Posted on 07/29/2009 6:37:03 PM PDT by myknowledge
You can use computers. When they drone detects an intruder, the computer can follow a predetermined set of instructions to shoot it down with an AA missile from long range.
You put 3 drones in the area. Two drones are protecting the main drone. The fighters fly a figure 8 until they detect a bogey. They intercept it and kill it. Meanwhile the other drone does its job.
The Ruskies have some really neat jamming equipment.
Any serious war scenario will see the satellites become orbiting junk, and the controllers’ signals go no further than line of sight.
Meanwhile, the Flankers and PACs will rule the sky while those woop-de-do drones spiral into the ground. So much for trying to achieve air-superiority on the cheap.
Nano-UAVs are going to be a big improvement over sending troops (or as a supplement to sending in troops to do the mopping up), eventually; delivered by plane, missile (like plastic paratroopers on the 4th of July), or larger UAV, they’ll collect and beam back mountains of surveillance, be basically impossible to shoot down, and in time will even be weaponized to basically annihilate opposing forces (particularly guerrila forces) in the field.
“Nano-UAVs are going to be a big improvement...”
“Going to be” is the operative phrase - and when the Obama/Gates/Dems see any chance those thing might work as you advertize, there will suddenly be homeless to feed first, just like the F22, and soon the F35, and then NASA’s manned space program.
This is not a march toward effective weapons - cheap or otherwise - it is about uniltaerally disarming the US by removing one effective weapon at a time, while promising something better which has yet to be produced - like the F35 and your beloved Nano-UAVs.
You’re correct there.
I’d take manned Gen 5 fighters like the Raptor over a UAV any day.
That’s because you cannot jam a human pilot in a jet fighter whereas you can jam the datalink systems in UAVs.
You don’t need a datalink to launch an AMRAAM against a bogey
I meant the datalink connection between the GCS and the UAV.
It can be jammed or have the satellites destroyed.
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