Noblman_Swerve t1_ja9q5zo wrote on February 27, 2023 at 9:44 PM

I mean there are not many examples of high-tech militaries dealing with significant drone attacks because we haven't seen WW3. Jamming is only effective against commercial drones.

US military has placed countering UAS as a priority, they do not have a coordinated strategy on dealing with them. US still relies on conventional AAA to deal with drones. Every different theater would need many different answers as it currently stands, which is not a problem for the enemy just mass-producing cheap kamikaze drones.

CryptoOGkauai t1_jab7tap wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:14 AM

This is one solution that’s already being tested on Navy destroyers as a close in weapons system against drones, boats, jets and missiles: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43795/navy-is-betting-big-on-high-power-microwave-weapons

The nice thing about this solution is it’s much cheaper than kinetic weapons and it can cover a wide area cone to get multiple targets at once. Another advantage: the microwave beam travels at light speed so it cannot be dodged.

jl2352 t1_ja9vwve wrote on February 27, 2023 at 10:21 PM

Also Israel has been researching military equipment to deal with low cost missiles, and the US has been paying close attention to that.

The big worry however are the seaborn drones. It's not so much the cheap drones, but having them attack in timed swarms together. That makes the drones significantly more effective, and is why Russia's Navy now mostly stays away from Ukrainian shores.

SapperBomb t1_ja9y64h wrote on February 27, 2023 at 10:37 PM

> the US use drones to overwhelm Iraq's Air Defenses in 1991...

Im sorry what?

Mydogsblackasshole t1_jaaapog wrote on February 28, 2023 at 12:03 AM

Had drones fly over/around Iraqi air defense radar sites to saturate their view and leave them unable to determine what was a drone, and what was a manned aircraft.

SapperBomb t1_jaasjn5 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:13 AM

I'm aware of drones being used for reconnaissance and after some searching I found an article that mentions using 3 drones as part of a SEAD/strike package to get enemy SAMs to light up. Is that what you are referring to?

Matt3989 t1_jaa20nh wrote on February 27, 2023 at 11:03 PM

You'll probably also be surprised to learn that we were using radio controlled unmanned aircraft as early as WWI.

And prior to that the Austrian military used balloons with timers to drop bombs on Venice.

SapperBomb t1_jaasy2b wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:16 AM

>You'll probably also be surprised to learn that we were using radio controlled unmanned aircraft as early as WWI. > >And prior to that the Austrian military used balloons with timers to drop bombs on Venice.

....?

So anyway, I did some searching and I'm not coming up with what you are talking about. Do you wanna point me in a direction or drop a source?

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SapperBomb t1_jabairq wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:38 AM

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear.

The "...?" was me being puzzled as to why you started talking about Austrian balloons and WW1 when I questioned your claim about "American drones over whelming Iraqi air defenses", during the gulf war

And the reason I followed that with " so anyway...", was due to the condescending nature of your comments and I didn't want to engage you on Austrian fucking balloons and WW1 as it had nothing to do with what I was asking about and frankly, I don't care anymore.

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SapperBomb t1_jabdz2y wrote on February 28, 2023 at 5:12 AM

Well I don't really give a fuck what you think because you didn't even have the consideration to read any of my replies otherwise you would have answered them coherently instead of trying to dazzle me with your faux take on history.

You have still yet to back up your original claim, which I attempted to verify myself but could not, presumably because your full of shit. Stick to Austrian balloons kiddo

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Matt3989 t1_ja97sah wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:49 PM