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I disagree. Given a drone high enough that it can’t be shot down with anti aircraft cannons, it must be shot down with a missile. Make the payload powerful enou
by jmpman 4y ago
I disagree. Given a drone high enough that it can’t be shot down with anti aircraft cannons, it must be shot down with a missile. Make the payload powerful enough that it can create damage of much higher cost than the missile, and the defender will be forced to use the missile. Now, optimize these high altitude drones for the lowest cost, and send them in a swarm. Send them during cloud cover, and a land based laser will be ineffective. Coupled with a CRPA antenna, these GPS guided drones would be hard to stop. As long as you can produce these drones for cheaper than the defensive missile, the attacker wins.
- slt2021 4y agoconventional warfare is going lose to drones, no doubt about that. I am not sure about hybrid/proxy wars where line between civilian and enemy is blurred (afghanistan, gaza strip). as powerful as it is, but you cant launch swarm of drones at civilian village which may host a couple insurgents. the only true countermeasure against western military tech will become hybrid conflict, where entire civilian population is an adversary, where you cannot win by military means only.
- Aeolun 4y ago> as powerful as it is, but you cant launch swarm of drones at civilian village which may host a couple insurgents. If a hellfire missile with a few civilian casualties is acceptable, I don’t see why a swarm of drones with a few civilian casualties isn’t. Not that I think it’s acceptable in the first place, but…
- slt2021 4y agosounds like russians bombing Ukrainian villages
- jmpman 4y agoCivilized countries can’t. But once this technology becomes more widely available, would Hamas hesitate to send a swarm of high altitude drone bombers into civilian populations? If ISIS had this technology, would they have hesitated to carpet bomb every city in their path?