The Chicoms.
If any FReepers are in the Association of Old Crows and read the JED (Journal of Electronic Dominance), you’ll feel a bit better about our ability to defeat enemy drone weapons systems if you review JED issues and articles from about the last four months. The US (with allies) have developed some really effective anti-drone systems. They range from man-portable to theater-wide.
I long ago predicted that future wars will include drone *armadas*, and the realistic way to fight an armada is with another armada. My key point is that the overwhelming majority of these drones will be built “on the cheap”, for about the same price as an economy car.
Which means any nation that can manufacture economy cars can build drones. A single Boeing F-15EX Eagle II costs over $90 million each. You can build a LOT of $50,000 drones for that amount of money. They might kill a thousand of them, but every one that gets through can reap havoc. Most will be on suicide missions.
Lots of these drones will use a combination of cheap computer, and hardware guidance, so if their computer is electronically fried, they might lose a little accuracy, but will still make it to their target. Otherwise, electronic interference will have little to no effect on them.
I wonder how one Phalax would respond to 100 swarming drones...
Don’t see that on youtube