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Post by neil on Apr 12, 2024 14:56:12 GMT
Here's a recent video on the use of aerial combat drones in Ukraine, which I think has a lot of lessons for Blue Planet. After all, drones are everywhere in that setting but are much less common in the real world. A couple of headlines: - Drones will be everywhere, making stealth and concealment much harder.
- As a result, counter-drone defence will be a key part of tactics, much like camouflage is now. That could be shooting down drones, anti-drone drones, jamming, hacking, and concealment from above.
- There's no hard line between guided weapons, loitering munitions, or drones.
- Drones are cheap and defence is hard. That leads to attacks with swarms of drones that overwhelm the defender (too many to track, or too many to shoot down).
- Even consumer-grade drones are good enough, if you can strap a grenade to the or just use them for surveillance.
What do others think about the use of drones in Blue Planet, both in combat and more generally? I can see them being extremely useful in search-and-rescue missions, scientific surveys, general surveillance and information gathering. Even if you can't access a town's IoT camera grid, a few camera drones connected to some off-the-shelf face recognition software could make it much easier to find people.
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Post by Pawel on Apr 12, 2024 15:09:46 GMT
Here's a recent video on the use of aerial combat drones in Ukraine, which I think has a lot of lessons for Blue Planet. After all, drones are everywhere in that setting but are much less common in the real world. A couple of headlines: - Drones will be everywhere, making stealth and concealment much harder.
- As a result, counter-drone defence will be a key part of tactics, much like camouflage is now. That could be shooting down drones, anti-drone drones, jamming, hacking, and concealment from above.
- There's no hard line between guided weapons, loitering munitions, or drones.
- Drones are cheap and defence is hard. That leads to attacks with swarms of drones that overwhelm the defender (too many to track, or too many to shoot down).
- Even consumer-grade drones are good enough, if you can strap a grenade to the or just use them for surveillance.
What do others think about the use of drones in Blue Planet, both in combat and more generally? I can see them being extremely useful in search-and-rescue missions, scientific surveys, general surveillance and information gathering. Even if you can't access a town's IoT camera grid, a few camera drones connected to some off-the-shelf face recognition software could make it much easier to find people.
Oh yeah, you can't go wrong with mass use of drones and remotes in Blue Planet. I suppose the only aspect of the setting that slightly hinders drone use is its rather hostile environment - the limiting nature of underwater comms or the patch CommCore availability during storms. Even high winds can render non-military flying drones useless - this is also a problem for cetacean telepresence on land, I feel. So yeah, the Storm Belt tends to keep things a little bit low tech from time to time, at least in my campaigns. |
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Post by mrgroknroll on Apr 13, 2024 16:57:14 GMT
The other thing to consider is the still limited industrial capacity on Poseidon. As far as I grok it, there's the (at least potential) capacity to produce anything that can be produced back in the Sol system, but not necessarily in big numbers. So (throwaway) drone swarms might be limited to really reach people and enterprises and than also have a lag between uses to build up the numbers again. But drones will have an impact  |
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