It’s funny that they haven’t already. I mean it’s about “national security.” This threat has been looming for 10 maybe 15 years now
Development in the space is happening at a breakneck pace. We're hiring pretty aggressively, if this sort of thing seems interesting, check it out!
I suspect these turrets are fine with a couple of drones, but what if it's 5000? What if they're autonomous so that they can fly at 1/2 a metre?
With autonomy and something to allow long-distance flight it actually challenges the whole capable-airplane paradigm. People aren't thinking like this at all.
They aren't thinking real saturation, i.e. let's say, an attack with 10000 modernized V-1s, either. I believe that 10,000 modernized V-1s could cost as little as 50 million USD. So less than a single F-35, which has no chance of even reaching more than a couple during such a saturation attack.
> Building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones. We need sharp, hands-on engineers:
(And not the same company already mentioned here.)
Once the grid goes dark we're going to suddenly find out that black start of an entire electrical grid is a very difficult thing to do.
Why don’t you have hunter drones targeting any potential drone coming in?
Very soon the most challenging part of anti-drone defence is going to be detection since fiber-guided drones can already fly tens of kilometers at low altitudes where they’ll be virtually undetectable with radar. You can literally fly them just above ground if necessary.
How Ukraine’s killer drones are beating Russian jamming
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44168658
Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia
fisherjeff•8mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28262841