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I can't say I'm surprised I'm only shocked they didn't really prepare for the eventuality. A small vehicle that can travel in 3 dimensions can easily carry expl

I can't say I'm surprised I'm only shocked they didn't really prepare for the eventuality. A small vehicle that can travel in 3 dimensions can easily carry explosives and other weaponery. It's only a matter of time before this is common place and with the ability to throw a drone out of your backpack and send it flying it's going to get worse. I always remember FPSRussia's drone [1] and I'm surprised they haven't made these in mass over there. [1] https://youtu.be/SNPJMk2fgJU https://youtu.be/SNPJMk2fgJU

TaylorAlexander 10y ago
FYI, FPSRussia is produced by Americans in America. The Russian thing is a gag. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPSRussia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPSRussia
- BinaryIdiot 10y ago
  Yup! He's so over the top I had a feeling he wasn't really Russian. Still entertained on the off chance I pass by a video of his. Watching a video of him without the accent is so weird.
mintplant 10y ago
Reminds me of the V-1 "flying bomb" used by the Nazis in World War II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb
zengid 10y ago
>>>I always remember FPSRussia's drone [1] and I'm surprised they haven't made these in mass over there. Looks like it's CGI.
mentos 10y ago
Reminds me of the movie 'The Jackal' I really hope we don't over correct out of fear because drones will be a net positive for society.
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hackuser 10y ago
> they didn't really prepare for the eventuality I didn't RTFM, but drone defense has been a high priority for the Pentagon and they've been rapidly testing and developing various options. A big challenge is doing it cost-effectively, AFAIK. Legacy anti-air technology is designed for shooting down airplanes and uses missiles that may cost 100-1000x the drone; it's not affordable to build missiles to shoot down all of an enemy's drones. I've seen reports of sniper rifles, lasers (less than $1 marginal cost per shot, reportedly), electromagnetic weapons that fry the drone's electronics, old-fashioned anti-aircraft guns, etc. Not only can drones carry explosives, but apparently the Russians very effectively use drones as artillery spotters in Ukraine, and it's not just a battlefield problem: What happens when someone targets a drone at major public events or at VIPs such as the U.S. President? How do you stop it?
- oxide 10y ago
  >How do you stop it? why not an anti-drone drone? would it be cost effective to fit a weapon capable of downing a drone onto a drone?
  - dorfsmay 10y ago
    Or eagles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_ovddVRKE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_ovddVRKE
  - hackuser 10y ago
    > why not an anti-drone drone? would it be cost effective to fit a weapon capable of downing a drone onto a drone? A guess: It would cost the defender the same as the attacker. That's a big improvement over anti-air missiles, but you want the equation heavily in your favor. If you can do it with sniper rifles, for example, your enemy will almost certainly run out of drones before you run out of bullets.
  - branchless 10y ago
    Gotcha: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/watch-japans-bizarre-net-wielding-police-drone-in-action/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/watch-japans-bizarre-...
msane 10y ago
I can't say I'm surprised I'm only shocked they didn't really prepare for the eventuality. One of the countermeasures we can expect is "persistent aerial surveillance" (airship based eye-in-the-sky platforms), which are semi-secret platforms being used in battlefields by the US currently. I wonder how rapidly one of these systems can detect an unknown drone in the air. Amazed you believed the FPSRussia video.
- vinchuco 10y ago
  Now I'm curious of the physics involved, how do you keep a drone from spinning out of balance after shooting?
  - msane 10y ago
    no idea, but balanced charges I imagine
  - dogma1138 10y ago
    It's CGI it's part of the promotion for one of the COD games.
    - vinchuco 10y ago
      So...?
- BinaryIdiot 10y ago
  > Amazed you believed the FPSRussia video Not sure what you mean. I believed what about it, exactly?
  - msane 10y ago
    did you think it was real?
    - BinaryIdiot 10y ago
      No but I don't see any reason why it isn't feasible to some degree. Wasn't it some CoD promotion? I just wanted to use it as an example of what I was talking about. It's a cool example :)
dogma1138 10y ago
That is CGI part of the Call of Duty Black Ops 2 promotion http://www.themarysue.com/fake-cod-quadrotor/ http://www.themarysue.com/fake-cod-quadrotor/

TaylorAlexander 10y ago

FYI, FPSRussia is produced by Americans in America. The Russian thing is a gag. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPSRussia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPSRussia

BinaryIdiot 10y ago
Yup! He's so over the top I had a feeling he wasn't really Russian. Still entertained on the off chance I pass by a video of his. Watching a video of him without the accent is so weird.

mintplant 10y ago

Reminds me of the V-1 "flying bomb" used by the Nazis in World War II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb

zengid 10y ago

>>>I always remember FPSRussia's drone [1] and I'm surprised they haven't made these in mass over there. Looks like it's CGI.

mentos 10y ago

Reminds me of the movie 'The Jackal' I really hope we don't over correct out of fear because drones will be a net positive for society.

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hackuser 10y ago

> they didn't really prepare for the eventuality I didn't RTFM, but drone defense has been a high priority for the Pentagon and they've been rapidly testing and developing various options. A big challenge is doing it cost-effectively, AFAIK. Legacy anti-air technology is designed for shooting down airplanes and uses missiles that may cost 100-1000x the drone; it's not affordable to build missiles to shoot down all of an enemy's drones. I've seen reports of sniper rifles, lasers (less than $1 marginal cost per shot, reportedly), electromagnetic weapons that fry the drone's electronics, old-fashioned anti-aircraft guns, etc. Not only can drones carry explosives, but apparently the Russians very effectively use drones as artillery spotters in Ukraine, and it's not just a battlefield problem: What happens when someone targets a drone at major public events or at VIPs such as the U.S. President? How do you stop it?

oxide 10y ago
>How do you stop it? why not an anti-drone drone? would it be cost effective to fit a weapon capable of downing a drone onto a drone?
- dorfsmay 10y ago
  Or eagles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_ovddVRKE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_ovddVRKE
- hackuser 10y ago
  > why not an anti-drone drone? would it be cost effective to fit a weapon capable of downing a drone onto a drone? A guess: It would cost the defender the same as the attacker. That's a big improvement over anti-air missiles, but you want the equation heavily in your favor. If you can do it with sniper rifles, for example, your enemy will almost certainly run out of drones before you run out of bullets.
- branchless 10y ago
  Gotcha: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/watch-japans-bizarre-net-wielding-police-drone-in-action/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/watch-japans-bizarre-...

msane 10y ago

I can't say I'm surprised I'm only shocked they didn't really prepare for the eventuality. One of the countermeasures we can expect is "persistent aerial surveillance" (airship based eye-in-the-sky platforms), which are semi-secret platforms being used in battlefields by the US currently. I wonder how rapidly one of these systems can detect an unknown drone in the air. Amazed you believed the FPSRussia video.

vinchuco 10y ago
Now I'm curious of the physics involved, how do you keep a drone from spinning out of balance after shooting?
- msane 10y ago
  no idea, but balanced charges I imagine
- dogma1138 10y ago
  It's CGI it's part of the promotion for one of the COD games.
  - vinchuco 10y ago
    So...?
BinaryIdiot 10y ago
> Amazed you believed the FPSRussia video Not sure what you mean. I believed what about it, exactly?
- msane 10y ago
  did you think it was real?
  - BinaryIdiot 10y ago
    No but I don't see any reason why it isn't feasible to some degree. Wasn't it some CoD promotion? I just wanted to use it as an example of what I was talking about. It's a cool example :)

dogma1138 10y ago

That is CGI part of the Call of Duty Black Ops 2 promotion http://www.themarysue.com/fake-cod-quadrotor/ http://www.themarysue.com/fake-cod-quadrotor/