The Air Force already has experience with such situations dating back to World War II (when the Air Force was still part of the Army....), and a solution that simply requires modernization. Gunnery systems used on bombers and aerial gunships throw out rounds in a "shotgun" dispersal pattern. A target may evade some, but won't evade all. And with radar tracking and guidance, target acquisition and guidance is easier than doing it manually. From miles out.
The military has no police powers over civilians within the US, off military installations. That is a Hollywood fiction in movies and TV shows. A wide-dispersal energy weapon could bring down a drone, without collaterral damage from spent bullets dropping to the ground.
Accutually, I was in the Air Force, and on a bomber crew. And even we were not authorized to fly over Area 51. Unless you are assigned there, you don't go there. As for civilians intruding on the ground. Signs are posted along the outer fenceline, that the use of deadly force is authorized. Feel free to put it to the test....
Throwing down the gauntlet and daring them to pick it up, is a poor example of "descretion"....
I'd rather get to fly one of their drones. Compared to their capabilities, the most advanced and expensive drones available to civilians, are "toy grade"....Seriously...........I was not serious. Notice at at least 2 Haha's........in my post....
JOKE! Lighten up.............
Having said that.............If I could offer up my quad for target practice to witness an F-16 or better throw it into afterburners and scorch my lil bird. I would. Just for the experience.
Bill
I knew a few F-4 jocks. But I preferred my seat in a B-52.Well if we are talking "Druthers"
How about the back seat of an ole F-4 Phantom......................I loved watching those things belch smoke and do low level passes..........!
Sometime those toy grade drones are sneakier than those multi-million dollar drones. Like the old British "Mosquito" bomber, treetop entry and fast treetop exit.
I've long had a fascination with American and British combat aircraft of World War II, and the enginuity that was applied to adapting them to various purposes and missions. I'm following up on that practice, with toy-grade quads. Seeing what the result was, when the American P-51 Mustang fighter was repowered with the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. You could call it a personal ambition of mine. Call it a personal ambition of mine to push them to the limit.
