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Suicide drones are here. Will someone finally listen and try to make a defense?
I've said this time and time again: Someone is going to make suicide drones and attack people with them.
I couldn't find anyone willing to put time or money into a method to defend ourselves against them.
Will someone freaking listen to me now? damnation.
https://www.defenseworld.net/news/24744/China_Unveils_New_Armoured_Vehicle_Capable_Of_Launching_12_Suicide_Drones#.XPYGuy17FE4
- Gibbon1 7y agoPeople seem blissfully unaware how bad news autonomous vehicles are.
- anigbrowl 7y agoI thought it would come from private or guerrilla orgs first. Swarming interference seems like the obvious countermeasure but this seems like something that would iterate rapidly on the battlefield.
- twervle 7y agoYou're late.... There have already been drone attacks on politicians. I doubt you're the first to think of this. Many people around the world have been working on defense against drones. Just search on Google.
- A2017U1 7y ago> Will someone finally listen I count dozens of startups and virtually every big military contractor doing exactly this for nearly 2 decades now. Your main complaint here seems to be no one giving you money to try what many have failed at?
- GaelFG 7y agoAre you afraid of them at a personnal civilian level ? I'm maybe naive but I don't find them more dangerous than a lot of more low tech weapons.
- perilunar 7y agoIt's already happened, and people are already well aware of it: "Venezuela President Maduro survives 'drone assassination attempt'", 5 August 2018 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45073385 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45073385
- imtringued 7y agoAmericans have killed thousands of unarmed civilians with their drones so far. I don't see how a truck equipped with guided missles is more dangerous. Especially armed americans have a better chance to kill the driver than a drone pilot who is sitting thousands of miles away from you.
- shoo 7y agoprovided you are not concerned about protecting specific people, an effective countermeasure is to have a large number `n` of people distributed in space, where `n` is much larger than `d`, where `d` is the number of suicide drones. similar measures can be used to defend against people driving trucks into crowds, or so on.
- wurst_case 7y agoThis is true only if you're talking conventional warfare. What I'm scared of are lone terrorists who want to use drones.
- cannedslime 7y agoSo what will your recommended course of action be? Ban RC toys? Backdoor everything?
- brokenmachine 7y agoThe future is scary.