Since you don’t want to use projectiles in most cases because of the risk to people on the ground, you can use other methods. The three preferred methods are an anti drone laser, an anti drone EM weapon and a kamikazi drone. We have all three available. We have small kamikazi drones and large kamikazi drones. The latter ones can handle any speed drone. Check out Anduril Roadrunner.
You still don't get away from the liability and danger problems of a stricken drone crashing on houses, vehicles, or people. That doesn't go away by invoking fancy technology.
That is true. You can compare the drone coordinates to what is on the ground. There is software for that, but not that hard to do manually. And the odds of actually hitting a person is incredibly low.
And from where do you get "drone coordinates"? That normally takes a range measurement and azimuth and elevation angle measurements. Radars do that automatically. Not many of us have anti-aircraft radars in our pockets. How significant are the measurement errors?
These calculations are hard enough to do manually, that anti-aircraft guns were fitted with radar trackers when they were first available. Now, radar is indispensable.
So, you are willing to bet someone else's life on luck? Since you seem so comfortable with the notion of "low odds," why don't you give us all a number to go by, and tell us at what level the odds are no longer "low"?
RADA radar is made for this job. I actually ghost wrote a book on counter drone operations. I designed a protection plan for the Saudis vs the Houthis and Iranians.
I am doing it from memory, but it is generally about 1 in 10,000. In a city, it is about 1 in 500 because it is so light. Jumping out of a fighter over a city is about 1 in 100.
Since you don’t want to use projectiles in most cases because of the risk to people on the ground, you can use other methods. The three preferred methods are an anti drone laser, an anti drone EM weapon and a kamikazi drone. We have all three available. We have small kamikazi drones and large kamikazi drones. The latter ones can handle any speed drone. Check out Anduril Roadrunner.
You still don't get away from the liability and danger problems of a stricken drone crashing on houses, vehicles, or people. That doesn't go away by invoking fancy technology.
That is true. You can compare the drone coordinates to what is on the ground. There is software for that, but not that hard to do manually. And the odds of actually hitting a person is incredibly low.
And from where do you get "drone coordinates"? That normally takes a range measurement and azimuth and elevation angle measurements. Radars do that automatically. Not many of us have anti-aircraft radars in our pockets. How significant are the measurement errors?
These calculations are hard enough to do manually, that anti-aircraft guns were fitted with radar trackers when they were first available. Now, radar is indispensable.
So, you are willing to bet someone else's life on luck? Since you seem so comfortable with the notion of "low odds," why don't you give us all a number to go by, and tell us at what level the odds are no longer "low"?
RADA radar is made for this job. I actually ghost wrote a book on counter drone operations. I designed a protection plan for the Saudis vs the Houthis and Iranians.
I am doing it from memory, but it is generally about 1 in 10,000. In a city, it is about 1 in 500 because it is so light. Jumping out of a fighter over a city is about 1 in 100.