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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by 14 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:21AM (#29174893)
What would be the counter defense against one of these things? Would it be hard for an adversary to fly a smaller drone with explosives and a strong magnet and simply attach to one of these drones and wait for its return?
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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:25AM (#29174927)
Ah! Capture is so much harder than destroy. Capture development can take a huge budget and years to get right.

Destroy is different. Destroy is all about cost-effectiveness. An explosive decoy might work. But would a missile be cheaper? How about a hairnet stretched across its path? Maybe just some shapes drawn on a building to confuse it's navigation, make it crash into a wall.

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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by 14 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @01:43PM (#29178587)
Luckily these are the kind of things I don’t actually worry about but realize there must be teams of people who do exactly that.
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