858165
>>509857982 (OP)
>Many of you might recall that this happened earlier on in the war with those so called "cope cages" that the Russians put on their tanks and everyone mocked them for, but even as the rest of the world mocked them for it, they also quietly added those same "cope cages" to their own tanks. Why because it worked? But the Russians were the innovators of it. Everyone does it, but only they got mocked for it
They got mocked because they tried it against ATGMs at a time where drones were rare.
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Anonymous ID: 3cDQC7nyUnited States
7/8/2025, 9:52:35 PM No.509858223
what if they just dug tunnels so the drones can't see them underground
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Anonymous ID: uUEIiPHEUnited States
7/8/2025, 9:52:43 PM No.509858234
>>509857982 (OP)
The fact that so many of you keep treating this "war" like it's real is astounding
Anonymous ID: J2lETiGB
7/8/2025, 9:57:19 PM No.509858602
>>509857982 (OP)
>heavily armored motorcycle squadrons have now become a viable thing
Final Fantasy 7 prepared me for this.

>>509858223
DAMN IT DANIEL! WE'RE TRYING TO KEEP THE SUBTERRANEAN WARS A SECRET!
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Anonymous ID: XXs3xHki
7/8/2025, 10:04:06 PM No.509859136
>>509857982 (OP)
not my problem
Anonymous ID: QKW3FGr5Germany
7/8/2025, 10:13:23 PM No.509859837
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>>509857982 (OP)
AGAIN AHEAD OF TIME!
Anonymous ID: 5SZK48ULUnited States
7/8/2025, 10:15:27 PM No.509860012
>>509858602
>heavily armored motorcycle squadrons have now become a viable thing
Nah, they're not armored at all. Speed is their only "armor".
Anonymous ID: Ah5NN8fEUnited States
7/8/2025, 10:16:39 PM No.509860105
>>509858223
>what if they just dug tunnels so the drones can't see them underground
russians took two major cities that way, one in russia (sudzha) and one in ukraine (avdiivka)
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Anonymous ID: Uvor2NLQNetherlands
7/8/2025, 10:18:02 PM No.509860219
>>509857982 (OP)
the Taliban did it first
Anonymous ID: FbjxFZHqUnited States
7/8/2025, 10:18:02 PM No.509860221
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>>509857982 (OP)
The Russians started doing this 2 years ago, and Hohols laughed at them.
No wonder Hohols are losing the war, they're 2 years behind the tactical curve.
Anonymous ID: ONTN54WqRussian Federation
7/8/2025, 10:27:57 PM No.509861023
>>509860105
I wouldn't call them major. They don't even qualify as cities, more like villages
Anonymous ID: kDvq23nJSpain
7/8/2025, 10:34:24 PM No.509861567
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>>509857982 (OP)
Motorcycle squadrons are the 21st century version of dragoons, mounted infantry that dismounts to fight but has the mobility of cavalry. It is without a doubt the coolest and most kino fighting unit to come out of this war. hopefully they bring back 19th century dragoon uniforms sometime soon.
Anonymous ID: askIMByHCanada
7/8/2025, 10:36:04 PM No.509861690
>>509858165
Also the us put them on brads and strykers for rpgs like what, 20 years ago?
Anonymous ID: v1XnGxOsUnited Kingdom
7/8/2025, 10:54:27 PM No.509863315
>>509858165
They got mocked because only troons support ukraine and troons know nothing about anything besides grooming children. Same as they got mocked for 'egg box armour' which was the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard as it was totally standard ablative armour that only a retard would look at, fail to figure out what this shit hanging off a tank could be, and then say it was egg boxes