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Solution: Get a modern car but simply build a Faraday cage around it, like those anti-drone "cope cages" you see on Russian tanks.

nerdsniper 5mo ago
I believe faraday cages need to be grounded. I'm not sure what the resistivity of rolling rubber tires are.
- GJim 5mo ago
  These were all the rage in the 1980/90's https://duckduckgo.com/?q=car+anti-static+strap https://duckduckgo.com/?q=car+anti-static+strap
  - red-iron-pine 5mo ago
    the progenitor of the truck nuts also, wasn't static causing fires at gas station pumps, esp. in cold weather?
- AngryData 5mo ago
  They don't HAVE to be grounded, but they are WAY more effective if they are.
genewitch 5mo ago
cope cages look like hardware fence (like chicken wire but welded, pig fence, sheep fence, goat fence are closer.) However, the US already put fencing around fighting vehicles, specifically the Bradley, where the fence was essentially "chain link fencing". I'm not entirely sure i buy that the cope cage stops drones; but the chain link fence absolutely stops RPGs from exploding by severing the wire that runs on the outside from the tip to the explosive.
- krige 5mo ago
  Original cope cages were a very misguided attempt to copy the functionality of the actual working fence-like defensive measures. Except in those cases they did next to nothing, which is why they were dubbed cope cages. AFAICT the concept was improved since then but I haven't been following the tech tree of cobbled-together defensive measures used in that war in a good while.
  - genewitch 5mo ago
    haha, i was wondering why i'd never heard the term. So a cope cage is a cargo cult artifact?
  - genewitch 5mo ago
    if anyone wants to see what the bradleys in Iraq were kitted out with, https://imgur.com/a/vCXPqUa https://imgur.com/a/vCXPqUa this is circa 2008 or so. Mentioned to a friend who always mentions that chain link fencing saved his life and now i come to find out it was just bar armor. weak! * not weak, it saved my friend's life, awesome.

nerdsniper 5mo ago

I believe faraday cages need to be grounded. I'm not sure what the resistivity of rolling rubber tires are.

GJim 5mo ago
These were all the rage in the 1980/90's https://duckduckgo.com/?q=car+anti-static+strap https://duckduckgo.com/?q=car+anti-static+strap
- red-iron-pine 5mo ago
  the progenitor of the truck nuts also, wasn't static causing fires at gas station pumps, esp. in cold weather?
AngryData 5mo ago
They don't HAVE to be grounded, but they are WAY more effective if they are.

genewitch 5mo ago

cope cages look like hardware fence (like chicken wire but welded, pig fence, sheep fence, goat fence are closer.) However, the US already put fencing around fighting vehicles, specifically the Bradley, where the fence was essentially "chain link fencing". I'm not entirely sure i buy that the cope cage stops drones; but the chain link fence absolutely stops RPGs from exploding by severing the wire that runs on the outside from the tip to the explosive.

krige 5mo ago
Original cope cages were a very misguided attempt to copy the functionality of the actual working fence-like defensive measures. Except in those cases they did next to nothing, which is why they were dubbed cope cages. AFAICT the concept was improved since then but I haven't been following the tech tree of cobbled-together defensive measures used in that war in a good while.
- genewitch 5mo ago
  haha, i was wondering why i'd never heard the term. So a cope cage is a cargo cult artifact?
- genewitch 5mo ago
  if anyone wants to see what the bradleys in Iraq were kitted out with, https://imgur.com/a/vCXPqUa https://imgur.com/a/vCXPqUa this is circa 2008 or so. Mentioned to a friend who always mentions that chain link fencing saved his life and now i come to find out it was just bar armor. weak! * not weak, it saved my friend's life, awesome.