▲ | drewbug a day ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I used to feel this way until I learned about counter-UAS tech. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | kragen a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
That's wishful thinking. Flying drones aren't the only threat, or the main threat, and there isn't such a thing as "counter-UAS tech", only counter-yesterday's-UAS tech. Radio jamming was "counter-UAS tech" until the mass production of fiber-optic-controlled FPV drones starting five months ago, for example. You can still find vendors marketing it as such. 30 milligrams of high explosive is enough to open your daughter's skull, or, more relevantly, your commanding officer's daughter's skull, and there are a thousand ways to deliver it to her if she can be tracked: in pager batteries, crawling, swimming, floating, waiting for ambush, hitchhiking on migratory birds, hitchhiking on car undercarriages, in her Amazon Prime deliveries, falling from a hydrogen balloon in the mesosphere, and so on. And if 30mg is too much, 2mg of ricin on a mechanical ovipositor will do just as well. All of this is technically possible today without any new discoveries. At this point it's a straightforward systems development exercise. And you can be sure that there are bad people working for multiple different countries' spy agencies who know this; they don't need me to tell them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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