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Moritz Wünsch

schrieb:

The responses so far all point to several things:

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3. It is always likely to prove difficult to spot a small, stealthy UAV
by any means - visual, IR or radar. Furthermore, existing gun/missile
systems are not designed to engage such targets and may have great
difficulty in doing so.

What about using lidar?
In bad weather the drone/UAV might be degraded as well as your lidar-system.

And for defence/shooting them down maybe something like THEL could be
used, and I believe the range of THEL being superior to that of most gun
systems.

4. The UAV controlling station can be mobile and will only need to send
occasional very brief signals - they will require a lot of effort to
locate and kill.

Basically it comes down to difficulties and probabilities. UAVs exist,
now, which are extremely difficult to detect and can carry the
necessary targeting equipment. They are very cheap by military
standards. Laser-homing munitions exist, now, which are cheap and can
home in on such signals. The means of dealing with such a threat does
not appear to exist at present. I have no doubt that people are working
on it, and that solutions will be found (perhaps along the lines that
some have suggested here), but they are likely to require a lot of cost
to implement and will always face the basic problem - the UAV
controllers only need to succeed once, the warship has to succeed every
time.

Tony Williams
Military gun and ammunition website: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk