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This is not clear at all. Rockets and artillery shells follow high trajectory, extremely predictable ballistic paths. If your radar is good enough to accurate
by mdorazio 5y ago
This is not clear at all. Rockets and artillery shells follow high trajectory, extremely predictable ballistic paths. If your radar is good enough to accurately spot the rocket or shell against the entirely blank backdrop of sky, you can shoot it down. Drones, on the other hand, can fly low to the ground and move in unpredictable ways if needed so that 1) radar can't find them easily, and 2) even if it does, your counter weaponry will probably have trouble doing much.
A lot of anti-drone weapons today are based on the idea of disrupting drone-to-controller comms to force them to return or land, but if you setup your drone on a one-way trip with zero need to communicate to a controller, your countering options get limited pretty quickly.
- Retric 5y agoOff the shelf drones are so slow they don’t need to be predicted. Signal jamming is the default because it’s safe, cheap, and effective. However at Phalanx CIWS is more than happy to shoot down a drone, but using one for anti drone work presents some inherent risks as it’s quite possibly going to target sea birds by mistake. Anyway, if you’re thinking about a custom built drone which follows pre programmed flight paths to a preset target, congratulations that’s a cruse missile. Various versions have traded off speed to follow the terrain more closely, but speed is considered more useful than extremely low speeds.
- c_o_n_v_e_x 5y agoJamming GNSS is the next obvious choice. Low noise gyros and accelerometers needed for inertial guidance/dead reckoning over long distances are expensive. Now something that could fly via visual guidance like a Skydio is interesting... Counter with giant spotlights or laser dazzlers to blind the onboard cameras?