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Bullets have short range. So now you have to carpet the land with AA guns.
by dboreham 1y ago
Bullets have short range. So now you have to carpet the land with AA guns.
- lenerdenator 1y agoIt'd be interesting to see how short that range really is. A lot of assumptions about range were based on the idea of a soldier shooting at another soldier, more-or-less at a horizontal level. You had to design a bullet to accurately hit a target and disperse kinetic energy into biological tissue. Now, you're aiming at something made of non-biological materials of varying size, but they're usually lightweight and have little in the way of redundant flight systems. There's a real chance that if you send up enough small arms fire, you could hit a drone at up to a mile in the sky and cause it enough damage to be unable to complete its mission. Helicopters are known to be vulnerable to small arms fire. I don't see why an even smaller drone would be any different.
- tguvot 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMASH_Handheld#Mechanisms_and_functionality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMASH_Handheld#Mechanisms_and_...