Anti-Drone Projectile Weapons
Discussions focus on the effectiveness of guns, railguns, bullets, and other kinetic projectiles versus missiles for intercepting drones, aircraft, missiles, and satellites, debating precision, range, and practicality.
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Shooting missiles at aircraft can be though.
I don't see the point. You can just use a bigger bomb to overcome the inaccuracy.
A rail gun? Wouldn't that only hit one narrow target?
Would this type of weapon be able to shoot satellites right out of the sky?
The gun is extremely precise, so precise that is useless: if you miss the first shell, all will be misses. They intentionally made it disperse the projectile to cover an area, not 1 square meter.
How about if instead of a machine gun it just explodes when it gets close? Looks like we're back to missiles.
Sure, tungsten rods also work. What I meant was something far less sophisticated - "we don't care what specifically is hit, as long as it impacts in the general area." See e.g. the Qassam missiles, or similarly, the North Korean space program (or "space program"?) and Japan.
Seems much more precisely targeted than rocket attacks.
Not if you attach a "grasshopper" to the projectile :)
at a distance close enough to hit the drone it's shrapnel and explosives could probably hit you. and you're sitting on a big tank of flammable material.it's like the dudes that throw their rifle at the drone 6 feet away, hit it, cause it explode... but they still take shrapnel to the head and neck anyway because it's only 6 feet away.plus what happens if you miss?and the ammo is big, heavy, and requires special tanks. non-starter of an idea.