Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry
by jay_kyburz on Sunday November 09, 2025 @11:28PM
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Yeah, so much drama around the gigantic submarines, we should be building water drones of some kind.
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Re:How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry
by XorNot on Monday November 10, 2025 @02:45AM
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We literally are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Shark_(submarine)
But they don't do everything, and frankly drones are very overstated: they're not magic, and the idea of fielding masses of things when your adversary is at least China backed is pretty farcical: we can't ever win a conflict on cheap mass production because we don't have it.
So a handful of hard hitting long range weapons is going to be a key part of the strategy: because if we can't hit the factories, we can't win period.