[RocktimusPryme]

I work in defense. Around here a current hot button is Counter UAS. Not big GA Predators, but more like Amazon quad copters that you can strap a little plastique to and perform a little bit of terror with. Its kinda the new form of the IEDs that we were all so afraid of when we first went back to the middle east in the early 2000s.

I asked a friend who works on that topic why we dont just fire an EMP blast at them. He said that everyone always says that, but that it actually violates some international arms treaty or something. I cant quote the exact law or what its from. Essentially its firing a hot weapon at a foreign nation. So for anyone who has ever seen Charlie Wilson's War, the line "Thats how a cold war becomes a hot war real quick. Thats something you want to keep a close eye on." comes to mind

Moral of the story being that it isnt really that big of a threat because in the world of mutually assured destruction era your big players mostly avoid firing that hot weapon at each other. Not that its a non factor, but so is a nuclear bomb and we just dont think about it overly much because everyone wants to avoid what would come next.

Funny story, the other thing people always say is "Well just give me a shotgun and ill knock that thing out of the sky for you". So we actually tried that, we put a bunch of former soldiers on a boat at the lake here and flew a bunch of small UAVs around and had them take their shot at robot trap shooting. Lets just say that their success rate was not very high at shooting those things down.

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Originally Posted by RocktimusPryme

Funny story, the other thing people always say is "Well just give me a shotgun and ill knock that thing out of the sky for you". So we actually tried that, we put a bunch of former soldiers on a boat at the lake here and flew a bunch of small UAVs around and had them take their shot at robot trap shooting. Lets just say that their success rate was not very high at shooting those things down.

They need to practice up with full auto 22LR And with tracers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_PuEc2OPbM

Clay