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I we will see a little arms race of drones and anti drones until there is a new balance. Rheinmetal already have a anti drone cannon module for Boxer afv which the uk could add to the order. Drones have to emit a radio signal so will be vulnerable to being tracked and ecm.
Small drones that are hard to see and hit paired with guided munitions and suicide drones will be tricky.
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Drones have to emit a radio signal so will be vulnerable to being tracked and ecm.
Not necesarily. Sure, its much simpler to manually control a drone in on a target but its trivial to code consumer drones to operate semi autonomously with return to base conditions especially if targetting static targets or doing reconaissance.
I'm not up to speed on recent developments in kinetic anti-drone measures but I know that the US and Iraqi military found it extremely difficult to shoot down consumer drones with standard weapons when Islamic State started using them to drop grenades over the last 8 years or so.
Stonehedge
And therein lies the real issue. Air superiority is all. No ground troops are secure in the absence of control of the skies. And with drones, air superiority is a very hard thing to achieve.