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Post by goduranus on Jan 13, 2017 5:53:54 GMT
If you jam the GPS or even take it out in a high intensity warfare situation, I think these machines would be easily disabled. Maybe even jamming on the ground would greatly reduce their effectiveness.
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Post by argonbalt on Jan 13, 2017 8:43:31 GMT
they are also pretty damn fragile, seeing as they are mainly mini AIWACS that is not really a problem, but even light machine gun fire would be able to swat them.
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Post by dragonkid11 on Jan 13, 2017 16:16:21 GMT
The problem would be actually hitting them in the first place.
Seeing as they are so tiny and soldiers in combat actually has really bad aim most of the time.
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Post by Easy on Jan 13, 2017 16:19:35 GMT
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Post by Easy on Jan 13, 2017 16:21:52 GMT
Pretty cool, but what could you possibly arm something so small with? Shaped charges. The drone only fires once, killing itself, like a bee. After all, you've got hundreds of them.
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Post by argonbalt on Jan 13, 2017 18:27:54 GMT
The problem would be actually hitting them in the first place. Seeing as they are so tiny and soldiers in combat actually has really bad aim most of the time. what do you mean soldiers have really bad aim? They usually have perfectly fine aiming. Also ideally your be looking at three anti drone weapons: 1: Infiltrator drone, a small person launched platform with some kind of malware, acting like those parasitic spiders that camouflage themselves as ants. Hopefully issuing a detonation or shutdown order to the rest of the pack. At the very least they would need to sacrifice a few of their own drones to target and blow up the anti-drone. Could also act like transponder for ground based EWACS 2: Depending on the altitude, air burst grenade launchers or mortars from ground troops. Basically the idea is to create a mini flak screen against the micro drones, or at the very least hit em enough to detonate charges. 3: If you have the cash: media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/3/2587/Boxer_SysFla.jpg once again equipped with high fragmentation low size flak air burst. Considering you need these to shoot down air craft anyways an anti drone mode seems only appropriate. Perhaps hooked up to it's own mini CIWS drone screen to prevent any lucky stragglers.
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Post by bigbombr on Jan 13, 2017 21:50:13 GMT
The problem would be actually hitting them in the first place. Seeing as they are so tiny and soldiers in combat actually has really bad aim most of the time. what do you mean soldiers have really bad aim? They usually have perfectly fine aiming. Also ideally your be looking at three anti drone weapons: 1: Infiltrator drone, a small person launched platform with some kind of malware, acting like those parasitic spiders that camouflage themselves as ants. Hopefully issuing a detonation or shutdown order to the rest of the pack. At the very least they would need to sacrifice a few of their own drones to target and blow up the anti-drone. Could also act like transponder for ground based EWACS 2: Depending on the altitude, air burst grenade launchers or mortars from ground troops. Basically the idea is to create a mini flak screen against the micro drones, or at the very least hit em enough to detonate charges. 3: If you have the cash: media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/3/2587/Boxer_SysFla.jpg once again equipped with high fragmentation low size flak air burst. Considering you need these to shoot down air craft anyways an anti drone mode seems only appropriate. Perhaps hooked up to it's own mini CIWS drone screen to prevent any lucky stragglers. Don't forget lasers in the 10-80 kW range. They're being deployed as we speak specifically to counter micro-drones and IED's in a cost-effective fashion (airburst ammunition fired at sufficient densities for reliable protection gets expensive).
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Post by RiftandRend on Jan 14, 2017 0:31:49 GMT
Pretty cool, but what could you possibly arm something so small with? Shaped charges. The drone only fires once, killing itself, like a bee. After all, you've got hundreds of them. But how is that superior to a guided bomb or and RPG?
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Post by Easy on Jan 14, 2017 1:43:45 GMT
Shaped charges. The drone only fires once, killing itself, like a bee. After all, you've got hundreds of them. But how is that superior to a guided bomb or and RPG? They are not at all similar. A RPG is short ranged, unguided and has to be fired by a friendly person. Friendly people are usually politically important and have expensive life insurance policies. A guided bomb falls from an aircraft into either a GPS waypoint, image matching, IR target or laser spot. The bomb takes about a minute to fall. The bomb cannot decide to hover and fly off to a different target or provide recon for minutes or more. Neither can the bomb choose to send individuals of its swarm to engage separate targets. With a bomb you drop it, and a minute later you get a boom and that's it. Think about the spider bots in Minority Report that can recon an entire building and identify the occupants in a few minutes with zero risk to the human officers.
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Post by argonbalt on Jan 14, 2017 3:16:20 GMT
Man if you guys haven't seen it already you should really check out the anime short film compilation "Short Peace" specifically "A Farewell to Arms/Weapons". It's about a post exodus power armour division that disposes of weapons. They end up going against a still functioning WWIII ai Laser tank, they use a ton of drones and special equipment some of which is the single use/RPG drones people have brought up here.
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Post by teeth on Jan 14, 2017 3:30:39 GMT
Man if you guys haven't seen it already you should really check out the anime short film compilation "Short Peace" specifically "A Farewell to Arms/Weapons". It's about a post exodus power armour division that disposes of weapons. They end up going against a still functioning WWIII ai Laser tank, they use a ton of drones and special equipment some of which is the single use/RPG drones people have brought up here. I sure hope that's an official video, because anime and AC/DC gets a hell yes from me. Where can I find it?
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Post by argonbalt on Jan 14, 2017 3:35:21 GMT
No that's a fan AMV, but it start's off with some Jap AC/DC knock off music so it fits really well, if you want to watch it free: kissanime.ru/Anime/Short-Peace/Movie?id=78765 It's towards the end, it's the last short in the collection. It's based on an Otomo short manga, the guy who did Akira, and it's directed by Hajime Katoki, the guy whose designed allot of modern Gundam mobile suits. Outside of the lasers firing PEW PEW bolts it's pretty realistic to what future warfare might be.
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Post by theholyinquisition on Jan 14, 2017 4:19:20 GMT
No that's a fan AMV, but it start's off with some Jap AC/DC knock off music so it fits really well, if you want to watch it free: kissanime.ru/Anime/Short-Peace/Movie?id=78765 It's towards the end, it's the last short in the collection. It's based on an Otomo short manga, the guy who did Akira, and it's directed by Hajime Katoki, the guy whose designed allot of modern Gundam mobile suits. Outside of the lasers firing PEW PEW bolts it's pretty realistic to what future warfare might be. Mobile suits and realism should not be mentioned in the same text.
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Post by David367th on Jan 14, 2017 4:33:16 GMT
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Post by someusername6 on Jan 14, 2017 4:40:46 GMT
Also non-military applications: My non-expert understanding is that the limiting factor is power density -- but for limited uses (e.g. using it to move large crates around) you can always just plug it into an external power source.
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