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Use another AI system to strobe a laser at the cameras of all the drones in the area and see if you can overwhelm their optics.

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If you can accurately strobe it with a laser, why not use the same targeting system to shoot it down? But good systems like that with sufficient capacity won't be cheap. And they'd be prime targets for artillery during an offensive operation.

Then again, from watching the publicly available videos, it seems like these drones have been most useful for defensive operations on the battlefield.

> If you can accurately strobe it with a laser, why not use the same targeting system to shoot it down?

There will always be a chance that the targeting system misses so strobbing a laser (or bidirectional jamming) will minimize the risk of damaging the surrounding area (people, animals, etc.) vs shooting it down with bullets/nets.

Also a laser that emits enough light to blind a sensor may not be classified as a munition, whereas something that emits projectiles is almost always classified as a munition.

Or just install some cheap steel cable mesh awnings...

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