The problem with Epirus’s CUAS jamming panel, even though it works, is that the US Army (and NATO) don’t use the Stryker MSL AFV chassis and thus Epirus is mounted on a less mobile trailer.
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@Uncle-Heavy If that is the unit price, $100 million, then it is definitely not cheap!
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I wonder if a flamethrower spraying fuel all over a swarm might be worth researching? I mean, the tech is old and cheap. You don’t want them falling on your vehicle but I think you could spray quite a few quickly. Anyway, that’s my thought.
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Have the cope cages give off an outwardly-directed EMP pulse to knock the drones down or misdirect them. Like chaff used by aircraft.
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Why are we not destroying the factories that make these things, and killing the people that invent them?
Edit: Please pardon my comment. This entire subject area makes me furious. I am returning to my little plastic tanks and trucks and stuff.
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Well, because WWIII is not in our best interests. Nobody is prepared to fight Iran or NK or Russia in a big war.
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Really? I spent my whole adult life preparing for any three of those scenarios. I’m still ready. Unlike 23% of America’s youth.
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Individual warriors? Sure. But America or NATO as a whole? No, because NK is crazy enough to toss nukes, Iran is batfeces crazy and a bigger target than Afghanistan (which we never did defeat) and Russia has nukes too. The obesity of American youth (among other issues) isn’t what’s stopping us from going after the current Axis of Evil.
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I have a daughter going to college very close to a potential target by a hostile force; i.e., the CDC in Atlanta, not to mention the airport which a a MAJOR traffic hub through the region and whose destruction would greatly disrupt the movement of resources through the region. I am hoping to delay things until she is done as we seem to be on the good side of the fallout zone where we live according to the simulators.
Not so much my mother-in-law but we’ll deal with that at another time.
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I’m in Albuquerque. 40% of our nuclear arsenal is here. Plus Sandia Lab. And Los Alamos is just up the road. Maybe I will see a bright flash. But that might be better than the aftermath. Besides, I’m getting old. Not really interested in all that prepper crap.
Ken
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As far as drone threats, I think the current direction of defense is jamming the drone’s signal. I think (and they are probably already thinking this way) is some sort of wild weasel attack. Use a missile fired from orbiting aircraft to ride the drone’s signal back to it’s source. Take out the operator and their buddies too.
Edro
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Ukraine has been developing new drone technologies to counter Russia’s electronic warfare, including drones that can fly without GPS and AI-assisted drones that can operate independently:
- Drones without GPS
Ukraine’s special forces have developed drones that can fly and hit targets without GPS or operator input, making them resistant to Russian jamming.
- AI-assisted drones
These drones can lock onto a target and then operate independently, making them immune to electronic warfare interference. Once the AI takes over, the drone can cut off its radio signal and make its own decisions.
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The Russians have developed and flew drones that fly trailing a fiber optic cable for control. The fiber optic prevents jamming since it is wired (tethered) controlled.
No mention was made on leaving fiber optics strewn all over the battlefield though.
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TOW wires
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