05-31-2024, 08:54 PM
(05-31-2024, 06:47 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: [ -> ](05-31-2024, 10:28 AM)snarkyguy_he_him_his Wrote: [ -> ]Mini guns with advanced radar have no problem with drones.
Hard to miss when you can throw 100 bullets a second at a target
Close-In Weapons Systems on U.S. Navy ships shoot 30mm shells (flatulence of the gods, I call it), which I can guarantee cost more than a penny each. But cost is not the issue. They're a short-range weapon which, as Marty points out, have to be pre-positioned for effective field of fire. While a CIWS may be able to stop a few drones at a time, they would not be able to stop a drone swarm. It would be akin to trying to thwart a swarm of bees with a fly swatter.
I think I see the problem here.
I'm talking about the tiny drones not the plane sized drones.
I assume they'd fly a bunch of planes with huge cargo holds, I have no idea what the Chinese call theirs, and then the drones fly out for specific targets from there.
A normal minigun fires very cheap 7mm rounds, it's not a cannon that fires 20mm or above. And 100 rounds of those in one second will destroy them easily and quickly.