If the Ukraine war should have taught us anything by now, it’s that this is gonna require a lot more than a fucking net
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@jalefkowit To be fair, they do say it's meant for group 1 (Mavic etc size) drones, which nets can be quite effective against. Ukraine covered thousands of miles of road with fishing nets, and by all accounts I've seen, it was worth it. OTOH, needing to buy a second drone to make a hole in the sunshade or net doesn't seem like a high bar for an adversary going after a hundred million dollar asset…
@jalefkowit I was just listening to a similar take and thinking "if only we'd stayed meaningfully involved with Ukraine's defense, we'd be so much further ahead on drone defense..." Ah well. What's $10b in damage, eh?
@jalefkowit we regret to inform you that the netting is vanadium imbued Kevlar and into expensive to produce in bulk. Initial testing by Navy Air Test and Evaluation Squadron VX-9 “Vampires” were inconclusive as the netting would was too small for their larger, carrier based F-35Cs