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Old May 31st 06, 06:27 PM posted to rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.military.naval,sci.military.naval
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Default Defense against UAV's

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A swarm of highly autonomous UAVs (perhaps better viewed as a swarm of
ultra cheap cruise missiles accompanied by some stealthy UAVs with good
sensor suites) launched on a 'kill everything that floats and
resembles a warship'' need not. The swarm flies silently (no


Try launch at night and attack anything that is between 2 and 150
degrees warmer than the sea. The Iranians would destroy the odd Iraqi
or Saudi car but that may not worry them. The upper limit stops the
second wave from attacking the same targets are the first wave.

Andrew Swallow