What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons?

Re:What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons? by sushisource on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:43PM (#17709921)

To the article's credit, none of these solutions address the "high up drone dropping a grenade on you in an area you can't secure beforehand" - simply because you won't know it's there until it's too late.

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Re:What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons? by mikec3010 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @06:41PM (#17711561)

But that's not uniquely a drone problem. Aren't modern mortar shells wicked accurate?the trigonometry that governs them has been known for centuries.

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Re:What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons? by gruez on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:13PM (#17711777)

i can't imagine how unguided shells can be that accurate, especially if you only have one shot. trigonometry helps, but there are way too many unknowns (mainly atmospheric cconditions) for it to work perfectly.

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Re:What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons? by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @09:59PM (#17712626)

We have guided bullets today. A guided mortar is downright trivial in comparison.

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Re:What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons? by falcor84 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:18PM (#17711807)

agreed, reminds me of this xkcd :)

https://xkcd.com/1958/

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Re:What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons? by mikec3010 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @08:50PM (#17712291)

Reminds me of the fallacy that Autonomous vehicles need to be absolutely infallible, when in fact they only need to have fewer fatalities per mile than humans.

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