TomS said:30mm ABM. Just a matter of finding the right dispense point to get multiple small drones in one pattern.
DENVER, Colorado — Last winter, on the outskirts of a large U.S. city, an FBI hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post to assess an unfolding situation. Soon they heard the buzz of small drones — and then the tiny aircraft were all around them, swooping past in a series of “high-speed low passes at the agents in the observation post to flush them,” the head of the agency’s operational technology law unit told attendees of the AUVSI Xponential conference here. Result: “We were then blind,” said Joe Mazel, meaning the group lost
bobbymike said:https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/05/criminal-gang-used-drone-swarm-obstruct-fbi-raid/147956/?oref=defense_one_breaking_nl
DENVER, Colorado — Last winter, on the outskirts of a large U.S. city, an FBI hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post to assess an unfolding situation. Soon they heard the buzz of small drones — and then the tiny aircraft were all around them, swooping past in a series of “high-speed low passes at the agents in the observation post to flush them,” the head of the agency’s operational technology law unit told attendees of the AUVSI Xponential conference here. Result: “We were then blind,” said Joe Mazel, meaning the group lost
Darpa has demonstrated algorithms that could enable small commercial drones to become autonomous scouts in urban battle zones or searchers for survivors inside buildings damaged by natural disasters.
In flight tests conducted under Phase 2 of the agency’s Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program, quadcopters flew between buildings and through alleyways in a mock town, and entered a building through a window, mapped the interior and navigated autonomously down a stairwell and out of an open door.
Building on Phase 1 flights in 2017, the tests at the Guardian Center urban training facility in Perry, Georgia, showed significant progress in outdoor as well as indoor autonomous flight scenarios, Darpa says.
sferrin said:Swarms don't need huge warheads.
https://theaviationist.com/2018/01/08/defining-asymmetrical-warfare-extremists-use-retail-drones-to-attack-russian-air-base-in-syria/
Beside particular port authorities what purpose does this have? Seems like a robot that is major labor intensive
Beside particular port authorities what purpose does this have? Seems like a robot that is major labor intensive
Imagine, if you will, 60 or so of these little bots armed with an EFP warhead, launched from a sub aboard a carrier craft. The bots surround a ship through a full 360 degrees and then drive into that boat at or below the waterline. That could have a marked effect on the ship.
Very clever cluster bomblets.
The storage of the things on your submarine and probability of mishaps... The low range thus exposing your submarine. The warhead effects (target splits itself in half on its own weight) design and the evolution of torpedos which work from further and further distances as technology improves fits the bill.Beside particular port authorities what purpose does this have? Seems like a robot that is major labor intensive
Imagine, if you will, 60 or so of these little bots armed with an EFP warhead, launched from a sub aboard a carrier craft. The bots surround a ship through a full 360 degrees and then drive into that boat at or below the waterline. That could have a marked effect on the ship.
Very clever cluster bomblets.
The storage of the things on your submarine and probability of mishaps... The low range thus exposing your submarine. The warhead effects (target splits itself in half on its own weight) design and the evolution of torpedos which work from further and further distances as technology improves fits the bill.Beside particular port authorities what purpose does this have? Seems like a robot that is major labor intensive
Imagine, if you will, 60 or so of these little bots armed with an EFP warhead, launched from a sub aboard a carrier craft. The bots surround a ship through a full 360 degrees and then drive into that boat at or below the waterline. That could have a marked effect on the ship.
Very clever cluster bomblets.
Beside particular port authorities what purpose does this have? Seems like a robot that is major labor intensive
The idea of swarm technology sounds like fun. But there is a great abundance of microwave weapons(like guns) being created. Introduction of EMP emitting missiles.