Re: Skynet is coming.
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:32 pm
The next iteration will be an air to air anti-drone model...
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ladajo wrote:The next iteration will be an air to air anti-drone model...
Diogenes wrote:The battlefield is about to become a very lethal place for human beings, regardless of which side they are on.ladajo wrote:The next iteration will be an air to air anti-drone model...
For example, an e-bomb could effectively neutralize:
•vehicle control systems
•targeting systems, on the ground and on missiles and bombs
•communications systems
•navigation systems
•long and short-range sensor systems
U.S. forces are also highly vulnerable to EMP attack, however. In recent years, the U.S. military has added sophisticated electronics to the full range of its arsenal. This electronic technology is largely built around consumer-grade semiconductor devices, which are highly sensitive to any power surge. More rudimentary vacuum tube technology would actually stand a better chance of surviving an e-bomb attack.
The United States most likely has EMP weapons in its arsenal, but it's not clear in what form. Much of the United States' EMP research has involved high power microwaves (HPMs). Reporters have widely speculated that they do exist and that such weapons could be used in a war with Iraq.
Most likely, the United States' HPM e-bombs aren't really bombs at all. They're probably more like super powerful microwave ovens that can generate a concentrated beam of microwave energy. One possibility is the HPM device would be mounted to a cruise missile, disrupting ground targets from above.
ladajo wrote:Given that the U.S. has conducted the most extensive weapons (all types) effectiveness testing in the history of humankind, do you think that nothing has been done with the knowledge gained?
EMP can be a scary monster for those who don't understand it, or prepare for it.
Boeing’s “CHAMP,” is short for Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project. It is a non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapon. CHAMP carries a small generator that emits microwaves to fry electronics with pinpoint accuracy. It targets not nations or cities but individual buildings, blacking out their electronics rather than blowing up physical targets (or people).
In 2012, Boeing representative was able to boast: “We hit every target we wanted to,” predicting further that “in the near future, this technology may be used to render an enemy’s electronic and data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive.” Three years later, that future has arrived. Air Force Research Laboratory commander Maj. Gen. Tom Masiello says CHAMP is “an operational system already in our tactical air force.”
Literally the same exact system the US has, probably not. But there were other links I came across that I didn't post indicating that the Russians (and others) had their versions of non-nuclear EMP generating technology as well. Doesn't seem as if it is that terribly difficult to generate a short range non-nuclear EMP pulse. It would seem likely that drones especially relatively small "swarmbot" type drones would be vulnerable to such technology.ladajo wrote:Sorry, forgot to mention that the US has many things the Russians do not.
ladajo wrote: What is really scary, is how good the U.S. is in linking it all together...
williatw wrote:Diogenes wrote:The battlefield is about to become a very lethal place for human beings, regardless of which side they are on.ladajo wrote:The next iteration will be an air to air anti-drone model...
What about counter-measures to the drones? Say non-nuclear emp pulse weapons:
williatw wrote:
The United States most likely has EMP weapons in its arsenal, but it's not clear in what form. Much of the United States' EMP research has involved high power microwaves (HPMs). Reporters have widely speculated that they do exist and that such weapons could be used in a war with Iraq.
Most likely, the United States' HPM e-bombs aren't really bombs at all. They're probably more like super powerful microwave ovens that can generate a concentrated beam of microwave energy. One possibility is the HPM device would be mounted to a cruise missile, disrupting ground targets from above.
If terrorists/insurgents got access to even fairly portable non-nuclear emp devices they could trigger them over a say typical urban battle field effectively neutralizing the drones as well as satellite link data receivers.
williatw wrote: Pretty much everything that the American "soldier of tomorrow" needs in his Iron man battle gear to be effective. The "insurgent/terrorists" with their circa 1980's third war type AK47's, grenades, IED's, etc., would probably be relatively unaffected.
Most importantly, lasers could be very cheap. Contemporary missile-defense systems, such as Israel’s Iron Dome or the United States’ GMD antiballistic missile system, are much more expensive than the missiles they are designed to shoot down, making them untenable were they to face mass attacks. The same problem exists at the tactical level when considering how to counter the future threat of weaponized drone swarms: basically large flocks of small, expendable drones designed to overwhelm enemy defenses. While antiaircraft missiles may cost hundreds of thousands of dollars—or millions for antiballistic missile interceptors—the energy consumed by a laser weapon might cost as little as a dollar. For systems hooked up to a power generator, the “ammunition supply” could be virtually unlimited.