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Re:Adversary Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and The Pentagon ... by krisoft on Monday February 06, 2023 @06:33PM (#34686165)
> But aside from that hypothesis, I fail to see why destroying invading military technology would be "exactly what your opponent wants".

You got it. There is no "aside". That is it.

Imagine you want to defeat a big powerful attack dog. You know the dog can only hurt you if it sees you. You send tiny mice towards the dog and you measure carefully how far they get before the dog kills them. If the dog is in the habit of killing every mice it sees then you can check exactly how well it can see, better than an eye-chart. And with that knowledge you can outmanoeuvre the dog.

If the dog chills out and only snaps at the mice which gets too brazen then the dog retained a strategic edge. Using this strategic edge during a real conflict the dog can surprise the attackers when the dog suddenly starts using their faculties to their fullest extent.

Re:Adversary Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and The Pentagon ... by crazygringo on Monday February 06, 2023 @06:38PM (#34686220)
Except that's only the case for attack drones.

If these are surveillance drones trying to find weaknesses in our radar and comms then we should be destroying these things as quickly as possible.

Re:Adversary Drones Are Spying on the U.S. and The Pentagon ... by krisoft on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @05:32AM (#34691021)
I don't know how to respond to you. You just repeated the same thing.

If you do that, you destroy every surveillance drone you detect, then you just shipped your radar's specs to the enemy. Because you can not destroy drones you can not see. So every time the enemy's drone survives they know it is because it was small enough, or far enough, or stealthy enough to not be seen.

If you do that you might as well invite your adversary to the proving ground and currier them the design specifications.