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I think they even proved themselves in the recent Gaza campaign.
by FridayoLeary 5y ago
I think they even proved themselves in the recent Gaza campaign.
- trhway 5y agoI don't think there were any real military drones. While an RC model/quad with a grenade does qualify as a weapon, the purposely built military drones have orders of magnitude better communication over longer range, incl. remote high precision targeting, loitering times, and carry a high precision stand-off missiles (that is an important point because the defense has to shoot the small fast incoming missile while the drone itself carries several missiles and loiters outside of the CIWS/SHORAD range waiting for the window of opportunity, and thus shooting the drone itself requires much more expensive/heavy air-defense system).
- petre 5y agoThey don't even claim it works on bigger military drones, but smaller drones or drone swarms. It uses a microwave beam to disable or a high energy laser to shoot down the drones. I think the bigger ones like Predator could be shot down by other drones armed with low payload missiles. Repurposed Iron Dome style defenses could also be used at shorter range.
- imtringued 5y agoThe iron dome defends against saturation attacks. You see the average HN poster come up with swarm buzzwords and then talk about how defense against saturation attacks is impossible meanwhile the iron dome intercepts 90%+ of hamas rockets even though they are sending thousands of them.