What's the defense against a swarm of small drones armed

>>32630742
>a swarm of small drones armed with explosives

You mean missiles.

>>32630752
i think he meant drones

Drone swarms. Another area of modern warfare the US ignores whilst China steams ahead. Going to be bloody when China has had enough of US bullying.

>>32630742
Birdshot

>>32630742
Jamming, APS, drones.

>>32630766
>bullying
ChiCom pls

>>32630742
A swarm of drones armed with shotguns

Funnily enough - Weather Balloons. Weather Balloons with thin cables attached to a small weight and wind glove to cause the cables to spread out all over the place. The Drones get all tangled up like flies on flypaper.

Realistically? Some form of a fuel air bomb/missile.

>>32630742
>What's the defense
Best defense is offence. Abuse this shit yourself.

nuke the cities and towns they came from
problem solved

>>32630742
The smaller, consumer drones can't really carry much weight, only a pound or two. They couldn't carry a big enough bomb to do shit, really.

Bigger drones are super expensive or illegal.

>>32630742
Lasers

>>32630979
GPS guided 9mm bullets

>>32630752
I would think drones would be cheaper.

>>32630752
This. And the defenses are the same as well.
>>32630756
>>32631039
What's the fucking difference?

>>32630766
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a24675/pentagon-autonomous-swarming-drones/

Nets.
If they're close enough together, electrifying ionized gas can short critical systems. Also nets.

Your alternative at distance is electronic warfare or traditional anti air guns. Drones don't go that high though, so "a guy with a shotgun" should be more than sufficient. Like trying to find an un-shot Amazon delivery drone in redneck country.

a CIWS that shoots birdshit
trap shooters

>>32631137
*birdshot
Shooting the drones with birdshit wouldn't be effective

>>32631137
>six overfed doves
>one Dillon Aero electric motor
>1200 SPM (shits per minute)
Pack it up, Haji. Uncle Sam wins again.

>>32631138
>Shooting the drones with birdshit wouldn't be effective
No, but it'd be funny.

>>32630742
Vepr-12, a spotter, and a few beers

Honestly would be a good time.

What I consider to be one one my favorite GTASA missions, along with the onw where you fly the RC Plane with the nose-mounted MG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN6k0pAmyvM

>>32630742
Net Launcher, Emp, Jamming, traditional SPAAG, Air Cannon, 40mm CWIS based off Bofors.

>>32630742
Bird shot.

>>32630742
>>32631673
All of these.

Future armies will need to consider defense against missiles and all sorts of objects that will be smaller, smarter, coming in more diverse forms and equipped with a variety of tactics and countermeasures.

>>32631137
>a CIWS that shoots birdshit
I'm imagining this right now

>>32630929
The term is "barrage balloons".

Miniaturized tank APS mounted to soldiers backs

>>32630742
Directed high powered radio waves, much like those found in fighter jets, should do the trick.

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>>32630742
Pic related

>>32630742
How much you wanna bet that drones will soon need "registration " and that soon after the first terror attack with a drone they will need background checks n shit?

>>32631051

Small drones are cheaper because they are slow, short range and light.
This make the propulsion very cheap.

Of course, it's a trade off that can be a problem on some missions.
Ground defense that is powerless against a missile suddently become much more potent.
And the short range means you have to deploy from closer to the enemy.
All while the actual payload will also be smaller than the one a missile is carrying.

They are much more polyvalent than a missile but also much more vulnerable.

The "cheap" way to counter them would be for infantry to shoot them down using small arms saturation fire.

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>>32630742
Will there be a protest drone at Trump's inauguration?

My guess is yes. It will buzz around and cause a slight ruckus, along the lines of the penis copter a few years back.

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Field Radar, jamming and possibly acoustic detection coupled with imaging+tracking guided small missiles up to individual soldier. voila. Really, there's no small, dangerous gimmick you can think of defense companies won't spend R&D on to sell to armies for big bucks.

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>>32632226
This isn't mine, but from some other drone thread


> be Army grunt in 2027
> deploy to Nigeria fighting Chinese-backed insurgents for the oil fields
> Chink drone swarms are some scary shit, but the DoD has promised us a secret weapon
> we put boots on the ground and up walks our anti-drone gunner
> his name is Nigel, 45 years old, upper crust East Coast type
> says he left "The Vineyard" or whatever to help troops as a tax shelter
> motherfucker isn't even wearing kevlar... just a tweed cap, shooting jacket, riding boots and some weird plaid pants
> doesn't have a rifle, even... just an antique double barreled shotgun
> hump 10 klicks out in the bush and this fucker won't shut the fuck up about stock options and tax shelters and clam boils and shit
> what in the fuck have the brass done to us?
> and then we hear it.... a drone swarm coming right at us
> there must have been 50 of the fuckers and we know we're just fucked and all of a sudden, East Coast Rich Guy screams "PULL!!!!!!!"
> he takes a pull off his flask of scotch, stuffs it in his back pocket, throws up his shotgun and just goes to fucking work
> BOOM-BOOM *reload* BOOM-BOOM *reload* BOOM-BOOM *reload*
> drones are blowing up and falling out of the sky, guys are shitting themselves, it's all mass chaos except for this fucker just blasting away on his little shotgun
> all of a sudden, the last drone falls out of the air in pieces and this guy readjusts his shooting jacket, takes another little tipple off his flask and goes back to explaining Polo to us
> our faces when

>>32631051
>What's the fucking difference?
missiles pretty much only get one chance to succeed, while drones can do alot better

>>32630766
>Obligatory China stronk bait

Every thread

>>32630773
>>32630910
>>32631137
>>32631746
>>32632226
>>32632504
>What is APS

>>32630742
i will shit on them to death

>>32632265
How else are you going to protect soft targets?

Guns are obviously too widely spread and embedded in our culture, but drone control seems viable

Battlestar Galactica tier flak shield

>>32632265
Larger sizes already need registration witj the faa.

>>32630742
trained birds, that's what

>>32632376
the SS would not stand for that shit, thing wouldn't get off the ground

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>mfw France already started training hawks to attack drones

Terrorists are too stupid to learn to fly drones.
If anyone has any experience flying these shits they know that you need weeks of flight time just to stay in the air when there's a fucking gust of wind strong enough to make smoke drift slightly and leaves flutter, and to keep the flying turd steady... Fuck that.
Worry about the gub'mnt drones instead.

>>32632376
>implying DC isn't the most heavily controlled airspace in the entire world
Shit wouldn't get 15 feet off the ground.

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>>32632850
>Terrorists are too stupid to learn to fly drones.
t. someone who has never seen any new isis footage in years

>>32633097
Obama said isis is finished. Stop spreading lies.

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>>32630742
>What's the defense against a swarm of small drones armed with explosives?
Jammer.

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>>32630742
just watch scorpion episode 39 "adaptation" to find out what to do.

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>>32631137
>>32631138
Imagining this is fucking killing me, send help.

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>>32633162
>drone guides on jam
>uh-oh
Will slavs ever learn after 1982?

>>32633824
Brilliant!

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>>32630742

Airburst munitions. I can't imagine the props handling shockwaves very well.

>>32630742
Spark gap transmitter

>>32630742
the small ones have a very limited time of flight = short flight range
also limited payload capacity