Early mornin’ Thinktank times

BCE posted this last night, and I always catch up in zero dark.  

Some thoughts.    MOST ALL drones in use that I have seen are rotary winged,   Blades no spinny, droney no fly.  

That thought was the one behind the current anti-drone ammo being sold.   A shotgun shell that holds a weighted net to be fired at the drone: the net binds the wings and droney becomes dead weight.

and as fragile as those blades are,,,,   Not that they are fragile, but they must be made thin, and lite, due to the nature of the beast, and they are spinning at incredible speeds.   They shred fairly easily when they come into contact with other fixed objects.   That was the basis behind the Ukes using a drone with a ‘stick’ to down some of the russian fixed wing drones.   Little fuzzy drone with a stick follows behind fixed wing drone and shoves that stick into the prop: prop comes apart at speed and now fixed wing is a glider with high ratio sink path.

Trying to think outside the box here.  Lots of ECM stuff in comments over at BCE’s, but I much prefer more direct kinetic or mechanical solutions.  Much less that can go wrong, easier to train on, etc etc etc.    Think AK47 solutions.   does the job and built so a tank could drive over it and it still work.

That the battle space has taken to tech was unavoidable.  That it has evolved so quickly,,,, Hell, we HAVE been here before.   Back in WW1,,, planes.    Planes totally changed the battle space and tactics and the OldGuard was caught flat footed.  

Time doesn’t repeat, but she sure does rhyme, no?

I thnk what bothers me the most about this trend, is how American MIC manages to overbuild EVERYTHING.   Yeah, the MIC was the first to use RPV in war.   and the damned things were built like fullsized warbirds with electronic packages on them that required GROUND CREWS.    The stuff the Ukes have been using is off the shelf CIvvy designed TOYS and they have a ground crew of ONE,,, with a portable control unit that can hide faster than a feral cat.   The Russians are keeping pace apparently.   Seeing how that FOG-D is from their side   (and Russia has been leading the charge in ECM-CECM for over a decade now.   THEY should know the best counter to ECM is a direct physical line.)

Sadly, I need to trundle my arse to the shop for a day of J.O.B. and chasing the elusive FRN’s.    More thoughts on this later.   (and if you want to further see whats capable, Look at the  book I have listed in the sidebar.    Its a bit dated now (only a couple years, but thats decades in the FPV world.) but still holds some clues as to what we are up against.  

Live, learn, laugh, and load,,, more later