Re:AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation
by dragonwriter on Saturday August 22, 2020 @05:32PM
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> How do you expect to take down a SAM site? Its specifically designed to destroy air targets as they approach.
> With what, with air-drones? Against a hardened anti-air specialty base?
Yep, air drones (or, to use the more common name, “missiles”, whether launched from the surface or launched from manned aircraft) are by far the most effective technique.
In fact, there are missiles optimized exclusively for that (anti-radiation missiles for taking out radars sites.)
> You don't approach a SAM site (or any area a SAM site is defending) from the air.
Yes, you usually do.
> US Patriot systems can take out SCUD missiles traveling at Mach 5.
SCUDs are ballistic missiles, which at any given speed are the easiest thing to hit, since they don't maneuver.
> And if your "kamikaze drones" are flying at Mach 5 with an explosive payload, that makes them effectively a SCUD missile.
No, it makes them hypersonic cruise missiles. Which no one, anywhere, has a particularly good counter for right now.
> With what, with air-drones? Against a hardened anti-air specialty base?
Yep, air drones (or, to use the more common name, “missiles”, whether launched from the surface or launched from manned aircraft) are by far the most effective technique.
In fact, there are missiles optimized exclusively for that (anti-radiation missiles for taking out radars sites.)
> You don't approach a SAM site (or any area a SAM site is defending) from the air.
Yes, you usually do.
> US Patriot systems can take out SCUD missiles traveling at Mach 5.
SCUDs are ballistic missiles, which at any given speed are the easiest thing to hit, since they don't maneuver.
> And if your "kamikaze drones" are flying at Mach 5 with an explosive payload, that makes them effectively a SCUD missile.
No, it makes them hypersonic cruise missiles. Which no one, anywhere, has a particularly good counter for right now.