randy wrote:I wonder how well someone could get to the unit using a slow crawl (I'm talking Carlos Hatchcock/VC Sapper slow here) and disable it?
GMTA, and not only, I suspect, is the detecting unit severely speed-limited, I'm sure it has a detection range measured in feet.
So when some ghillie-clad caterpillar gets close enough, a few shots, and it's broken.
This would be effective indoors as a trap, but I doubt the camera could pick up movement against a deeper background than shown on the video.
pits funneling to pungi sticks, trip wires, snares... oil on water in pits/moats that can be lit. steaming piles of excrement, refuse and animal carcasses.
"The Guncounter: More fun than a barrel of tattooed knife-fighting chain-smoking monkey butlers with drinking problems and excessive gambling debts!"
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic;" Justice Story
henrybowman wrote:Well I think the sentry gun would down the UAV.
Proooooooooooobably not. Making a sentry gun capable of shooting things gets exponentially harder when you're dealing with speeds beyond "walking."
henrybowman wrote:
Bullspit wrote:In a SHTF scenario where this system could be deployed, the flammables would be worth their weight in women, gold and food.
Too valuable to waste!
That is true, that being said it could be used with home made Bio Diesel or Alcohol based fuel.
But with remote/ auto operated sentry guns it would be a very handy.
If you are expecting an imminent attack, I could see it. Under advance notice, setting one up for area denial could be useful. But long-term? Waste of resources.
henrybowman wrote:Not if it had FLIR....
When you go to that expense, you're better off mounting a thermal scope on an organic sentry's rifle.
Jericho941 wrote:We live in a society trained through pop culture to find the most heavily-defended spot and raid it. To quote Barney in Half-Life 2: "With all that security, there must be something good in there!" Hell, there were sentry guns and laser tripmines on that level.
You're better off going with inhospitable terrain and finding other ways to make the area look both uninviting and unimportant.
IIRC, the Brits used that to effect to protect a staging area. Heavily camouflaged and undefended. A few miles away, a heavily camouflaged field (with a few flaws showing decoys) and heavily defended with AAA, barrage balloons, etc. The Luftwaffe expended a lot of sorties and lost several aircraft going after an empty decoy area (it's defended, must be valuable) and were so focused on it they never spotted the actual site that was relatively speaking next door.
...even before I read MHI, my response to seeing a poster for the stars of the latest Twilight movies was "I see 2 targets and a collaborator".
