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Comment by berniemadoff69 | Hacker News Reader

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-miBH10bdCs

Launching rockets that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars at drones that cost almost nothing is not a solution. It's a recipe for defeat via attrition. They could have 50 cheap decoy drones for every drone carrying a payload.

Also the laser is far more scalable than rockets but still easily overwhelmed and susceptible to the same attack because it cannot distinguish between decoy drones and payload drones

The laser was targeting rockets fired by a Soviet BM-21 truck-mounted multiple rocket launcher. The rockets are used like artillery, not for targeting drones. Presumably if the laser is able to destroy 40 incoming rockets then it would be able to destroy much larger numbers of relatively slow drones.

Thanks for the correction about the rockets. But I'm not so sure that the laser solves the drone problem. Drones could be launched closer and come from every direction staying close to the ground. You could also spread them out around the laser so the laser spends most of its time transiting between decoy targets

Is this highly advanced spam or something?

I've seen the original video but the audio is clearly some sort of rental property ad

I thought it was kind of surreal and endearing in a way.

More like an advertisement that says we could pay to have it developed (interesting choice of soundtrack)

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