• ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 hours ago

    This puts the famous RF focus on jamming into perspective for me. I always just viewed it as an in-the-moment countermeasure by whoever’s being targeted, but I realize now that it’s an active strategy of attrition warfare. Our MIC is built around extracting maximum profit per unit rather than pumping out maximum units. So the jamming of very expensive special weapons has the downstream effect of depleting all the cheaper generalist weapons as well. Every Eaglepatriotshadow missile that whiffs also means hundreds of dumbrockets fired to make up the difference, and those things can’t be replaced quickly anymore. Nothing can.