What happens in 2025? / new tactics- new technologies

[MarkSheppard]

More details on the Israeli Lasers:

https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1927975238349836451

The Israel Defense Force and Defense Ministry have revealed that a low-powered prototype variant of the “Iron Beam” Laser-Weapon Air Defense System has been in active service with the military since at least 2024.

The system was reportedly deployed on the border between Israel and Lebanon at the height of last year’s fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, being used to successfully intercept a number of one-way attack drones launched by Hezbollah against communities in Northern Israel, with each interception only costing between $1-5, compared to the thousands for each shot of the Iron Dome.

Footage of both the system and several of its interceptions have been released by the IDF, with the full-power variant of the “Iron Beam” expected to enter service later this year with the Israeli Air Defense Command.

Apparently the schedule is for three full powered Iron Beam systems in service by 1Q 2026.

[MarkSheppard]

https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status...21043071389723

Russians release video of Chinese Low-Altitude Laser Defending System (LASS) used to shoot down Ukrainian UAVs in combat zone

(go to link for video)

[MarkSheppard]

More details coming out of the testing of Leonidas High Power Microwave (HPM) weapon (aka a radar turned into a bug zapper)

https://www.technologyreview.com/202...itary-defense/

The Army awarded Epirus a $66 million contract in early 2023, topped that up with another $17 million last fall, and is currently deploying a handful of the systems for testing with US troops in the Middle East and the Pacific. (The Army won’t get into specifics on the location of the weapons in the Middle East but published a report of a live-fire test in the Philippines in early May.)

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Tyler Miller, a senior systems engineer on Epirus’s weaponeering team, told me that they never know exactly which part of the target drone is going to go down first [from a HPM blast], but they’ve reliably seen the microwave signal get in somewhere to overload a circuit. “Based on the geometry and the way the wires are laid out,” he said, one of those wires is going to be the best path in. “Sometimes if we rotate the drone 90 degrees, you have a different motor go down first,” he added.

The team has even tried wrapping target drones in copper tape, which would theoretically provide shielding, only to find that the microwave still finds a way in through moving propeller shafts or antennas that need to remain exposed for the drone to fly.

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Epirus is also currently working on an even smaller version of the Leonidas that can mount on top of the Army’s Stryker combat vehicles, and it’s testing out attaching a single microwave unit to a small airborne drone, which could work as a highly focused zapper to disable cars, data centers, or single enemy drones.

[DRG]

Thoughts on the Booker

It did exist in the testing phase for about a year and I have lots of room in the USA extention OOB so I was thinking of leaving it in from 4/124-5/125 for "what if"
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[whdonnelly]

I'd love to play it and see how it stands up compared to some of the other 40 ton options.

[DRG]

There will be a "Booker Platoon" and "Booker Section" 4/ 2024 - 5/2025 in the USA extention OOB which is accessable when clicking on the ALLIES button in the purchace menu.

[FASTBOAT TOUGH]

Am I to "assume" that by having the extended OOBs under the allies that we can't use them to build/or use them for our "core" units in the game?

Just trying to understand how that relationship will work based on what's been posted.

Just "chalk it up" the question to my lack of technical knowledge in game design.

Also I'm sure sometime in the "deep past" this might've been asked but, will a plane or jet coming on the map with a couple of AA missiles attack say, enemy helicopters that might already be on the map it sees?

To "BOOKER" under the conditions you posted-why not (Though now I wish I hadn't ditched my build info-oh well!?! Best I can say was I had it slightly better than BRADLEY in armor except for the latest on in service now.) it might provide some interesting game play.

That'll be a much more realistic situation then is what you can call the South African Army at his time all I can say is "there will be blood" in that OOB. Corruption, incompentance and more. It would be a "Best Selling" novel of fiction if it wasn't for the fact it's a shameful but true story.

Also I found a piece of new equipment that will transcend BOTH games within the last week quite by accident but fully verified none the less.

Regards,
Pat

[DRG]

Pat........ The ALLIES button can be clearly seen as accessible when buying your core. You can test that quite easily



SO YES the extention OOB's can be used to build your core

[Killbasa]

In both my copies of WinSPWW2 and WinSPMBT I can only buy allied/captured units after I’m done buying core campaign units. The ‘Allies’ option is absent until I press ‘Done’ and move to the support unit purchase screen. Is the ability to purchase allied/captured units for your core campaign force new for the next update or is there something I’m not doing right?

[scorpio_rocks]

Am I too am missing something...


You can have allies in a battle "core" but NOT in a campaign core: