Flamethrower drones would be the end of human soldiers in combat, right?

[dasherHampton]

Armored drones that fly low enough to avoid detection and carry a payload of extremely flammable liquid with the means to ignite it. They would seek out groups of human soldiers and incinerate them.

What's the defense against that?

 

[IronWing]

 

[Chaotic42]

EZ:

Flame Shield - Final Fantasy VI - Caves of Narshe

www.cavesofnarshe.com

 

[Indus]

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Ammonium bicarbonate makes things fire retardant as well.. if I remember my chemistry from college well.

But that's not something you'd want troops to wear, breathe or bathe in..

Armored drones that fly low enough to avoid detection and carry a payload of extremely flammable liquid with the means to ignite it. They would seek out groups of human soldiers and incinerate them.

What's the defense against that?

APV's??

Or if you're rich enough like Bruce Wayne..

 

[Red Squirrel]

They already have drones that are rigged with explosives (grenades?) and they explode when 2 wires make contact. They crash it into the target which pushes the two wires together and boom.

It's crazy to think how much this could evolve over the years though, like drones that can just drop grenades. Drop like 10 of them in a line and have multiple drones doing the same thing could create some pretty strategic explosions of buildings and personnel.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't believe in "undetectable". It just needs to be worked on, and maybe every company has a computer controlled "shield" that reacts to drone detection. Maybe a machinegun that automatically deploys. That'll then be counteracted by better drone technique, and that'll be counteracted by better defense, rinse, repeat. Same as it's always been.

 

[Pohemi]

Also...the anti-drone shoulder-mounted rifle/cannons they already have. The trick with that is someone has to constantly be spotting for the drones so they can hit it before it gets close. I'm not sure what the range of those guns is.

 

[Greenman]

Armored drones that fly low enough to avoid detection and carry a payload of extremely flammable liquid with the means to ignite it. They would seek out groups of human soldiers and incinerate them.

What's the defense against that?

Shotgun to start. A street sweeper aimed in the general direction of the drone will most likely take it down.

 

[WelshBloke]

Mini AA shoulder mounted flak launchers with laser targetting!

 

[K1052]

Shotgun to start. A street sweeper aimed in the general direction of the drone will most likely take it down.

This is way more difficult in practice.

 

[Greenman]

This is way more difficult in practice.

Depends on how stealthily the drone is, what the terrain is like, and whose running the streetsweeper. Personally I'd always want to be on the drone side of that engagement where a loss equates to "darn it".

 

[K1052]

Depends on how stealthily the drone is, what the terrain is like, and whose running the streetsweeper. Personally I'd always want to be on the drone side of that engagement where a loss equates to "darn it".

Seen lots of videos of Russians trying to do this in Ukraine. It...does not mostly seem to work out for them. Also the problem of there being likely multiple FPVs in the same ares:

 

[sdifox]

 

[Greenman]

Seen lots of videos of Russians trying to do this in Ukraine. It...does not mostly seem to work out for them. Also the problem of there being likely multiple FPVs in the same ares:



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Anything is possible in fantasy warfare.

 

[gorobei]

Ukrainian forces have already developed a fragmenting round for ak type rifles. the round separates into 6 or 7 pieces (possibly radially ie orange slices) and works well at ranges far enough to give you some reaction time/margin of error. they have already ruled out shotguns as they dont have the impact at range to take out the small drones in real world usage. generally beats the 2 or 3 00buck shot in a vinyl shrinkwrap sleeve improvised ak round the russian soldiers came up with.

flame throwers are generally not worth the trouble. you need a pressurized tank (ton of weight) a fuel tank (even more weight) and an ignition system. the ww2 ones were generally the first target to get focus fired on with the attendant explosion when the pressure tank was hit.

the baba yaga could potentially carry the weight of a pressure tank, but it would be slow and vulnerable.

 

[skyking]

this is the one you don't see coming

unless you are the Kwisatz Haderach

 

[balloonshark]

Best defense would be to run and live to fight another day.

 

[nakedfrog]

Perhaps some form of electronic countermeasures.

 

[dank69]

Drone hunting drones.

 

[lxskllr]

Drone hunting drones.

Then we'll just run simulations, with simulated casualties, and execute the correct amount of people. Nice clean war, and if the casualties can be picked rather than random, we could run a war for a good decade or more, and lose absolutely nothing aside from some electricity to power the computers.

 

[mikeymikec]

FWIW, flamethrower use against humans is banned by the Geneva Convention.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Cluster bomb carrying drones would be more effective

 

[Charmonium]

Hence the term "cluster f***."

 

[Charmonium]

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Testudo formation - for "tortoise."

edit: Haha, I just googled that. Hail wikipedia.