There’s an interesting article at Popular Science on anti-drone strategies. There’s an astonishing number of them, from nets to attack eagles to electronic strategies. I think that either a jamming strategy or overriding the drones’ control signals is likely to be the cheapest, easiest, and most effective way of opposing them but it’s interesting to see what people are coming up with.
A mounted 2-gauge shot gun would be more fun. Well, except for the attack eagle. Attack eagles would be awesome!
It’s a problem that’s being strenuously worked on by the military, given the speed and innovation displayed by ISIS in particular, but also more generally. It’s asymmetric in the sense that our present systems aren’t very good at countering small drone threats.
Welcome back, Ellipsis. We’ve missed you. At least some of us have missed you.
Nice seeing a post from you ice. Tasty was inquiring about your absence on this site just the other day.
I’ve been having a blast. 2017 is the best year ever!
Seriously, the year is presenting one riotous piece of stupidity after another. Here’s another one:
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/830806647895384064
This year will kill me with laughter before it’s over!
(For the record, I’m not being sarcastic at all. This year has been a hoot, from the current threat to wash Sacramento off the map via deluge to the media obsessing over whether or not Trump currently owns a bathrobe for a whole fucking week. It’s been great, very high energy!)
Ice, we’ll back to the derangement syndrome dominating the Bush era – it’s all about the R’s government dominance, especially in the WH!
“Ice, we’ll back to the derangement syndrome dominating the Bush era”
Yup, next thing you know someone will claim Trump is from Kenya.
Steve