What stops drones just killing everything and whoever has the most winning every battle? How are they being defeated? What limits their use? Why aren’t infantry utterly terrified going into battle when drones seem able to blow them up without warning, dropping bombs out of nowhere? Can they be detected being small and flying low? Do they do air-to-air combat?
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Consumer grade drones have been making a significant impact on the battlefield in the last year, and this is the first time they’ve really been put to use like that. Dropping bombs from them is one thing, but it’s just as deadly to use them to spot for traditional artillery, and that’s much harder to deal with.
Most drones are susceptible to their control signals being jammed, and they are detectable, but we’re talking about specialized equipment that’s not currently manufactured in the kind of volume you’d need to make the drones worthless.
One big issue is that many of the ways you might shoot down a drone will cost more to use than the drone itself cost. This is one of the reasons there’s new interest in laser weapon systems.
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