What caliber for drone?
The Navy is developing smart mini missiles to take out drones.
5 Responses to “What caliber for drone?”
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January 17th, 2017 at 8:05 pm
The article says the Navy wants to outfit the Enterprise with them. The only problem with that is the Enterprise has been inactive since 2013, and is in the process of being dismantled for scrap.
January 17th, 2017 at 9:09 pm
No, it says they want it on ships LIKE big E.
January 17th, 2017 at 9:13 pm
Divemedic, I suspect that the Navy means that they want to use them on the next Enterprise, the second of the Ford class currently under construction.
January 18th, 2017 at 12:08 am
I’m amused by the reference made in the article to 20 and 40 CALIBER rounds. Don’t think that’s quite what they meant…
January 18th, 2017 at 1:40 pm
It used to be thought that that although US carriers would be taken out first with nuclear weapons in a Soviet all-out attack, US subs guaranteed reprisals bad enough to avoid that scenario ever happening.
What does it take to make an aircraft carrier inoperable? A small hit on a catapult? A disabled elevator? A plane wrecked on board during takeoff or landing?
I can see drones doing those things. And I don’t know diddly about carriers. What would a specialist see as a weak point on a carrier, on a carrier group, on the planes aboard a carrier? The days of successfully sailing multibillion dollar ships into harm’s way with a large chance of both mission success and returning home may be ending.