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>>32652217
They seem to want to use them for low-altitude, high-detail ISR. Facial recognition and shit.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-autonomous-drones-set-to-revolutionize-military-technology/

Looking at them swarm.

They could do a ton of things, all for a short amount of time. Recon, self-repairing communications, etc.

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>>32652217
they do sound pretty fucking scary

>chalk one up for the engineers

>>32652903
imagine if they had small explosive charges, there would be what would basically dozens of controllable frag grenades that could seek out individual targets with high accuracy. probably would be expensive but holy fuck that sounds scary

I watched that video of the f18 deploying them. Could you use them as an active missile defense? Like, when a SAM is launched at you deploy the drones, maneuver so that they stay between you and the missile, and then the explosive charges on the drones detonate when they hit/near the SAM?

Or are they just too small and slow for something like that?

the year is 2025
>Katherine Feinstein elected president
>Bans all fire arms
>Bans all toys that look like firearms
>Drones seek out anything resembling a firearm and explode.
And that is how we lost the war.

>>32653055
>small explosive charges
Bruh. 1. There's nothing there to fragment due to the majority of the drone being ABS and/or fiberglass, meaning you'd have to rely on the overpressure wave of the blast for lethality 2. These drones are the size of a steering wheel, they'd have a working payload of a couple ounces at most. 3. A couple ounces of even the most violent of primary explosives does not create enough of an overpressure wave to do anything more than disorient unless it's literally enclosed in flesh (such as holding a blasting cap in a closed fist). This means they'd be ineffective as antipersonnel and utterly useless against even unarmored civilian vehicles.

Depends on what resources the drone builders have.

Imagine how CAS could change by sending out a drone swarm that's networked to identify FLIR hotspots and transmit it to the FOB.

Then air support drops a cluster bomb that drops hundreds of guided munitions on top of every FLIR hotspot flagged as a hostile.

It'd be scary as FUGGGG

I thought the BRRRT was beastly. The scream of a hundred drones followed by the whistling of a hundred fin stabilized cluster bombs and the total destruction of every heat signature in a radius of several miles...


THAT is scary as fuck.

>>32653120
Not the one you reply to, but I too think there's a potential in putting those fuckers to cripple infantry.
Even a small charge can cause some damage on impact - added the fact that they can be really cheap if mass produced - you'd just send several hundreds of them on hunt & destroy missions - they would paralyze the enemy.
We already have drones that fly inside a protective cage, so they could freely fly in forests or cities, hunting, gathering intelligence.

Imagine you're a trooper in the field and those fuckers start flying around you in swarms.

You'll never know, if it isn't just calling a mortar strike on your head, or just checking you, or about to blow in your face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s96Q2GXgoeE

>>32653181
this anon gets it.

The next obvious step will be your own drone swarms that fight their drone swarms.

MORTAL SWARMFARE.

1. low power distributed ECM is very very powerful

2. you can stick radar reflectors on them and dump them on enemy defence

>>32653209
ratnick has like 90% frag protection, the tiny payload dumped by these drones isn't going to amount to much

>>32653120
>>>32653055
>>small explosive charges
>Bruh. 1. There's nothing there to fragment due to the majority of the drone being ABS and/or fiberglass, meaning you'd have to rely on the overpressure wave of the blast for lethality 2. These drones are the size of a steering wheel, they'd have a working payload of a couple ounces at most. 3. A couple ounces of even the most violent of primary explosives does not create enough of an overpressure wave to do anything more than disorient unless it's literally enclosed in flesh (such as holding a blasting cap in a closed fist). This means they'd be ineffective as antipersonnel and utterly useless against even unarmored civilian vehicles.

....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25_mm_grenade

Has a kill radius of 20 feet.

Weighs 6.5 ounces.

Costs less than 50 bucks.

ONE drone with one of these strapped onto it would end most MOUT fights in less than a minute. Fly the drone to the bad guys in their ambush point, get inside their cover with them, boom.

If they start carrying auto shotguns to try and stop the drones, you rifle them to death, then send another drone.

Forget the drone swarm. Give foot patrols half a dozen of these sort of things.

those remind me of half-life 2 manhacks

>>32653120
So you make it a small EFP. Now you have drones that can fire a slug of molten copper through the top of your helmet.

Tell me that won't fuck with your mind.

>>32653509
LIGHT UP THE NIGHT

>>32653619
>incoming drone
>take cover
>it tips, stalls, and then explodes 30ft out from our toon
>captain goes down with a sizzling acrid-smelling hole in his goggles and a singed bulge on the back of his helmet cover
>now you know what the boys were talking about when they mentioned getting full rifle protection on their faceplates

>>32653619
kind of silly, you might as well hellfire everyone by your logic (cost to attack one soldier, out of hundreds of thousands), and everyone is developing anti drone spaags suited for these kinds of cheap disposable drones; with airbust rounds or lasers

I can imagine even a recent-production SAM radar installation being confused as fuck with a swarm of those things surrounding it.

>>32653760
just turn on your bird filter
right now, without software every military and civillian radar would be picking up hundreds of thousands of birds

you know how they measure the wind?
literally radar ranging leaves and shit being blown around

>>32653763
>Aero 224, please divert thirty degrees to port, we have an incoming swarm of spiders on migration

>>32653763
Ah hah, neat. Would the bird filter be able to keep up with that kind of density? I mean, that's a lot of emission shadows being cast.

>>32653518
>ratnick
Oh, vatnik.. :)

>>32652217
The sound is an upgrade. The drones flying in Iraq sound like goddamn lawn mowers.

Half-life 2 had the right idea - muther fucking manhack swarms. Imagine being chased by a dozen small drones, armed with thin, spinning razor sharp blades. Sure you can seek cover, but then they transmit your coordinates to the nearest fire support unit. And boom goes your cover or your car. Or just 2 of the 12 drones are bigger and armed with breaching explosives. Where the cutters can't find a patho, they make one.

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>>32653590
>Forget the drone swarm. Give foot patrols half a dozen of these sort of things.
This. Swarms are a meme.

>>32654018
>we tau auxiliaries nao

>>32653590
>Costs less than 50 bucks.
So what, $30? So you have an $830 grenade?

>>32653619
You could probably load 6 EFPs per drone, they aren't large or heavy (if were talking about penetrating body armor.

Servos to aim them, that will add a bit of weight, accuracy is the largets problem. Which, is why you have 6 per drone and 100 drones

>100 drones flying fast and slow
>Tiny EFPs pepper everything that moves
>drones are recovered and refit for a total of like 250 dollars
>repeat

Flak is coming back boys, slow moving unarmored aircraft can get fucked.

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>>32653071
You got it all wrong, use these fuckers to bait missiles from a sam. Rinse and repeat until out of missiles.

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>>32653055
No. Use them as kinetic energy weapons. Launch from high up, have steel/hardened plastic noses, engage engines and have a swarm go straight down on an enemy position, kill everything. Alternatively, make a beefier version to fly a HEAT warhead on top of tanks like javelins.
>hundreds or thousands of these little fuckers raining down on enemy troops, forcing them to find cover or die.
>hundreds of little HEAT warheads the size of an RPG raining down on a tank, fucking everything up inside of it.

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>>32655406
set them up with a single shot slambang 20mm shell.

>>32653590
>has a payload of at most a couple ounces
>here let me strap this 6.5oz grenade to it, that's only literally more than triple what "a couple" means

And bullshit on the 20ft kill radius, 40mm HEDP usually won't even injure people at that distance and it carries a hell of a lot more explosive filler *and* frag material than the 25mm HEDP.

>>32653619
Assuming you could get it to accurately aim one, that would indeed be scary.

>>32655362
I was under the impression that it isn't possible to effectively mimic an airplane against a modern air defense system with such a small drone, as it is too slow and its payload is too small.

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>tfw fucking COD Black Ops 2 predicted the use of drone swarms