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It seems that more countries will use drones in warfare, given the frequency with which the US is using them.

I was wondering what are the counters to drones? Can they be fought with fighters, or be tracked with missile defense systems, or something else. Given their size, they'd be hard to track by radar.

What do you think?
 
It seems that more countries will use drones in warfare, given the frequency with which the US is using them.

I was wondering what are the counters to drones? Can they be fought with fighters, or be tracked with missile defense systems, or something else. Given their size, they'd be hard to track by radar.

What do you think?

our pakistani brothers might help us in this regard :lol:
 
It seems that more countries will use drones in warfare, given the frequency with which the US is using them.

I was wondering what are the counters to drones? Can they be fought with fighters, or be tracked with missile defense systems, or something else. Given their size, they'd be hard to track by radar.

What do you think?
Honestly the "conventional" drones ie non-stealth UAVs/UCAVs the likes zipping over Pakistan and Afghanistan like the Reaper and Predator are incredibly easy to track and destroy if nessercary with SAMs or a2a missiles launched from wither a fighter a/c or even a helo.

In the context of Pakistan as far as I know Pakistan can track them but for political reasons cannot "touch" them.
 
It seems that more countries will use drones in warfare, given the frequency with which the US is using them.

I was wondering what are the counters to drones? Can they be fought with fighters, or be tracked with missile defense systems, or something else. Given their size, they'd be hard to track by radar.

What do you think?


Most armed drones are quite big and can be shot down like an aircraft. There are some stealth UAVs under development as well.

Here a video from the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia: A RAF Mig 29 shoots down a Georgian UAV.

 
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It seems that more countries will use drones in warfare, given the frequency with which the US is using them.

I was wondering what are the counters to drones? Can they be fought with fighters, or be tracked with missile defense systems, or something else. Given their size, they'd be hard to track by radar. What do you think?



General characteristics: MQ-9 Reaper

Crew: 0 onboard, 2 in ground station
Length: 36 ft 1 in (11 m)
Wingspan: 65 ft 7 in (20 m)

About as hard to track on radar as this

pakistan-bus1.jpg
 
Drones are highly sophisticated killing machines, even not detected by radar ,but not hard or impossible to kill these unmanned combat air vehicle by China, Russia, Pakistan, Even Iran hunted down a number of US drones have captured a much bigger and more sophisticated CIA stealth drone, an RQ-170 Sentinel. Can be easily hunted what ever size and type they are but if there are no back door political deals of corrupt Pakistani politicians.The world most advanced fastest latest us x47b can fly from air craft carrier and even used for refueling and can use all kind of weapons from invisible location but cant resist against carrier killing weapons the one with china and may be Russia but china already got best anti carrier and anti x47b weapons more advanced stealth is coming soon, along UCAV ,china already have similar to US laser weapon capable of shooting unmanned aerial vehicles from a range of just less than 3 miles and capability of Drone detection and jamming signals to destroy them. China have technology which figures out how to intercept satellite signals to specific equipment and Predator used unencrypted data.The laser's beam can shoot down a drone traveling as fast as 600 miles per hour tracking the drones with sensors used and destroying the aircraft using a high-powered, fiber-optic laser capability to detect, track, engage and defeat dynamic targets at tactically significant ranges. Electromagnetic Radiation Laser saturation of optics/CCD sensors Laser burning critical components Microwave disabling critical electronic,s GPS jamming ,Decoy emitters of microwave and IR radiation, Kinetic energy systems Confusion, logistical and information warfare techniques, High flying Party balloons with aluminum foil reflectors, Spoofing fake radio signals to take over control of drone Intercepting radio Attacking drone energy supply, fuel supply, battery supply route lines, Small arms weapons Small-Medium SAM systems Jamming of drone communication systems.
 
JF17 can't fly that high and F-16 killing drones is a classic oxymoron :woot:

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jf-17 radar is not as advanced as F-16 has...
well drones dont fly too high...
they can just to be detected...
it is a difficult part..
once they are detected u can hit it with any sort of weapon....
U can also intersept its signals and control it your selves..
same what iran had done with US high altitude flying drong RQ-7....
:cheers:
 
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