Can we build an unmanned aerial vehicle to fly into a swarm of insects to zap them? Well what if that insect swarm is not actually organic but tiny little robotic micro-mechanical flying devices with explosive charges or even bio-logical lethal or non-lethal weapons? Scared yet? Well you should be because the new high-tech modern battlespace will be nothing like it is today? And if you are a brigade of troops you are like a sitting duck for robotic swarming technologies? How can you fight them off? Well here is an idea; An unmanned aerial vehicle interceptor is sent into the swarm and it acts like an organic bat, which can eat up to 1000 insects per hour. Using these strategies its little on board artificial intelligent computer system plots the most perfect course to get all the little micro-mechanic devices or organic insects, whichever they are? We cannot know in the future if the enemy will use organic insects controlling them to serve their will or rather design, make, manufacture and launch micro-mechanical robotic insects to do his dirty work. If micro-mechanical devices we can use a couple of different strategies? Use NASA Aerogel to snare them in a net, fly a long and vacuum them up or drop chafe which can be later hit with a laser or activated by a pulse weapon on the UAV to fry all the electronics immediately. We must consider during the choosing of strategies if we want the little devices for our own use later to recycle robotic parts or if we do not need them. We must also decide if the enemy is using biological weapons on little stingers on these units in which case a one-way suicide single mission UAV with a pulse detonation device would be better suited. Never the less this will be one strategy we need to take out incoming swarms of micro-mechanical weapons. So, consider this in 2006. |
