Assuming it was armed...
What would they shoot it down with, exactly? The 20mm vulcan cannon? The 30mm autocannon? The gatling gun? Some poor matelot with the ship's SA80?
An amateur photographer has reportedly landed his £475 drone aboard the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy – without permission and completely unchallenged. The unnamed photographer gave an interview to local paper the Inverness Courier, detailing how he landed his drone aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth in spite of “ …
Guns vs racing drones at a shooting range - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq0oCM37oZA
It's funny watching the law enforcement guys bragging at the beginning about being so sure they're going to shoot down a drone, then they see how small & fast they are...
Best quote of the video is at the briefing from an FPV pilot: "I hope he's clear they have to shoot the drone not the pilot, that would be the easiest way to bring the drone down"
We have an "air freshener" spray at home. I weighed the active bit at about 100gm. A face-full is not much fun. It could be equipped with pepper spray with very little effort.
I don't know how big a drone needs to be to carry a 100g payload, but not very big, anyway. A bunch of drones so equipped could take out the deck watch pretty quick, prior to a boarding party.
If the next James Bond film uses this plot, I want a percentage!
What would they shoot it down with, exactly?
The US army is using Stinger missiles against UAVs. Good job they've got the budget because the cost is ~38k$ per shot.
The US army is using Stinger missiles against UAVs. Good job they've got the budget because the cost is ~38k$ per shot.
Cost aside, would Stinger or other MADPADs even be effective against a small drone? They are typically equipped with an IR or IR/UV seeker head; is the heat emission of a battery-powered motor or even a small internal-combustion engine really hign enough to get a lock?
"A mahoosive fly swat?"
Pictures Wile E. Coyote unpacking an Acme branded one...
It's just occurred to me that it's ages since I did any clay pigeon shooting.
A 12 bore shotgun would surely do the trick, but only at an uncomfortably short range if the drone is indeed armed.
is the heat emission of a battery-powered motor or even a small internal-combustion engine really hign enough to get a lock?
I don't know what a Stinger's fitted with and what its detection algorithm is, but IR cameras can easily discern a human body against cooler backgrounds. Electrical motors, never mind combustion engines, will be noticeably warmer.
I dunno about anyone else, but a quarter-of-a-million drones coming in in swarm would certainly put the shits up me...
The Perdix test swarm was only 103 drones, and the final "orbit" demonstration becomes even more disconcerting if you consider them either armed or programmable for kinetic strike...
> I dunno about anyone else, but a quarter-of-a-million drones coming in in swarm would certainly put the shits up me...
A quarter-million wasp-sized drones, linked to each other with software that knows how to swarm and armed with a 'sting' comprising a syringe of poison/sedative depending upon how nasty/nice you want to be, seems to me to be an inevitable future development in weaponry.
I think Dune was there first with the assassin wasp drone idea?
Try The Invincible by Stanislaw Lem. Originally published in 1964, it contains the idea of microscopic fighting machines controlled by a distributed AI and working in concert to defeat much more capable and nominally more intelligent opponents.
It still reads pretty well despite it age ...
Wasps as weapons (but no central control) is found in Ray Bradbury's story "Ylla" published in 1950. It was one of the Martian Chronicles collection. A Martian woman in a loveless marriage daydreams about the humans coming to explore Mars. When they arrive, her jealous husband kills them with a gun that fires wasps.
"ISIS have a proven track record in Syria of weaponizing DJI's Phantom [drone] and its professional platform the Matrice 100 to drop grenades on troops, so a drone flying over the aircraft carrier without permission, as opposed to alongside, should be considered a potential threat,"
I apologise to Douglas Adams for this, but it has to be said/paraphrased...
Mr Dent, do you know how much damage the Aircraft carrier would suffer if you dropped a grenade on it?...
For the uninitiated, or those that suffered the more recent movie...
Mr Dent, do you know how much damage the Aircraft carrier would suffer if you dropped a grenade on it?...
A fair bit, if this is a hafnium nuclear-isomer hand grenade. Of course, those are even more imaginary than the F-35Bs QE is supposed to eventually host ...
There are a few devices out there that can knock drones out of the sky, but most are in the experimental phase or just coming to commercialisation (my firm is one of those releasing a product). Still a long time before they become ubiquitous though as they are not exactly cheap units at the moment.
There are a few devices out there that can knock drones out of the sky, but most are in the experimental phase or just coming to commercialisation (my firm is one of those releasing a product). Still a long time before they become ubiquitous though as they are not exactly cheap units at the moment.
Only a lack of personnel on deck saved the drone.
I find it hard to believe that the vessel was unequipped with this type of anti-drone weapon. ☺
I expect they're due to be fitted with something a tad more powerful than cream pies.
let's see:
12 bore shotgun (as already stated by others)
largish fly swatter
or if you just INSIST on something techy: directional RF jammer and/or MASER