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As the ship was host to a S-300F system, roughly analogous to the US's AEGIS missile defense, getting distracted by a single drone sounds like it should be yet
by Arrath 5y ago
As the ship was host to a S-300F system, roughly analogous to the US's AEGIS missile defense, getting distracted by a single drone sounds like it should be yet another black eye in this whole chain of events.
- dathinab 5y agoWhat if, just hypothetical, it was a swarm. (I don't think it was in this case). I mean private persons can use drone swarms to put pictures on the night sky. And while they are rout pre-programmed, it's not hard to use a template to very fast pre-program a drone swarm to fly some pseudo randomized pattern around a ship of which the position is known.
- weeblewobble 5y agoLikely not a consumer class drone/quadcopter like what you're picturing, but a combat drone (basically a small airplane) like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baykar_Bayraktar_TB2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baykar_Bayraktar_TB2
- favorited 5y agoThe analysis I saw noted that their air defense only had a 180-degree range. So a drone could be used to distract their defense, get it pointed away from the Neptune launcher, then fire from the ship's blind spot.