Don’t worry, they fully intend to use drones to wipe out any resistance. I always wondered when we’d live in the terror of the skies like they have in the middle east for two decades now.
Kind of hard to use a handgun or shotgun to deal with a Reaper drone that’s nailing you from a mile away.
I think drone warfare so far has shown that one of the advantages of drones, for a weapon, is their ability to be produced cheapy, en masse, and with a relatively limited manufacturing infrastructure. Assuming you have the computer parts anyway, which are abundant in today’s society. One of the implications of that, I think, is that in future asymmetric or civil wars and the like, they’re not going to be like fighter jets or tanks, where one side will have them and the other must improvise countermeasures. They’re going to be like guns and explosives, where both sides are going to have access to at least some degree.
I wonder how effective at 308 round is to a drone, even just putting a sizable hole in the wing. And that’s assuming it’s causing at an altitude that’s within range.
Better than 308, yes. But still, shooting at something moving that fast, at that range, straight into the air, don’t expect to hit anything except the neighborhood kids when the bullet comes back down.
Don’t worry, they fully intend to use drones to wipe out any resistance. I always wondered when we’d live in the terror of the skies like they have in the middle east for two decades now.
Kind of hard to use a handgun or shotgun to deal with a Reaper drone that’s nailing you from a mile away.
I think drone warfare so far has shown that one of the advantages of drones, for a weapon, is their ability to be produced cheapy, en masse, and with a relatively limited manufacturing infrastructure. Assuming you have the computer parts anyway, which are abundant in today’s society. One of the implications of that, I think, is that in future asymmetric or civil wars and the like, they’re not going to be like fighter jets or tanks, where one side will have them and the other must improvise countermeasures. They’re going to be like guns and explosives, where both sides are going to have access to at least some degree.
I wonder how effective at 308 round is to a drone, even just putting a sizable hole in the wing. And that’s assuming it’s causing at an altitude that’s within range.
Seems like there’s better ways:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident
Iranian here, it is was revealed that it was sheer luck and an IRGC commander once said that “God sent it for us.”
Huh, thanks for the perspective!
308 has horrible ballistics.
.30-06 any better?
Better than 308, yes. But still, shooting at something moving that fast, at that range, straight into the air, don’t expect to hit anything except the neighborhood kids when the bullet comes back down.