TO COUNTER SWARM DRONE ATTACKS

Drones have become common in modern times. From photography, to delivering goods. to mapping terrains, to military applications they seem to have become ubiquitous and in fact indispensable. I will talk more about the military applications in my concept below:

Since the Drones are cheap to procure or manufacture and can be used effectively against enemy assets, it has become the go to weapon for the armies round the world. Many are small, lightweight and are made of non-metallic materials which make them almost invisible to radar systems. But even the small size can carry a lethal punch and destroy or incapacitate large installations, infrastructure and flying machines.

As we have seen in the recent wars in Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Pakistan, etc., drones can be deadly as the deterrent against them may not be very effective.

In particular a swarm of drones (hundreds of them) can effectively overwhelm a bigger and better equipped enemy if used with other weapons. While a cheap drone costs a few 100 to a few 1000 dollars, the weapons needed to deter them may cost tens of thousands of dollars.

So what is the effective way to counter these lethal swarm drone attacks?

My concept is to use a swarm of drones against the enemy swarm. Fitted with “Friend or Foe” AI electronic signals, these will effectively counter drone swarms. The F or F signal is essential to prevent the drones from attacking each other. They can be fitted with explosives to detonate on contact or crash into the enemy drone to trigger their explosive and bring it down or fitted with light guns to bring down the enemy drones. They can also be fitted with booster rockets, which will speed up the drones to high speed and crash on to the enemy drone once the enemy is identified and is close enough.

This concept will be more effective and cheaper than using SAMS which are very much more expensive, or using electronic jamming signals which may not neutralize all the enemy drones or using laser systems which may also miss a few drones. Even if a single drone goes through the “iron dome” its effect will be devastating as was seen recently in Israel. 

If the above concept taken forward, we may be shortly be seeing “Dogfights” among drones like fights between fighter jets.