Thread 64470337

What if they had FPV drones at WACO?

If the National guard didnt have jammers, than the expensive armored gas canister would get ass raped, same for the random atf agents.
Then theyd probably call in air strike or helicopter Attack.
Then One or two Attack helos might have gotten raped by fpvs but Who knows

>>64470346
You can't shoot at helicopter, that's federal!

>>64470337 (OP)
The feds' EW would would record their frequencies and input into their jammers, making the FPVs worthless like ISIS' drones at the Battle of Mosul.
You may now move the goalposts to your next fallback. I suggest fiber optics - they're the most popular cope right now.

The feds would probably respond to those by zapping the whole compound with HPMs to fry all electronics inside.

>>64470337 (OP)
IDK, but I think the first FPV fiber drone political assassination will lead to them being highly regulated.

>>64470346
I keep hearing that the air force is the next step up after SWAT, but it feels like US law enforcement has actually done pretty well against bullshit scenarios like a tank rampage or machine gun assault.

>>64470337 (OP)
SWAT would go in earlier and they'd get fucked without having a few days of chill time.

>>64470368
With prep time, would it be possible to program a drone that automatically homes in on signal jammers?

>>64470723
It's basically pure luck that the M60 wildin' out in san diego didn't require a hellfire missile

>>64470337 (OP)
they would make sick FPV vids

that being said 1993 was still early days in fpv only super technical rf/radio guys could run fpv

>>64471081
Of course, but keep in mind the technological difference and the skill differnce. The technological gap between a schizo's homemade blackpowder SMG and a professional's high end AR15 is nonexistent compared to the Marianas Trench gap between a schizo's homemade EW kit and a professional's EW kit.
I don't think larpers understand how the drone age widens the powergap instead of shrinking it.

>>64471102
Why didn't they just chase the M60 with other M60s from the same armory? Seems like the most expedient response.

>>64470368
Did they have much in the way of EW back in the 90s outside of systems like the Prowler and the Raven? I always thought ground based EW was a fairly recent concept

>>64470368
fpv frequencies in ukraine change almost daily.

>>64470337 (OP)
>>64470368
They should've had a nonmagnetic shaped charge mine in their driveway for when the APC rolled up

The Davidians were pussy, at one point they had the feds pinned down and the glowniggers begged for mercy, so they let them go. They seemed to be deliberately not slaughtering the scum. If the alphabet boys had suffered two dozen dead it would likely have make the Davidians more popular among the public and then maybe things would have turned out differently either due to the fuck up and press coverage getting the guys involved pulled off duty unceremoniously and replaced or making them retarded and angry enough to go in guns blazing instead of using arson. There has never been a single instance wherein no greasing a fed saved anybody.

So with that context out of the way, they probably wouldn't use them to actually kill the glownogs despite them richly deserving it.

>>64470337 (OP)
Then they would have used them to set themselves alight.

>>64471137
I think where the situation reverses is lasers, you can get shit which will instantly destroy the sight of anybody you point it near for cheap by importing industrial strength shit from Asia. Due to treaties and unwritten agreements the governments of the world don't yet keep that shit on the shelf and ready for action. It wouldn't be hard for them to get some basic opaque helmets with cameras to get around it. However if they weren't expecting it then several to several dozen glowniggers will no longer have functional eyeballs.

>>64470337 (OP)
national guard would've taken over and leveled the buildings with helicopters

>>64471081
Theoretically yes, practically speaking it isnt likely for at least a few years and may never be good while being ubiquitous instead of proprietary and over priced. Autonomous drone flight is totally a thing, but its pretty much limited to babby tier when it comes to navigating obstacles. Fine for the more typical uses like deliveries, fly too high for trees, plot routes with waypoints that avoid high rises, land in a open space, pretty easy. The easy part is getting the drone to know where its headed(the thing screaming in radio). The hard part is the terminal phase where it needs to avoid obstacles and actually get close enough to the emitter to damage it. Something like a treeline is easy enough for a human operated FPV to handle but a super simple radar hunting drone is just gonna fly in a straight line and detonate on a tree or whatever regardless of attack angle and that isnt even considering basic countermeasures like mesh. Id think a radar hunting geofenced grenade dropper might work okish without being too difficult to setup with current tech/methods.