I'd help... by programming a drone swarm system. Imagine you have 4-10 drones flying in a flock and sharing intel as they fly. They'd be armed with some sort of gun or cannon, and can fire without having vision on the target themselves, but rather rely on the live data of others.
They could be controlled either by a pilot or a operate automatically - the pilot would assign orders (similar to how RTS games work) and mark targets for kill, ally, civilian or unknown. In his view the data they collect is aggregated, so they might have some kind of see-through video stream.
While all of this is going on, the data collected will be used for machine learning, so that at some point they can operate fully on their own. And as an intermediate step: The drones only have to be instructed when they have an encounter.
But I'd implement a special mode, just in case: MASSACRE - for the given time, kill every human in sight immediately and reject all communication outside of their swarm. Deployed deep within enemy territory, the damage they cause is limited to hostile forces.
Another layers of complexity come with hostile hacking attempts, communication disruption measures, other hostile drones, espionage and theft. For the software related aspects I'd need a team of ~10 people and 6-18 months. It would be of challenging difficulty in several domains, but the technology necessary already exists and works somewhat well enough.
I am a Libertarian Hungarian/German, but the extermination of communism has priority above all else. So if you want to invent new modern military level weaponry against CHINA, and have the funding, call me. ;)
Let's start with some memes and stuff. Maybe the murder drones can wait, eh? We have a bad history of a president killing american citizens with drones, so its understandable why you wouldn't know about it. I like the enthusiasm, but Sarah and John Conner stopped Skynet, so I think we are good.
Oh come on. One low level EMP Strike would clear the swarm. Then you're done. If you didn't want to do that? well a net of piano wire would make any airborne drone toast. Think tactically instead of strategically. I'm not even including accidents like a tornado or a hurricane....or a downdraft.
EMP is not an easily accessible technology, so their usage is limited. While they'd probably be effective, the cost to damage ratio might be quite bad.
Setting up piano wires only to eventually entangle drones is quite bothersome and probably useless - especially if they are detected before they do anything. It would catch one drone at best, before others are alerted. The total territory you'd need to wire, and that at a high altitude would make that near impossible.
Tornadoes, hurricanes, downdrafts are rather rare phenomenons. Weather intel could counter these issues - but sensors might provide sufficient warning as well.
I'd help... by programming a drone swarm system. Imagine you have 4-10 drones flying in a flock and sharing intel as they fly. They'd be armed with some sort of gun or cannon, and can fire without having vision on the target themselves, but rather rely on the live data of others.
They could be controlled either by a pilot or a operate automatically - the pilot would assign orders (similar to how RTS games work) and mark targets for kill, ally, civilian or unknown. In his view the data they collect is aggregated, so they might have some kind of see-through video stream.
While all of this is going on, the data collected will be used for machine learning, so that at some point they can operate fully on their own. And as an intermediate step: The drones only have to be instructed when they have an encounter.
But I'd implement a special mode, just in case: MASSACRE - for the given time, kill every human in sight immediately and reject all communication outside of their swarm. Deployed deep within enemy territory, the damage they cause is limited to hostile forces.
Another layers of complexity come with hostile hacking attempts, communication disruption measures, other hostile drones, espionage and theft. For the software related aspects I'd need a team of ~10 people and 6-18 months. It would be of challenging difficulty in several domains, but the technology necessary already exists and works somewhat well enough.
I am a Libertarian Hungarian/German, but the extermination of communism has priority above all else. So if you want to invent new modern military level weaponry against CHINA, and have the funding, call me. ;)
Let's start with some memes and stuff. Maybe the murder drones can wait, eh? We have a bad history of a president killing american citizens with drones, so its understandable why you wouldn't know about it. I like the enthusiasm, but Sarah and John Conner stopped Skynet, so I think we are good.
Everything can be used for evil. That should be no major concern.
Skynet was a fictional failure. We learned from that. We can do better!
Checks name. Backs out slowly.
Oh come on. One low level EMP Strike would clear the swarm. Then you're done. If you didn't want to do that? well a net of piano wire would make any airborne drone toast. Think tactically instead of strategically. I'm not even including accidents like a tornado or a hurricane....or a downdraft.
I will consider these potentials flaws.
EMP is not an easily accessible technology, so their usage is limited. While they'd probably be effective, the cost to damage ratio might be quite bad.
Setting up piano wires only to eventually entangle drones is quite bothersome and probably useless - especially if they are detected before they do anything. It would catch one drone at best, before others are alerted. The total territory you'd need to wire, and that at a high altitude would make that near impossible.
Tornadoes, hurricanes, downdrafts are rather rare phenomenons. Weather intel could counter these issues - but sensors might provide sufficient warning as well.
See? We are getting somewhere! It's a good start!