{"id":39635,"date":"2025-03-24T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=39635"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:09:14","slug":"the-century-long-reign-of-the-machine-gun-is-over-a-russian-strategist-argues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=39635","title":{"rendered":"The century-long reign of the machine gun is over, a Russian strategist argues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/67d30a59b8b41a9673fa8ea7?width=1200&amp;format=jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"154\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">A Russian strategist said small FPV drones had made infantry weapons such as machine guns and mortars obsolete. A US expert said that was &#8220;crazy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-fpv-drone-machine-gun-infantry-weapons-2025-3\">The century-long reign of the machine gun is over, a Russian strategist argues<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian strategist said small FPV drones had made infantry weapons such&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1233,402,474,56],"class_list":["post-39635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-drones","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39637,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39635\/revisions\/39637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}