Posted on 06/21/2017 10:45:56 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Read about the Q-ships in 7th grade or so, a fascinating story that stayed with me.
But this possibility has potential for far greater damage. Any strait, bay, container port...as Mao Tse Tung said, “The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.” Well, applies to schools of container ships as well. Or off loaded in some giant container port here, Europe, South East Asia...
How does one differentiate between a container of high sports drones and weaponized drone swarms?
Scary potential.
War is rapidly devolving to where the amateur can out-imagine the professional soldier.
War Colleges must be going crazy...
(Short answers b/c bad connectio;>)
The Russian 3M-54 Klub K was tested for this in 2011. Israel designed theirs to deal with Iran
Two solutions. Use software to deal with the rolling movement of the ship.
OR... have the software disregard the gyros until just after the missile leaves the launch tube.
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