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Friday Fun Thread for July 25, 2025

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Why are there not loitering counter-drones above troop movements in Ukraine? I’m seeing footage of surveillance drones with high-fidelity video recording, zooming in 16x or 32x onto targets. What’s stopping the development of drones with video recording that feeds into AI and surveils for incoming enemy drones? Ai should be able to determine if something is a drone from visual signature + movement. Then you’d simply have to equip it with some kind of birdshot or have it launch a smaller drone.

Search time is directly proportional to range. The more you zoom, the longer it takes to scan the whole field of possible approaches, and the more data you’re funneling to your GPU.

How far away do you want to make the decision? How much of the image needs to show a drone before the AI flags it? How closely does the countermeasure need to get to secure a kill? What’s the false alarm rate?

It’s probably possible. It’s definitely not trivial, and I would not want to be the guy testing it out in the field.