Forget the military threat, imagine the chaos a person could cause with a few thousand dollars worth of shape charge drones if they wanted to, for example, disable a national power grid. Large substation transformers have lead times measured in years. It would cost a few hundred bucks to destroy one. I imagine a guy in a box truck doing a tour of the US, dropping a shape charge drone or two with cellular data connections outside 30 or 40 major substations and activating them all at once.<p>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.
Adding on to the photos in the article, here are the drones stacked and then staged in the warehouse pre-attack: <a href="https://t.me/RBC_ua_news/145230" rel="nofollow">https://t.me/RBC_ua_news/145230</a>
It’s only a matter of time before governments with the money and the sense adopt automated anti drone radar/turrets.<p>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
Sounds like a usecase for world strongest handheld laser<p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=UBVlL0FNbSE" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=UBVlL0FNbSE</a>
Lots of discussion:<p><i>How Ukraine’s killer drones are beating Russian jamming</i><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44168658">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44168658</a><p><i>Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia</i><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150789">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44150789</a>