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New Marine Corps weapon that just destroyed an Iranian drone revealed
- vectorEQ 7y agobut its totaly ok to fly drones over enemy territory if we are doing it.
- at-fates-hands 7y agoThis is why having control of the airspace in a given theater is so valuable.
- rolph 7y agoand its totally ok to fly drones over domestic private property with or without surveillance equipment, and any countermeasure is considered to be an attack or interference with an FAA sanctioned aircraft, although i think that line is blurred a bit now. looking at the rig in the article i see what looks like a microwave array, with a lack of shielding for the biologicals mounted in the seats. no matter how directed the RF energy there are side lobes and a back lobe, a simple porch window screen[metallic] and an earth ground will keep the operators safe. I have a feeling the photo in the article is a showtotype,and there are tweeks to the final production that address issues and are not "top secret" but are just not expostulated for the layperson.
- panarky 7y agoI don't think "expostulated" means what you think it means.
- rolph 7y agoperhaps auto-expostulated might help you. a congruence with self criticism as in ?this is a good countermeasure system, it has some things to work out but that doesnt stop us from displaying an approximate prototype? www.dictionary.com/browse/expostulate Expostulate definition, to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate: His father expostulated with him about the evils of gambling. in other words constructive criticism that falls on deaf ears, and that sums up my experience with hubric institutions
- tlb 7y agoKind of a stretch. "Explained" or "expounded" would fit better.
- derp_dee_derp 7y agoLife is not fair, war is not fair, international politics is not fair. Yes, it's hypocritical for the US to do it. But you know what, the only way to get them to stop is force them to stop with military force. And, quite honestly, there is no military in the world that even comes close to the US. Also I'd rather the US control the airspace and flying drones wherever they want than some other country controlling the airspace and flying drones over the US.
- sfkdjf9j3j 7y agoOf course there's a way to stop it. The U.S. military answers to the civilian population, and we elect our leaders. It's ridiculous to accept our current state of undeclared forever-war and disastrous international policy as "well life's just not fair".
- kyruzic 7y agoA lot of Americans don't even just think that life isn't fair, they have the mentality that America is the divinely placed police force of the world. And as such they are entitled to projections of force through acts of war whenever necessary.
- cabaalis 7y agoAlso, a lot of Americans are on the opposite side of the spectrum and do not want to police the world. I think the common uniting factor is that the conflicts are "over there." Out of sight, out of mind.
- some_random 7y agoHow dare they try to make the world a better place, they ought to be ashamed.
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- calyth2018 7y agoOr planes that fly at Mach 3.
- sdinsn 7y agoThe US does not fly drones within 1000 yards of a foreign vessel.
- bkohlmann 7y agoIt used to be an act of war to shoot down another country's aircraft - and now we've seen it happen twice on each side of Iranian / US tensions in recent weeks. One of the early questions about UAVs was what impact they would have on the implications of force. I think we've got an answer: drones are fair game since they don't have anybody in them. Still higher stakes than doing nothing, but less so than shooting down a manned platform. For instance, when I was on deployment near the Gulf on a carrier, we would regularly have an Iranian P-3 fly very close to us even after repeated warnings. Same thing with Russian Bears. We'd usually sent up an F/A-18 or two to "escort" the visitor and would never think of shooting them down unless fired upon. Yet, if a drone gets within 1000 yards, down it goes. No judgment - interesting to see the rules of war evolve in real time with new tech!
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> One of the early questions about UAVs was what impact they would have on the implications of force. I think we've got an answer: drones are fair game since they don't have anybody in them. I see no real problems with this. > we would regularly have an Iranian P-3 fly very close to us even after repeated warnings. Same thing with Russian Bears. We'd usually sent up an F/A-18 or two to "escort" the visitor and would never think of shooting them down unless fired upon. Yet, if a drone gets within 1000 yards, down it goes. This raises the interesting question of whether armies will start sending manned planes out specifically because those are much harder to shoot down. In the post-drone world, that's more provocative than it was before.
- ajross 7y ago> I see no real problems with this. Not until someone in a Cessna dies because "we thought it was a drone!", you mean. Any weapon looks great when it's used within it's design regime. The point is more that a world where you can shoot down drones with abandon is one in which an act of war is just one mild fuckup removed from "peace".
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- stcredzero 7y agoThe vehicle looks like the ancestor of something out of Halo!
- nickserv 7y agoIt's quite possible the designers were avid Halo players in their formative years.
- jonwachob91 7y agoI was thinking it looks like a slightly modified John Deere Gator Utility Vehicle [0] that had an RF system placed on top of it... [0] https://www.deere.com/en/gator-utility-vehicles/full-size-crossover-gators/ https://www.deere.com/en/gator-utility-vehicles/full-size-cr...
- wafflesraccoon 7y agoThis website is a nightmare, there is almost no information and the page is almost entirely ads
- guelo 7y agoAssuming the weapon is radio jamming I wonder how it knows which frequencies to attack. Seems like any decent military would be able to come up with easy countermeasures for jamming.
- cjslep 7y agoHave you taken a dive into radio ECM and ECCM? I highly recommend it, it is fascinating, and is highly complex. Modern ECM is much more involved than "shoot high amplitude noise on all frequencies from a particular direction" and even the declassified stuff is clever. It's a cat and mouse game much like internet exploits. Makes questions like the ones you pose seem only surface-deep.
- Allower 7y ago"Jam the drone" what kind of garbage reporting is this.
- dmix 7y agoI was hoping they hacked a drone, flew it towards their ship for plausible deniability, and shot it down as some sort of quid-pro-quo. Although Iran is probably flying enough of them aggressively towards American ships where they can just take their pick.
- slenk 7y agoAccording to Iran all their drones are fine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iran-denies-that-the-us-destroyed-one-of-its-drones/2019/07/19/e384595e-a996-11e9-8733-48c87235f396_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iran-denies...