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Few points on lasers and swarms:
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Few points on lasers and swarms:
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* Existing laser units are in high kW or even low MW range - many (tens of) magnitudes higher cost than drone unit.
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* Existing laser units are in high kW or even low MW range - many (tens of) magnitudes higher cost than drone unit.
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* Cost and energy requirements make lasers single or sparse point defense (think Annihilator vs Fleas in Z-k).
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* Cost and energy requirements make lasers single or sparse point defense (think Annihilator vs Fleas in Z-k).
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* Even extremely high power lasers have kill time in 5..10 seconds despite having low cost per shot.
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* Even extremely high power lasers have kill time in 5..10 seconds despite having low cost per shot.
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* It is easy to disable single point defense with for example 5% of swarm units (think roaches - they are not super threat to all things in Z-k because they cost more than 1/10000 Annihilator price, plus static defense is near instant and 99.999 accurate against them).
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* It is easy to disable single point defense with for example 5% of swarm units (think roaches - they are not super threat to all things in Z-k because they cost more than 1/10000 Annihilator price, plus static defense is near instant and 99.999 accurate against them).
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* Swarm delivery - it can happen in various cost effective ways, fighter jet with dropper is just one example.
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* Swarm delivery - it can happen in various cost effective ways, fighter jet with dropper is just one example.
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* Unit cost in swarm is already below thousand USD, now think of cutting edge technology of pressing wood pulp to thin sheets and forming planing structures from them...
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http://www.recode.net/2017/1/12/14245816/disposable-drones-paper-darpa-save-your-life-otherlab
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Most of you are higher ELO here than me here, I fully expect someone to have interesting new view angle on the problem :).
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The importance of line move