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How high do they fly, how fast? What's the best anti-drone weapon? Will a jump in anti-drone tech make them suddenly obsolete? It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
There's no technical reason they can't meet those design specifications and there's good operational reasons for the Air Force, etc., to issue them. So I expect a "jump" in capability within the next 4 years. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
With the US B-52 fleet of heavy bombers becoming overworked and tired I that "somewhere" is "here." She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Flight speed is anywhere from "loiter" to over Mach 5.
A reliable anti-drone weapon system hasn't been specified, designed, tested, and deployed.
Given the low cost of drones, to purchase and to operate, versus other "force projection" weapon systems I doubt they will become obsolete in our lifetime. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Mach 5 is conservatively 6000km/h or 3750mph. res humà m'és aliè
Also the reaction times and experience of a human pilot are (1) bad compared to cybernetic decision speed and (2) 1:1, with a cybernetic, expert system, in control every "pilot" would have the ability and experience of a Top-Gun pilot instructor. No more steep learning curve for new pilots: the operator hits the "evade" or "attack" button and Bob's your uncle.
Given the fuel requirements for Mach 5+ I think that would be the top speed, used during transition from base to patrol/combat area. In those areas "loiter" would be the normal flight speed, only going higher during actual combat, as a predictive guess. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
And without the need to maintain a pilot awake in the cockpit, nothing prevents, say, a 30 hours flight from US to anywhere in the world at best fuel economy speed... Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
So rather then shooting down hostile drones, seize them in midair and send them back. Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
Still, the fact that they didn't slap a standard commercial-grade crypto the things boggles the mind.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
(Naturally you'll have to know assembler language to do this ... which you young uns generally don't :-p)
(lol) She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Absolute security is a Very Hard Problem. Real security is always an affordable trade-off between absolute security and cash.
And didja know that some IBM (and likely other) mainframes include built-in encryption hardware?
There's all kinds of games you can play with the software: data binary word length, binary word placement, algorithm cycling, synch/desynch on the transmissions, burst/stream transmissions, wide band/narrow band, etc. etc. etc.
I wouldn't trust any generally available encryption programs. If they are a usual part of the IBM software then they can be cracked if enough resources are thrown at the problem.
Despite everything, above, One Time Pads are the only way to go if you want to ensure security. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Possible, in theory, but if the other guys can pull that stunt then your organisation is either so hopelessly compromised or crushingly incompetent that somebody stealing your bombs mid-flight is not the greatest of your concerns.
Georgia operates 10 year old Hermes 450 drones
with a primary mission of reconnaissance, surveillance and communications relay
The craft has an 18,000 foot ceiling and has a 52 horsepower Wankel, internal combustion, engine.
Hardly front-line, high-tech, equipment. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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