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Given that you put "General" in quotes, I'm not sure which part you think is bullshit. If it's the part about him saying it, here's the youtube video[0] of a 4
by dtparr 10y ago
Given that you put "General" in quotes, I'm not sure which part you think is bullshit.
If it's the part about him saying it, here's the youtube video[0] of a 4-star general in the US Army (Gen. David Perkins) making that claim.
And he's not advocating for lasers (it's unrelated to this article), he's advocating for alternative options, and mentions cyber and something like "sema?".
As far as could the patriot hit it, I would think the hard part would be tracking it. No idea what the RCS looks like on a quadcopter vs., say, a stealthy cruise missile.
As far as threats for use in asymmetric warfare, we've seen cheap drones that are used for recon, and we've seen them used to drop ordnance.
0 - https://youtu.be/6v7nfB5bV3E?t=14m54s https://youtu.be/6v7nfB5bV3E?t=14m54s
Edit: here's a link to a picture of an ISIS-modified drone used to drop grenades: https://twitter.com/AlexMello02/status/819259288950624256/photo/1 https://twitter.com/AlexMello02/status/819259288950624256/ph...
- underbluewaters 10y agoHuh, thanks for the link to the talk. That wasn't in the original article so I could hardly believe they got that correct. Still, I don't see how that's justifiable even if they can drop grenades. They won't be able to do it very effectively, and in fact if it's close enough to drop a grenade on troops you probably don't want to be detonating a Patriot missile in the same area.
- dtparr 10y agoActually, I think his whole point was that it wasn't really justifiable, but it wasn't the US Army that did it (I am curious who it was). Totally agree about the proximity thing.