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Something that popped into my head is a drone tossing a grenade through a window. The military would go nuts over this.
by devindotcom 14y ago
Something that popped into my head is a drone tossing a grenade through a window. The military would go nuts over this.
- samstave 14y agoIt's sad that research like this is first thought to be most of value killing people.
- Wingman4l7 14y agoThey are going nuts over this. Just look at DARPA drone research, all the manufacturing contracts, the increased battlefield use, the call for more pilots to be trained...
- kunle 14y agoThey are already doing this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281403/U-S-Air-Force-developing-terrifying-swarms-tiny-unmanned-drones-hover-crawl-kill-targets.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281403/U-S-Air-Forc...
- kruken 14y agoLots of scary things are possible as the hardware gets smaller/lighter/stronger and the control algorithms get more sophisticated. Grenade lobbing is quite pedestrian compared to "precision targeting" in the video here: http://bit.ly/W6DnuO http://bit.ly/W6DnuO
- sliverstorm 14y agoWhat happens when somebody else develops a drone to catch & return grenades thrown in through your window?
- sliverstorm 14y ago(I'm guessing the answer cumulates in anti-drone drones, e.g. air superiority drones. Drone dogfights!)
- elektronaut 14y agoOr simply stronger windows.
- slurgfest 14y agoOr a person can use a grenade launcher
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoPresumably the drone is the "grenade" and so performs evasive tactics. Targetted EMP? Or simply has a "balloon" to make it physically unable to exit the window again (bonus that the balloon blocks out natural light inside and seals the explosion magnifying the effect inside, eg for flashbang).
- mparlane 14y agoI'd just make the drones the bomb. Instead of the bomb deploy-er. These things will only get cheaper to produce anyway.
- ajuc 14y agoYep, that's the way it will evolve, I think. Let's say you can mass-produce a drone with anti-tank explosive for $5000. That's much cheaper than guided anti-tank missiles we have now. And they can be designed to only work for 10 minutes, so no good quality materials required. Make 1000 of them ($5 000 000 is sth like 1 tank), put them in groups of 20 in 50 places where you suspect enemy will attack. Program them to wait with sensors on, when they detect enemy tanks they go up, land on tanks and explode. Tanks usually have much less armor on the top.