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posted by martyb on Monday February 13 2017, @01:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the drones-with-shotguns dept.

This year, the world saw a long-theorized weapon in action: a commercial drone, like a person might find at Best Buy, dropping a bomb on a target in Iraq. These drone bombers, used by the ultra-violent quasi-state ISIS in Iraq and Syria, are the flashiest combination of modern technologies with the modern battlefield. Cheap, camera-carrying robots, put to nefarious ends by a group that could never otherwise dream of fielding an air force. Dropping grenades isn't the deadliest thing an insurgent group can do with a small flying robot, but it leads to a very important question: What, exactly, is the answer to such a drone?

[...] Here is just a short sample of the more out-there anti-drone tools: net guns, drones carrying nets, squads of drones with nets, drones with net guns, and a smart anti-drone bazooka that fires, you guessed it, a net at a drone (we liked that last one). There was a vaporware drone concept that ensnared the propellers of other drones with wire. A Russian firm floated the concept of a microwave gun, to fry the electronics of hostile drones. And most famously, there are the Dutch police eagles, trained to snag a drone from the sky.

Part of the problem for law enforcement, the Pentagon, and other entities trying to protect against drones is that they're cheap. Workable quadcopters cost as little as a couple hundred dollars. Is there a way to knock drones out of the sky that's just as cheap as the drone itself?

Source

http://www.popsci.com/how-to-stop-a-drone


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2017, @08:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13 2017, @08:16PM (#466728)

    This is why it's time to say, 'Fuck it', and drop the bomb, exterminate them all. Right now we are fighting a PR war, and we will lose until we do what is necessary. Too many people on the planet anyway. We could do quite well to wipe out 5 or 6 billion people and still keep a sufficient labor force to clean up. The time is now. Let's see if Trump is up to the task.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @02:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @02:50AM (#466822)

    Troll?! Obviously some people can't handle the truth. You wimps are destroying America! Dark days of tyranny lie ahead because of you people. You're so fucking weak! Most likely democrats. You're letting the nazis win.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @03:49AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @03:49AM (#466838)

      Truth is often in the eye of the beholder.

      Wiping people out for the sake of wiping people out is pretty damned stupid.

      Want to nuke a bunch of people, and maybe do some good along the way? What if I offer you something just as dramatic and intimidating, but less poisonous, and with a goal in mind?

      Kinetic weapons from space! Harness a metal asteroid. Start mining it. Forge some nice finned spears out of that metal. Transport the spears to earth orbit. Start dropping those spears on mosques around the world. Pinpoint accuracy, you can single out a mosque in crowded neighborhood, and destroy it with "acceptable" collateral damage. Demoralize the Muslims - just tell them, "Your Allah can't even protect his own house, he won't protect you either!" With those spears, you can destroy single buildings, or with larger spears, you can destroy entire neighborhoods - even cities. And, they don't introduce any radiation.

      We have more than sufficient reason to hate Islam. We have no reason to hate Arabs, or Africans, or Europeans, or anyone else who happens to be Islamic. Most of them are just like you and me - we grew up believing what our parents taught us to believe. Demoralize Islam, and start converting all those Muslims to other, less dangerous faiths.

      No need to be hateful, no need to poison the planet.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by Bogsnoticus on Tuesday February 14 2017, @05:38AM

        by Bogsnoticus (3982) on Tuesday February 14 2017, @05:38AM (#466864)

        Less dangerous faiths? Like christianity with its history of buggering altar boys, bombing planned parenthood centres, and murdering doctors?

        All religions are dangerous, as they promote a lack of critical thinking, they don't have to think for themselves, because their book of fairytales insists that something is the way it is due to the skydaddy(s) making that way, and thus cannot be chanhged.

        --
        Genius by birth. Evil by choice.
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @07:18AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @07:18AM (#466881)

          All religions are dangerous

          That's why nukes are the best way to take care of the problem. And who cares about the 'religion' angle? The best place to start is the Middle East, Africa, India and Asia. They're nothing but a drain on civilized society anyway, regardless of their religion. Let's get rid of them all.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @07:36AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @07:36AM (#466887)

            Corporations are a bigger drain on civilized society, they leach wealth from local economies.

    • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday February 14 2017, @09:56AM

      by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Tuesday February 14 2017, @09:56AM (#466904) Journal

      I guess you got modded troll because there isn't a "-1 genocidal loon" mod option.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @04:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @04:17AM (#466848)

    This is why it's time to say, 'Fuck it', and drop the bomb, exterminate them all.

    Quickest way to get the things going: start with NY, Washington, LA.