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Relative stealth, cost plus response time? Imagine a soldier designating a target and one drone of the loitering swarm automatically locks on and suicides into
by scottLobster 4y ago
Relative stealth, cost plus response time? Imagine a soldier designating a target and one drone of the loitering swarm automatically locks on and suicides into it, no human interaction required.
Also would be a lot cheaper than maintaining a ship or AC130 on station.
- asdff 4y agoCan't you already send a missile from thousands of miles away in mere minutes though? That way, your "loitering" swarm in this case (really just a missile silo) can be maintained in an area that is more secure than overhead of the enemy at all times where it could potentially be engaged before you use it to designate targets.
- scottLobster 4y agoSure, but sometimes the bad guys move within minutes, and missiles are terribly expensive. I'm thinking more on a tactical level, like a swarm of super long range, relatively cheap on-demand precision hand grenades that the soldiers wouldn't have to carry, could strike targets at a distance in seconds due to locality, and could fly around corners and through windows if necessary. And the unused drones can potentially be retrieved when the engagement is complete. Of course if the enemy has technological countermeasures to such a thing then it becomes a different issue, but you can say that about any technology.