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Re:The Era of the Drone Swarm Is Coming by walrus01 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:15PM (#18306248)
anti drone swarm drone: several dozen large-ish sized x8 hexacopters, capable of 2 hour flight time and carrying a 10kg load, with a gimbal mounted semiauto 12 gauge shotgun + large magazine of birdshot shells.

Drone swarms are possible, sure, but it's also quite possible to miniaturize existing concepts of antiaircraft missiles and guns, and automate those.

Or build swarms of disposable 2 meter wingspan size drones that can fly above a drone swarm, and drop chaff consisting of long lengths of fishing line. Tangle propellers.

Basically something like this, which is a bit smaller than the Zipline drones:

https://www.banggood.com/Believer-1960mm-Wingspan-EPO-Portab...

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Re:The Era of the Drone Swarm Is Coming by gotocake on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:31PM (#18306333)
...100 years later it’s all nanoscale and we’re living in ‘The Diamond Age” and wondering where it all went wrong.
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Re:The Era of the Drone Swarm Is Coming by robotresearcher on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:16PM (#18306491)
Drones are small and hard to see with small cheap sensors. You have to see them to shoot them, the range of a shotgun is very small, and the sky is a big place.
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Re:The Era of the Drone Swarm Is Coming by mlthoughts2018 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:26PM (#18306310)
anti anti drone swarm drone drone swarm: a swarm of those.
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Re:The Era of the Drone Swarm Is Coming by walrus01 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:32PM (#18306334)
or, fly a C-17 sized aircraft at FL400 over the anti-anti-anti-droneswarm and drop many metric tons of unspooled fine gauge fishing line. More seriously though, if small drone swarms will be limited in the altitudes that they can reach (being limited by battery life, not enough motor runtime to ascend to FL200, travel laterally, and then down to a ground attack again, for instance), any modern air force that can establish air superiority over a battlefield... Will have a lot of different options to attack drone swarms from above.
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