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Small plane that quickly strafes drones with silly string-like incapacitating weapon? Wouldn't need to sustain aim, just pass near by.
by germinalphrase 10y ago
Small plane that quickly strafes drones with silly string-like incapacitating weapon? Wouldn't need to sustain aim, just pass near by.
- anigbrowl 10y agoThat's a bit like using a tank to hunt rats - it would work in theory, but the rats are a lot more agile than the tank. What are you gonna do, blanket whole neighborhoods in silly string? How are you gonna tell the difference between birds and droves while also flying the plane and avoiding ground fire from people who don't like you? Any anti-drone countermeasures are likely to involves more drones.
- germinalphrase 10y agoI was actually thinking more along he lines of an RC plane. Something launchable by a soldier but that would be quicker linearly than a drone.
- anigbrowl 10y agoOh I see - I had misunderstood you to mean something like a crop duster. I'm sure we'll see a rapid evolution/arms race involving everything from machine learning to rapid prototyping to autonomous swarming behaviors, and more.