Submission + - Ask Slashdot: What's the best way to take out a drone? (cnn.com) 1
shanen writes: Trying to make lemonade here, though I fear we may be on the verge of a fresh conflagration in the Middle East... I don't think international assassination is a viable or sustainable substitute for diplomacy. It might feel nice, but one country's terrorist is too often another country's national hero. The trick of turning one into the other almost never works... And even Trump wants to walk around his golf courses without worrying about every passing drone. (I also predict Kim Jong-Un is going to be rather less visible going forwards.)
So... The best outcome I can imagine is if the response is limited to ending drone warfare. That would be bad in some ways, mostly because increasingly unrestricted drone warfare has been largely advantageous for America (so far), but I think it's the least bad outcome I can imagine here. Maybe you can see a better glide path for the future?
Which leads to the topical question: What's the best way to take out a drone? And who is most likely to exploit those market opportunities? If China is just in it for the money, then I think they could make a bundle by selling some anti-drone system, though I think they'd have to disguise it or multi-purpose it in some ways. You know, just to confuse the international response (as if Trump was capable of building an international coalition to oppose anti-drone warfare).
So... The best outcome I can imagine is if the response is limited to ending drone warfare. That would be bad in some ways, mostly because increasingly unrestricted drone warfare has been largely advantageous for America (so far), but I think it's the least bad outcome I can imagine here. Maybe you can see a better glide path for the future?
Which leads to the topical question: What's the best way to take out a drone? And who is most likely to exploit those market opportunities? If China is just in it for the money, then I think they could make a bundle by selling some anti-drone system, though I think they'd have to disguise it or multi-purpose it in some ways. You know, just to confuse the international response (as if Trump was capable of building an international coalition to oppose anti-drone warfare).
