Every month there’s a new article that improves my suburban missile defense system* and helps guarantee that my neighbors will never let their dogs poop on my lawn ever again.
Terrain mapping my neighborhood so that my rockets can navigate to the right offender has always been a challenge. Now I can just use drones!
* It’s a defense system with missiles, not a defense system against missiles. That would be silly.
Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, Seventh Edition https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Strategic-Missile-Guidance-S...
Tactical missile warheads https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Warheads-Progress-Astronauti...
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astrodynamics-Second-Dov...
In any case, I've absolutely noticed how even a Raspberry Pi Zero, taken back 40 years, would be a supercomputer beyond anything that money could buy back then.
A GPU that we'd consider obsolescent today would be truly insane in 1985.
In most of the write-up, these drones were on pre-planned autonomous routes, and would thus not be affected. Unless you also had anti-radar installations :-)
Or hell, some kinda highly-illegal and mostly-unfeasible microwave gun or multi-watt CO2 laser that you could point at a drone and bring it down.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraines-drone-makers-produc...
In the former case, you have close to zero for both. In the latter, you're dragging 2km of line behind a small aircraft, risking the line getting snagged by something on the ground.
No sense sacrificing any hardware. Zero resource attrition and imperceptible evidence of action is the name of the game.
Match that with a spot of sound out of human hearing range and you can clear the enemy of its own accord far beyond your legal and overt action spheres.
If a close neighbor’s unit stays clear but expresses its dismay regarding warning sounds too loudly, well, this works for that too.
We are talking about nuisance bears and moose, right?
Clearly the solution is laser ignition of napalm-- don't want to accidentally catch the drone on fire, so the laser can be timed to fire once the stream is clear of it.
Now we’re talking! Unfortunately I couldn’t figure out how to deploy something as viscous as napalm through my sprinkler system. I’ve been reduced to dropping it from a helicopter, the old school way.