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Issue the people with nets, balloons, and shotguns. Declare a national drone hunting holiday.
by millipedegears 6y ago
Issue the people with nets, balloons, and shotguns.
Declare a national drone hunting holiday.
- mstipetic 6y agoWhat if the drones have explosives? They could take out 100k people before we know what's happening
- Rastonbury 6y agoWhy go through the trouble of using drone, just use a barrage conventional missiles, hypothetical country is unlikely to have anti-rocket system like iron dome
- mstipetic 6y agoI'd assume systems like that require something like an army are regulated and in control of nation states. My point was something like a few hundred thousand drones could probably stealthily be acquired by a wealthy individual. If it's autonomous and remotely controlled you might not even know who's behind it
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoOK, but in this scenario, the wealthy individual is trying to do what? Take over the country? Fine. Let him. When he does so, he quits being anonymous. Then assassinate him and restore the previous government. Bonus style points if you assassinate him with a drone.
- yellowapple 6y ago> When he does so, he quits being anonymous. Does he? Nothing stopping him from staying anonymous.
- blaser-waffle 6y agoMissiles are just simple suicide drones, really
- boc 6y agoIF that's the goal, a Neutron Bomb[1] would be far more efficient. From Wikipedia: "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory director Harold Brown and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev both described neutron bombs as a "capitalist bomb", because it was designed to destroy people while preserving property." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb
- niceairport 6y agoThe vast majority of global civilian population doesn't have access to firearms.
- millipedegears 6y agoTrue, but you can't fight a massively distributed attack using a very small concentrated force of professional soldiers; hence the population needs to be issued with weapons and training in an emergency for civil defense. Conventional weapons like tanks and fixed emplacements just become easy targets.
- yellowapple 6y agoWell then maybe that, too, is a problem that needs solved? Regardless, a slamfire shotgun only requires two pipes and a nail. Ammo is still an issue, but it's a start.
- King-Aaron 6y agoDrone-whacking day?