Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ...
by petre on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @04:49PM
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Rafael Systems sells Drone Dome anti drone mobile defense.
Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ...
by FridayoLeary on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:52PM
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I think they even proved themselves in the recent Gaza campaign.
Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ...
by trhway on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:18PM
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I don't think there were any real military drones. While an RC model/quad with a grenade does qualify as a weapon, the purposely built military drones have orders of magnitude better communication over longer range, incl. remote high precision targeting, loitering times, and carry a high precision stand-off missiles (that is an important point because the defense has to shoot the small fast incoming missile while the drone itself carries several missiles and loiters outside of the CIWS/SHORAD range waiting for the window of opportunity, and thus shooting the drone itself requires much more expensive/heavy air-defense system).
Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ...
by imtringued on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @02:28AM
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The iron dome defends against saturation attacks. You see the average HN poster come up with swarm buzzwords and then talk about how defense against saturation attacks is impossible meanwhile the iron dome intercepts 90%+ of hamas rockets even though they are sending thousands of them.
Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ...
by petre on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @11:45PM
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They don't even claim it works on bigger military drones, but smaller drones or drone swarms. It uses a microwave beam to disable or a high energy laser to shoot down the drones. I think the bigger ones like Predator could be shot down by other drones armed with low payload missiles. Repurposed Iron Dome style defenses could also be used at shorter range.
no. Azerbajan/Turkey went into it only after verifying that it works, to the devastating effect, against the Russian made air-defenses in Syria and Libya. Now Ukraine has bought these drones and is starting their production. In the next year or two we'll see them being used to the same great effect in Donbass. So far Russia hasn't managed to come up with any meaningful defense. If anything the recognition of the issue has only started to dawn on them, and by the time they manage something the Turkish/Ukranian (they discuss collaborative development) drones will improve another level up - drone capabilities at the current stage (beginning of the hockey stick) are much faster to improve - add speed, a bit of stealth, [partial] autonomy, coordinated swarming. It is a new paradigm shifting generation of warfare like iron navy ships, machine guns, planes, missiles, etc. were in their respective times.