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Why use drones in this missle defense system your describing? Drones are incredibly slow and missiles are INCREDIBLY fast. If you have the trajectory of the mis
by afrodc_ 6y ago
Why use drones in this missle defense system your describing? Drones are incredibly slow and missiles are INCREDIBLY fast. If you have the trajectory of the missile enough to put some sort of drone or hard object on it, why not just shoot it. That's what the phalanx missile defense system does.
- javajosh 6y agoWell this is an interesting question, and there's a good answer: because if you make the drone dome dense enough, the drones can be so slow they don't move. So, the less dense you make it, the more they have to move, so there is a nice optimization problem with the lower bound of density given by the speed of the drone, and the upper bound based on cost and complexity. It also matters how big the dome is - you want a big one, but if its too big density goes down again.
- fock 6y agoso let's build armored hulls above our ships. oh, wait...