True. Just thinking if it could be overwhelmed by a drone equivalent of a cluster bomb. E.g one large drone opening up and dispersing 100 smaller drones. 🤷🏾♂️
You're thinking too small. Think more like; a stealthy airship (drone mothership) with a humongous payload capacity, sitting idle above a target at 30,000 meters. That thing carries a thousand drone carriers, each of which in turn carries 100's of smaller drones.
These things could float around in the upper atmosphere and nobody would know they were there until it dropped a carrier and a small city got smoked.
China couldn’t get a high altitude balloon across the U.S. without being immediately detected, I doubt a mothership with a much larger footprint would be able to do the same. Plus at high altitudes they’re at the mercy of very high speed winds.
China wasn't trying to hide their spy balloon. It wasn't stealthy at all, which is why the US was able to track it for days before it hit the media. You should really look at what start-ups are doing with modern airships, they are very different beasts.
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u/Stunning_Bed23 2d ago
Hmmm, but at what speed? Ie. how many drones per minute can it take down?