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![]() "Chad Irby" wrote "Paul J. Adam" wrote: UAVs are going to be really tough gun targets: just look at the size of them. Aircraft guns aren't a good option, if only because you're going to need so many rounds per target. There are a lot of "plane sized" UAVs, and if you think anaircraft the size of a Predator is a hard gun target, well, you need to compare it to how hard it is to hit with a cheap missile (low IR signature, low radar signature). The "little bitty" UAVs out there are in the "fly past really quick and turbulence does the job" category... There really aren't "a lot" of large UAVs. They (and their payloads) are quite expensive and the number look limited for the foreseeable future. The Little Bitty UAVs on the other hand look to be ubiquitous. Turbulence might do the job or maybe not. These aren't ultralights with nil control authority. If they're flying low enough to prevent recovery, then the fighter doing the buzz pass is in fair danger of CFIT, especially in combat. |
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