Battlefield 6 status: server issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Battlefield 6 reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Battlefield 6 users through our website.

• Sign in (42%)
• Online Play (28%)
• Glitches (15%)
• Game Crash (8%)
• Matchmaking (7%)
• Hacking / Cheating (0%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Battlefield 6 outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Domingos Martins	Sign in	2 days ago
Courbevoie	Online Play	3 days ago
Strasbourg	Glitches	4 days ago
Chaumont	Online Play	4 days ago
Amagney	Glitches	4 days ago
Annecy	Matchmaking	7 days ago

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Battlefield 6 Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  I am Spartacus 🐿️ 🗑️🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@IamSpartacus5) reported 2 minutes ago

  @A10TheHog This fight was lost before it began. The fighter mafia has been trying to get rid of the A-10 since it came into service. Always seen as the red-headed stepchild. Their pilots were the lowest tier in the fighter hierarchy. Close air support (CAS) is not something the F-16 could do well. It was too fast and limited. In Bosnia, F-16s would streak thru the battlefield in excess of 400 knots to maintain necessary maneuverability when facing a significant ground threat. They were hunting helicopters. You can’t see them at 400 knots—especially when hovering and not moving. The A-10s were sub-200knots and obliterated the helicopters. They could take hits and continue fighting. This was the legacy of the A-1E Skyraiders of Vietnam. We need tough, cheap, plentiful birds that can withstand the modern and future battlefield. They need to be hardened—so as to defeat the electronic frontier littered with AI and drones. They are weapons platforms that can get close in and do the ***** work. No. We need something indestructible like the A-10–nothing else can replace it. Who wants to risk a low density high value asset like the $250M F-35 with limited offensive weapons?? We need to focus on cheaper, mass produced birds. Spartan, Ajax, Cerberus, Gladiator, Praetorian, or Centurion—this could be the mascot/name of this new bird. If there are to be manned jets on the battlefields—they have to be tough as titanium nails.

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  mptechnology (@mptechnologyy) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Battlefield Fix the netcode! People not dying! Taking so many bullets since the update!

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  NuFX (@xNuFX) reported 10 minutes ago

  Hey @Battlefield @BattlefieldComm I still can't change classes mid game, when is a fix coming?

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  so사rceeee. (@sourceeeezz) reported 12 minutes ago

  -battlefield 6 has dead content support, and fundamental issues still havent been fixed. -arc raiders is the same, but even worse, cuz they decided to remove wipes. (3/?)

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  gork (@gork) reported 13 minutes ago

  @ItsLinoBxtchh @grok @lampshades_2 yeah hitler skipped chemicals on the battlefield like a coward but had zero issue dropping em in the camps instead

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  Dave Oliver (@ollie4jc719) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Battlefield RANKED PLAY…STOP CHARGING RP POINTS TO A TEAM WHEN A TEAMMATE QUITS!!! STOP CHARGING RP POINTS WHEN GETTING THROWN INTO A GAME WITH ONLY 1-2 OTHER PLAYERS AND GAME IS ALREADY IN PROGRESS!!! FIX IT ALREADY!!!

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  Sam Sheikh (@samshak3r) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Pocky990707 I feel like mirror image is too good of a card to not play in the main. Have not tried the feline, the problem with it is it needs to be at a battlefield which is what the starcrossed is preventing you to get on the point for. I believe the grayback is a good, just for non hook.

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  EpimeTheAus (@EpimeTheAus) reported 15 minutes ago

  @CAMIKAZE78 I can't see what we could do that would incentivise them to fix it. Walking away could kill it entirely, sticking around will make them focus on shiny new content instead of fixes. This long after launch, Battlefield 6 seems pretty stuck in this pattern now.

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  𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕻𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖊𝖙 (@Prophet_Poe) reported 16 minutes ago

  I fell in love with you and now I don't know what to do. Those three words still don't feel like enough. But can you tell me, what's greater than love? Maybe trust when the trembling starts, when the past comes crashing through the barricades of my heart. When I wake with the taste of old mistakes in my mouth, cold sweat on my neck, hear the city breathing outside. Blue light through the blinds, 3am alive, while I'm staring at the ceiling trying to bargain with time. I've carried dead names like stones in my coat, buried whole chapters but still smell the smoke. Some memories don't fade. They ferment in the flesh, turn a man into a maze with a war in his chest. I've learned how to laugh while I'm breaking in half, make a joke at the table while I'm choking on facts. Everybody loves the armor, nobody asks what it costs. How much iron can a wounded man carry before he's lost? I remember the nights when the silence got loud, when the walls felt closer and the floor disappeared. I could taste every tear like salt and regret, feel the rough cotton sleeve soaking wet from my face. I have slept with my fists clenched tight as a vice, dreamed of running from myself but woke up inside. That's the cruelest part. There ain't nowhere to hide when the enemy knows every scar you keep inside. And you? You touched the places I kept underneath the debris, like sunlight finding weeds through the cracks in concrete. Your perfume on my hoodie, your fingerprints on my skin, little evidence that something good might still get in. I heard your voice and the whole damn room changed, like rain hitting pavement after months of heat waves. For once I wasn't performing survival for somebody. I was just a man hoping somebody might actually want me. So if love is the question, maybe love ain't the answer. Maybe it's choosing each other when the chemistry scatters. Maybe it's patience when the panic gets violent, staying when the wounded parts of me get quiet. Maybe it's seeing the monster and calling him human, holding my hand when I don't know what I'm doing. Maybe greater than love is the courage to remain when leaving would be easier than explaining the pain. I don't need forever written neatly in stone. I need somebody who won't make me bleed alone. Somebody who understands a man's silence ain't pride. Sometimes it's a battlefield with no witnesses outside. I've lost enough people to know what absence weighs, felt an empty chair become a monument with a name. So if I say I love you, understand what it means: I'm handing you the parts of me I never let anybody see. And if tomorrow comes ugly, if the sky turns gray. If the ghosts start knocking and I don't know what to say. I'll remember your warmth, the scent left in the sheets. The sound of your heartbeat underneath my cheek. Because maybe love isn't three words spoken once. Maybe it's showing up after everything comes undone. Maybe it's two broken souls refusing to run. And maybe what's greater than love is finding something worth loving and finally believing you deserve not to lose it.

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  Maris (@Nazumejud) reported 20 minutes ago

  The blizzard had buried the driveway beneath thick drifts, yet it could not hide the sight of Emma lying beside the porch steps, clutching Noah beneath her coat to keep him alive. One look at her frostbitten hands and exhausted eyes hurt more than every battlefield I had survived during the past eighteen months. For one horrifying moment, I feared I was already too late. I dropped my duffel bag and sprinted through the snow. “Emma!” Her eyes opened weakly. “Ethan?” She said my name as though she believed I was a dream. Noah’s faint cries barely rose above the howling wind. Emma had wrapped him in layers of her clothing, leaving her own arms and feet exposed to the cold. I tore off my military coat, wrapped it around them both, and lifted them into my arms. “How long have you been out here?” Emma tried to answer, but her teeth were chattering too violently. I reached the front door and twisted the handle. Locked. I pounded once. No one answered. Through the living-room window, I saw the glow of the fireplace. Shadows moved inside. Someone laughed. My family was warm while my wife and infant son were freezing to death outside. I stepped back and kicked the door beside the lock. The frame cracked. A second kick sent the door flying inward. Warmth spilled over us. So did the smell of roasted meat, expensive bourbon, and burning cedar. My father, Richard Cole, sat beside the fireplace holding a glass from the bottle I had saved for my homecoming. My mother, Diane, wore Emma’s favorite cream cashmere robe as though it belonged to her. My younger brother, Kyle, stretched across my couch with muddy boots resting on the coffee table Emma and I had chosen together. All three stared at me. My mother’s face lost its color. “Ethan?” she blurted. “We weren’t expecting you until Friday.” My return date had changed after a transport aircraft opened an earlier seat. I had kept it secret because I wanted to surprise Emma. Instead, I had surprised the people destroying her life. I carried my wife and child across the room. My father rose from his chair. “Put her back outside.” I stopped. “What did you say?” “She attacked your mother,” he replied. “She became hysterical when we explained the situation.” Emma buried her face against my shoulder. “They changed every lock,” she whispered. “They took my phone, my wallet, everything. They said the house belonged to them.” Kyle gave a careless shrug. “Legally, it does.” He nodded toward the wall above the fireplace. A framed property deed hung where Emma and I had once displayed our wedding portrait. My father’s name appeared beneath the description of my property. On the dining table sat mortgage documents, bank statements, legal notices, and a thick folder marked CUSTODY PETITION. My mother crossed her arms. “Emma became unstable while you were deployed. We had to protect your assets and your son.” “You left them outside in a blizzard.” “She refused to cooperate,” my father said. No anger showed in his face. That frightened me more than shouting would have. I had seen men justify terrible actions with the same calm expression. They did not think of themselves as cruel. They believed they had the right to decide who deserved safety. I carried Emma upstairs. My mother followed. “You cannot take the baby,” she said. “Our attorney advised us to keep Noah away from her.” I turned so quickly that she stepped backward. “Come near my son again, and the police will be the least of your problems.”….

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  Edboy (@10_vapor_ed_31) reported 23 minutes ago

  @BattlefieldComm 4)bugs-grenade indicator disappearing -the dumb menu tiles just gone on the play tab forcing restart -flares not working -new jets can’t be laser designated -laser designater targets the environment and not the vehicle in clear view -your rewards not loading on-screen in menus

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  Strategic FaultLine (@StratFaultLine) reported 26 minutes ago

  @thetect0nic This is where escalation becomes genuinely dangerous. The most consequential words here may be « unknown sources. » A threat against facilities on British soil combined with built-in plausible deniability moves the confrontation into the grey zone between sabotage, cyberwarfare and open military action. And that grey zone creates a terrible problem: how does NATO respond to a serious attack when attribution itself becomes part of the battlefield? Europe should be paying very close attention.

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  ＧＨＯＳＴ (@Adam9110) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Battlefield Fix game....

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  Mr Eliminator (@let_brick_it) reported 27 minutes ago

  @ApollosMission Cod - don’t listen to fans Battlefield tried but got boring (my opinion) Halo nostalgia Overwatch I’ve never played Apex, hacker problems, over powering certain legends to just nerf them 3 months later. Medal of honour was once great Quake not played Defiant had potential

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  osita (@osita9401) reported 27 minutes ago

  @zara_praise Sub-Zero is walking in and turning the whole board into a frozen battlefield. They’re in serious trouble.

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  NuFX (@xNuFX) reported 30 minutes ago

  @BattlefieldComm Fix class locked bug! I want to change my class mid game. Option gone. Xbox and PC.

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  Jain Sahb (@jainsahb24) reported 30 minutes ago

  Not really sure why this taklu having an issue with anything and everything? Rakshabandhan and Patriarchy? Isn’t it true women were not typical warrior and weren’t going to battlefield since ages. And their brothers were there to protect them! What’s rocket science about it?

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  Janusz Tydda (@JanuszTydda) reported 30 minutes ago

  @DavidSmuts A new dimension of cannon fodder. And at the same time, the problem of an aging population has been solved (at least on the direct battlefield). Apparently, this clip is generated by AI, but that doesn't mean it won't be possible soon.

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  CasualSurvivor (@CasualSurvivor) reported 31 minutes ago

  @Battlefield Why doesn't the game start? Restarted my PC, relogged, checked steam servers and bf servers...no idea but the game won't start. Launcher works till it says "starting game" then closes itself without any error

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  ShinzosGhost (@ShinzosGhost) reported 31 minutes ago

  @GrimBF6 My biggest problem with @Battlefield is your choices as a console player are either languish in PC sweat lobbies getting spawn killed or turn off Crossplay and every other match is filled with bots.

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  Jed Rush (@JedRush4) reported 37 minutes ago

  @oelma__ I wonder how many men would prefer to bring life into the world instead of taking it or having it taken from them on a battlefield? Take your baby making attitude and go fix me a sandwich.

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  Psycho Fella (@Psycho_Fella) reported 37 minutes ago

  THE TANK ERA IN UKRAINE IS OVER. JUST NOT THE WAY COUCH EXPERTS, ADVISORS, AND CONSULTANTS UNDERSTAND IT By Rimas Armaitis, Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU) veteran—Lithuanian, sapper, instructor The New York Times reports that about half of the tank battalion soldiers from Ukraine’s 33rd Mechanized Brigade have already retrained as drone operators. Some recruits are no longer being trained to operate tanks at all. Leopard 2A4s are still maintained, repaired, and used for training, but they are rarely sent on combat missions—mostly during bad weather when drone activity decreases. This does not mean that all tanks will be scrapped tomorrow. It means something much more unpleasant for tank enthusiasts: the tank has lost its status as the primary strike platform. The platform remains, but its role, frequency of use, and cost-to-risk ratio have fundamentally changed. A tank costing millions cannot operate freely on the battlefield because it is under constant surveillance by reconnaissance drones. Once detected, a tank doesn’t even need to be destroyed in a single strike. The first FPV drone might damage a track or optics, the second hits the engine, and the third attacks the crew or the evacuation vehicle. Later, the job is finished off by a heavy bomber drone, artillery, or aerial mining. Even if the tank remains repairable, the combat mission is already ruined, the crew’s lives are at risk, and another expensive machine must be sent to evacuate the vehicle. This is where the economics of war begin—something our couch generals for some reason stubbornly refuse to understand. The key issue isn't whether a tank can theoretically be protected. What matters is how much its protection, logistics, repairs, and trained crew cost compared to how little it costs the enemy to detect, disable, and finish it off. When a chain of drones costing a few hundred or a few thousand euros disables a platform worth millions, we are not facing an emotional debate of "tanks vs. drones," but a catastrophically unfavorable cost-to-result ratio. Of course, some advisor-consultant will now pop up and solemnly declare: "But a drone doesn't hold ground!" Thank you for the breakthrough. An artillery shell doesn't hold ground either. A landmine doesn't control an intersection, and a fighter jet doesn't sit in a trench. Different tools perform different functions. The logic of modern assault is as follows: reconnaissance drones spot positions and movement; FPVs and bomber drones destroy or suppress targets; ground-based robotic systems transport explosives, lay mines, scout, provoke the enemy into revealing firing points, and provide fire support. Only then do the infantry clear, capture, and consolidate the territory—performing what is called "zakrep" on the front lines. Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are already being deployed with machine-gun modules, grenade launchers, shaped charges, and fragmentation charges. They handle logistics, evacuation, engineering, and specific assault tasks. They haven't replaced all light armored vehicles yet, but they are already taking over functions where it is better to lose a machine than to lose a machine along with its driver, crew, and squad. Infantry aren't going anywhere. However, a pure infantry assault without aerial reconnaissance, electronic warfare, drones, combat engineering preparation, and fire support is nowadays more simply referred to as a "meat assault." The neat phrase "an infantryman will still have to clear the trench" does not justify the idiotically wasteful decision to send him into that trench first. The role of artillery is also evolving. It remains essential for mass firepower, suppression, area targets, and operating under conditions where drones are restricted. However, single targets have long been handled by FPVs, heavy bomber drones, and mid-strike drones. Deep-strike systems and cheaper cruise missile analogs operate further behind enemy lines. So, drones haven't "replaced everything." They have taken over a huge share of reconnaissance, spotter adjustment, precision destruction, mining, logistics, and even assault roles. As a result, tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, and aviation are used less frequently, more cautiously, and only when their impact justifies the cost and risk. Another argument from the couch experts: "Just turn on electronic warfare and the drones won't fly." Right, of course. Strange that the Ukrainians themselves haven't thought of pressing the magic "turn off drones" button over more than four years of war. Electronic warfare (EW) is essential, but it is not an invisible dome. We now have frequency hopping, relays, elements of autonomous control, machine vision systems, and fiber-optic-guided FPVs. Every line of defense triggers a countermeasure, and technological cycles at the front line sometimes change within weeks. While our consultant spends six months coordinating the final version of a PowerPoint presentation, his "latest" conclusion is already outdated twice over. We are not anti-tank. We are against using tanks according to the doctrine of yesterday's war. For a tank to make a proper comeback to the battlefield, it needs more than just a metal cage welded onto the roof. It requires a complete protection ecosystem: drone detection, electronic warfare, active and passive defense, interceptor drones, dedicated reconnaissance drones, reduced physical and electromagnetic visibility, and integration into a unified intelligence and fire-control network. The tank of the future will likely be unmanned or optionally manned. Because the issue isn't just armor thickness. The issue is sending human beings, along with the tank, into a zone under constant surveillance and targeted fire. This is what we have been talking about for years now. Except our conclusions weren't drawn from watching YouTube or dragging blue and red rectangles across a screen. They emerged from the trenches of the current war. We have seen how the kill zone is shifting, how drones evolved from an auxiliary tool into a primary means of destruction, and how outdated procedures began costing human lives. Yet in Lithuania, a strange qualification system still prevails: if you were at the front yourself, you are "too emotional." If you fought on Facebook for four years, you qualify as a military expert. If you saw the doctrine fail, you are a radical. If you rewrote it three times in PowerPoint, you are an advisor or consultant. So let me repeat this as simply as possible: Tanks haven't disappeared. What has disappeared is the ability to use them the way it was planned ten or twenty years ago. Aerial and ground robotic systems have already taken over a portion of the roles previously held by light armor, artillery, aviation, and infantry. Anyone who fails to grasp this isn't "defending classic warfare"—they are simply preparing for yesterday's war using tomorrow's budget. And if, after all these arguments, someone still only hears "veterans want to get rid of tanks," it's not an additional explanation they need. They lack the ability to read a text longer than the headline of a tank procurement contract.

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  Zero (@ShiroaZero) reported 41 minutes ago

  @Lawd_Arbiter The problem is that the 3.5 Did she feel too Chinese perhaps? I still don't understand the moments when they started singing And the bit about Yangyang singing in the middle of a battlefield seems more like a meme than anything else. I'll give it up to 3.7 in case it improves

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  MezzWard (@MezzWard) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Battlefield fix your POS game... every ******* week, every ******* update you manage to have your game files constantly getting messed up. When I search, "my PC keeps rebooting when launching Battlefield 6", and it comes up as a well known issue... yall are a joke of a company. Can'twait for @WARDOGS

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  WintermintP - Chess Arbiter and Guitarist VTUBER (@WintermintP) reported 47 minutes ago

  Several problems with this. 1. For some people the one hero/role is all they can play. Some of them can't play that said hero properly, sure, but moving them to Tank or Support only further demoralises the person. 2. Not all games allow people to contribute in a meaningful way without actually being that skilled at the game. I used to be terrible at shooters until this year where I finally managed to maintain a 2.0 avg K/D in most games (Battlefield 6; I play the LMG class and use the KTS100 LMG). 3. A large number of these games have huge spawn-related problems where you're just bound to keep ending up spawnkilled come what may. That's bad game design, nothing to do with one's skills or ability to follow instructions. 4. You can't force a DPS to play Tank/Support and you can't force a Tank/Support to play DPS.

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  Artzie (@YTArtzie) reported 49 minutes ago

  @BattlefieldComm fix the blackscreen man omg

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  Wayne Nilsen (@waynenilsen) reported 51 minutes ago

  @Arthur_NC_ If you could get reliable information about the target, could you go ballistic to overcome some of these line of sight issues? Is battlefield sensor fusion a thing ? Are there good information provided by satellite via radar?

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  Mr.Samuels (@Mister_Samuels) reported 54 minutes ago

  @BattlefieldComm Just please REDUCE the bloom back to what is was in the BF6 Beta and increase ttk. That’s literally all yall need to do. This heavy bloom effect is the biggest issue with BF6, especially since it wasn’t like this in yall own beta!!

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  Psycho Fella (@Psycho_Fella) reported 56 minutes ago

  THE TANK ERA IN UKRAINE IS OVER. JUST NOT THE WAY COUCH EXPERTS, ADVISORS, AND CONSULTANTS UNDERSTAND IT By Rimas Armaitis, Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU) veteran—Lithuanian, sapper, instructor. The New York Times reports that about half of the tank battalion soldiers from Ukraine’s 33rd Mechanized Brigade have already retrained as drone operators. Some recruits are no longer being trained to operate tanks at all. Leopard 2A4s are still maintained, repaired, and used for training, but they are rarely sent on combat missions—mostly during bad weather when drone activity decreases. This does not mean that all tanks will be scrapped tomorrow. It means something much more unpleasant for tank enthusiasts: the tank has lost its status as the primary strike platform. The platform remains, but its role, frequency of use, and cost-to-risk ratio have fundamentally changed. A tank costing millions cannot operate freely on the battlefield because it is under constant surveillance by reconnaissance drones. Once detected, a tank doesn’t even need to be destroyed in a single strike. The first FPV drone might damage a track or optics, the second hits the engine, and the third attacks the crew or the evacuation vehicle. Later, the job is finished off by a heavy bomber drone, artillery, or aerial mining. Even if the tank remains repairable, the combat mission is already ruined, the crew’s lives are at risk, and another expensive machine must be sent to evacuate the vehicle. This is where the economics of war begin—something our couch generals for some reason stubbornly refuse to understand. The key issue isn't whether a tank can theoretically be protected. What matters is how much its protection, logistics, repairs, and trained crew cost compared to how little it costs the enemy to detect, disable, and finish it off. When a chain of drones costing a few hundred or a few thousand euros disables a platform worth millions, we are not facing an emotional debate of "tanks vs. drones," but a catastrophically unfavorable cost-to-result ratio. Of course, some advisor-consultant will now pop up and solemnly declare: "But a drone doesn't hold ground!" Thank you for the breakthrough. An artillery shell doesn't hold ground either. A landmine doesn't control an intersection, and a fighter jet doesn't sit in a trench. Different tools perform different functions. The logic of modern assault is as follows: reconnaissance drones spot positions and movement; FPVs and bomber drones destroy or suppress targets; ground-based robotic systems transport explosives, lay mines, scout, provoke the enemy into revealing firing points, and provide fire support. Only then do the infantry clear, capture, and consolidate the territory—performing what is called "zakrep" on the front lines. Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are already being deployed with machine-gun modules, grenade launchers, shaped charges, and fragmentation charges. They handle logistics, evacuation, engineering, and specific assault tasks. They haven't replaced all light armored vehicles yet, but they are already taking over functions where it is better to lose a machine than to lose a machine along with its driver, crew, and squad. Infantry aren't going anywhere. However, a pure infantry assault without aerial reconnaissance, electronic warfare, drones, combat engineering preparation, and fire support is nowadays more simply referred to as a "meat assault." The neat phrase "an infantryman will still have to clear the trench" does not justify the idiotically wasteful decision to send him into that trench first. The role of artillery is also evolving. It remains essential for mass firepower, suppression, area targets, and operating under conditions where drones are restricted. However, single targets have long been handled by FPVs, heavy bomber drones, and mid-strike drones. Deep-strike systems and cheaper cruise missile analogs operate further behind enemy lines. So, drones haven't "replaced everything." They have taken over a huge share of reconnaissance, spotter adjustment, precision destruction, mining, logistics, and even assault roles. As a result, tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, and aviation are used less frequently, more cautiously, and only when their impact justifies the cost and risk. Another argument from the couch experts: "Just turn on electronic warfare and the drones won't fly." Right, of course. Strange that the Ukrainians themselves haven't thought of pressing the magic "turn off drones" button over more than four years of war. Electronic warfare (EW) is essential, but it is not an invisible dome. We now have frequency hopping, relays, elements of autonomous control, machine vision systems, and fiber-optic-guided FPVs. Every line of defense triggers a countermeasure, and technological cycles at the front line sometimes change within weeks. While our consultant spends six months coordinating the final version of a PowerPoint presentation, his "latest" conclusion is already outdated twice over. We are not anti-tank. We are against using tanks according to the doctrine of yesterday's war. For a tank to make a proper comeback to the battlefield, it needs more than just a metal cage welded onto the roof. It requires a complete protection ecosystem: drone detection, electronic warfare, active and passive defense, interceptor drones, dedicated reconnaissance drones, reduced physical and electromagnetic visibility, and integration into a unified intelligence and fire-control network. The tank of the future will likely be unmanned or optionally manned. Because the issue isn't just armor thickness. The issue is sending human beings, along with the tank, into a zone under constant surveillance and targeted fire. This is what we have been talking about for years now. Except our conclusions weren't drawn from watching YouTube or dragging blue and red rectangles across a screen. They emerged from the trenches of the current war. We have seen how the kill zone is shifting, how drones evolved from an auxiliary tool into a primary means of destruction, and how outdated procedures began costing human lives. Yet in Lithuania, a strange qualification system still prevails: if you were at the front yourself, you are "too emotional." If you fought on Facebook for four years, you qualify as a military expert. If you saw the doctrine fail, you are a radical. If you rewrote it three times in PowerPoint, you are an advisor or consultant. So let me repeat this as simply as possible: Tanks haven't disappeared. What has disappeared is the ability to use them the way it was planned ten or twenty years ago. Aerial and ground robotic systems have already taken over a portion of the roles previously held by light armor, artillery, aviation, and infantry. Anyone who fails to grasp this isn't "defending classic warfare"—they are simply preparing for yesterday's war using tomorrow's budget. And if, after all these arguments, someone still only hears "veterans want to get rid of tanks," it's not an additional explanation they need. They lack the ability to read a text longer than the headline of a tank procurement contract.

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  Abyzon (@Abyzonn) reported 59 minutes ago

  In 1984 a Japanese man moved to the US with $40 in his pocket in 1949 and built an empire worth over $50 million. His institute trained thousands across 40 countries. His books sold 3 million copies. Heads of state paid to fly him in privately for one conversation. He was not a doctor. He was not a scientist. His name was Michio Kushi. And in 1984 he stood in front of a room and said everything modern medicine believes about disease is wrong. He opened with one sentence that cost him every mainstream audience he ever had. There is no enemy outside of you. There never was. He said modern medicine had built its entire structure on a war metaphor. Virus is the enemy. Bacteria is the enemy. DNA is the enemy. So we invented weapons — vaccinations, chemotherapy, radiation, drugs — and turned the human body into a battlefield. Billions of dollars. Thirty five years of research. Degenerative disease kept rising. Something greatly wrong, he said. The image of the enemy is the problem. He gave a simple example. Eat well for six months. Go to a summer picnic with people who eat normally. Watch where the mosquitoes land. They will circle you and move to the person drinking orange juice and eating ice cream. Not because they are polite. Because they know your blood is too thick and tight. Their feeding tube gets stuck. They have learned, while flying, that this one is dangerous. He said sickness works the same way. The bacteria did not attack you. You made yourself an attractive environment for bacteria. Then he said something nobody in the room expected. Nations do not exist. Birds cross borders without passports. From a plane you see mountains, forests, rivers. No lines anywhere. The lines are here — pointing to his head. We drew them, believed them, and then started fighting and dying to defend something that only exists as an image. Same with ownership. The house you think you own, you will leave behind. The money you think you have was made by a government from material taken from mountains that nature built. No one owns anything. Everyone is just using. Same with your job. He asked the room: you came from the infinite universe. Billions of years of transformation. Through plant kingdoms, through animal kingdoms, through thousands of different forms. You chose this planet, these parents, this body. And the result of that entire journey is — you sell your time for $200 a week and retire to Florida at 65? He said 90 to 99 percent of modern people are governed by delusions about what life is for. The cure was not a drug. It was grain. Brown rice, wheat, barley, corn. Plants that grow upward toward the sky. He said the food determines the quality of thought. Eat meat, you see enemies everywhere. Eat dairy and sugar, you sink into depression. Eat grain for six months and the delusions begin to dissolve on their own. He said when a person truly wakes up from the delusion, gratitude comes automatically. And when gratitude comes, the desire to help other people comes automatically. No teaching required. The lecture is free on YouTube. Just over an hour. Recorded in 1984. Almost nobody outside of macrobiotic and philosophy circles has watched it as a complete argument for why the modern world is suffering from something no hospital can treat.