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How Do You Fend off Swarms of Drones? The U.S. Military Has Some Ideas
https://nationalinterest.org ^ | 11/16/2020 | by Kris Osborn

Posted on 11/17/2020 5:38:08 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

Edited on 11/17/2020 6:31:21 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Here's What You Need to Remember: Certain small drones can hit speeds of 60-to-70 miles per hour, and some are small enough to fit in the palm of the hand. Swarms of these can be dispatched to cover an area with ISR and build-in redundancy so a mission can continue if one is destroyed.

Swarms of enemy drones approaching a forward operating base or groups of dismounted soldiers present a unique and increasingly challenging threat. Enemy drones can blanket areas with surveillance, test enemy defenses, jam communications and even themselves become explosives to attack targets.

The variety of uses of small drones, and the guidance systems which direct them, can be very difficult to defend against, a reality inspiring the current Air Force effort to solicit new ideas on ways to destroy them. The Air Force recently released a Request for Information (RFI) to industry, asking for new innovations able to counter small enemy drones.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drones; homedefense; munitions

The 'Magic Bullet' Drones Behind Azerbaijan's Victory Over Armenia Forbes|7 days ago Effective use of a variety of drones against ill-prepared opponents was the key to Azerbaijan's gains in the Causasus war.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/how-do-you-fend-swarms-drones-us-military-has-some-ideas-172726


1 posted on 11/17/2020 5:38:08 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

A Gatlin shotgun.


2 posted on 11/17/2020 5:40:06 PM PST by Husker24
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To: RomanSoldier19

A bigger swarm.
Lasers
Sharks with lasers
Drones with lasers
Satellites with lasers
Nuke the control centers


3 posted on 11/17/2020 5:42:07 PM PST by DannyTN (<P><a href="https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3902132/posts">)
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To: Husker24

Plastique and a quarter-million steel flechettes. If it worked in “Black Sunday”... ;)


4 posted on 11/17/2020 5:43:12 PM PST by Retrofitted
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To: DannyTN

Drones with shotguns.

Only downside - they don’t taste like chicken.


5 posted on 11/17/2020 5:45:30 PM PST by PAR35
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To: RomanSoldier19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM

An old video about what is coming ... probably for the Antichrist’s kingdom but the Left would eagerly use them against us.


6 posted on 11/17/2020 5:45:41 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Duck hunters


7 posted on 11/17/2020 5:49:49 PM PST by Old Yeller (Release the Kraken..)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The Lepage Glue Gun

Obscure Catch-22 reference.


8 posted on 11/17/2020 5:51:20 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: RomanSoldier19

There was an old round, two cannonballs with a chain in-between them, might work well.


9 posted on 11/17/2020 6:04:25 PM PST by Husker24
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To: Retrofitted

Ah the good old pre covid days when all you had to do was worry about a shower of flechettes.


10 posted on 11/17/2020 6:08:03 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: Old Yeller

Goose hunters with 3” 12 Gauge 32 inch semi autos and records of shooting 100 straight in trap shooting and limits in goose kills.


11 posted on 11/17/2020 6:13:16 PM PST by Grampa Dave ( Governors certify the electoral votes! Congress declares the winners! Not the left wing mediots!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

1. Lots of netting and other physical barriers.

2. Anti-swarms stored in dispensers. With squibbed batteries for long shelf life.

Trump should never appear outdoors IMHO. Especially at night.

12 posted on 11/17/2020 6:23:16 PM PST by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Lots of string or light fishing line spooled up into the air. Like silly string!


13 posted on 11/17/2020 6:25:20 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Bump


14 posted on 11/17/2020 6:26:07 PM PST by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis. This is how Democracy dies.)
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To: Husker24

Homemade bolas using 20lb fishing line and rocks


15 posted on 11/17/2020 6:28:52 PM PST by KierkegaardMAN (This is the sort of stuff up with which I shall not put!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Did you see where the North Koreans are using trained Tunas or something?

What about this?

Trained interceptor Hummingbirds.

They fly up to a drone and start humming “Muskrat Love”, and the drone crashes itself into the ground to end its misery.

And yes I know Tony Tenille is beautiful.


16 posted on 11/17/2020 6:37:40 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: RomanSoldier19

“One button shutdown” of all good guy electronics. Electrically hardened. Small emp.

Then turn back on...I said, turn back on!!! Damkit, TURN BACK ON!!!


17 posted on 11/17/2020 6:41:20 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (This is all a Soros funded communist insurrection! )
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To: blueunicorn6

Soros recently bought 18.5 million shares of Palantir (PLTR).


18 posted on 11/17/2020 7:02:45 PM PST by gasport (Vote Democrat . . . Win stupid stuff)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Directed EMP pulse waves.


19 posted on 11/17/2020 7:19:23 PM PST by Daniel Ramsey
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To: RomanSoldier19

Water hoses.


20 posted on 11/17/2020 7:47:18 PM PST by tbw2
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