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[quote]I don't see how UGV's would be any different from "weird infantry" or "robot tank" in this regard, so for them the point about "just shoot them in face with your existing gun" holds well. I think they're much less weird than swarmer UAV's anyway.[/quote]
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[quote]I don't see how UGV's would be any different from "weird infantry" or "robot tank" in this regard, so for them the point about "just shoot them in face with your existing gun" holds well. I think they're much less weird than swarmer UAV's anyway.[/quote]
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My mistake, these drones are actually flying. They're also purely for surveillance and are basically a battery and camera with wings. Considering that they can be dropped in the thousands though, a laser would need probably at least 10 seconds per drone and would have no chance of shooting them all down before they completed their mission.
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My mistake, these drones are actually flying. They're also purely for surveillance and are basically a battery and camera with wings. Considering that they can be dropped in the thousands though, a laser would need probably at least 10 seconds per drone and would have no chance of shooting them all down before they completed their mission.
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The lasers are also shown being used against mortar fire, but the number of incoming shells they can deal with is not likely to be very high.
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The lasers are also shown being used against mortar fire, but the number of incoming shells they can deal with is not likely to be very high.
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Also the way the lasers disabled the regular UAVs was not to 'shoot them in the face' but to cut through a very specific part of the drone causing it to lose control and crash. The main reason that works well is simply that the structure connecting the tail to the UAV is fairly thin and thus easy to destroy with a laser. Lasers are also more effective vs aircraft because the motion of the aircraft naturally blows away the metal vapor which would otherwise provide shielding against the laser and prevent it from ablating more material effectively.
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Also the way the lasers disabled the regular UAVs was not to 'shoot them in the face' but to cut through a very specific part of the drone causing it to lose control and crash. The main reason that works well is simply that the structure connecting the tail to the UAV is fairly thin and thus easy to destroy with a laser. Lasers are also more effective vs aircraft because the motion of the aircraft naturally blows away the metal vapor which would otherwise provide shielding against the laser and prevent it from ablating more material effectively.
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EDIT: Also line move in this case is only being used to have the drones sweep an area and not particularly as a tactical maneuver.
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The importance of line move