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Very true, although the question is at what distance it would effect that, because a clustered explosive payload just needs to go off near the target and have t
by TheRealPomax 3y ago
Very true, although the question is at what distance it would effect that, because a clustered explosive payload just needs to go off near the target and have the pressure wave do the rest. Going off "on" the target is ideal, but not strictly necessary to do the damage it needs to do.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoSo I'm thinking - on the one hand, the effectiveness of microwaves drops with r². On the other hand, this solution enables continuous tracking and delivery (whether the beam itself is continuous or pulsed), and it only uses electricity, which may have significant logistics benefits over any kind of physical projectile.
- TheRealPomax 3y agoDefinitely, but when it comes to counter-offensive, the same rules apply: you don't need to blow up each drone in a swarm. You just need to cause a big enough explosion near enough drones (just like how we don't shoot airplanes or ships by direct impact anymore, we "make thing go boom" close enough to a plane or ship to cause enough catastrophic damage to the flight surfaces/hull and if there's a direct impact, that's just a bonus)
- anonymousiam 3y agoIt's 1/r², and the pulsed currents induced into the proposed wire mesh would likely produce some strong local EM effects -- possibly enough to overwhelm the rest of the drone electronics. Sure, you could build a drone to resist this sort of attack, but SWAP would go way up, and range + mission effectiveness would go down.
- mycall 3y agoI wonder if pulse-wave beamforming can amplify the microwaves to the point where it is < 1/r^2.