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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nancy Mace said drones could be from outer space[/quote]

Nancy Mace could be from outer space.[/quote]

Nancy Mace gets better intel and capability briefings than you.

Space delivered drone swarms are current-level tech right now. Take a typical ICBM, either Russian or Chinese, remove the warhead bus, replace it with a re-entry module with a hundred drones installed in it.

The rocket launches, follows it’s ballistic trajectory towards target, the re-entry module enters the atmosphere above the target, deploys a parachute to slow down, and all the drones are turned on, powered up, and then ejected out of the module to fly to their targets.  The re-entry module floats down under parachute, lands in the ocean and immediately sinks never to be seen again.  The drone swarm does whatever it’s assigned to do until they deplete their batteries, then they fly out over water, land in the water, and sink, erasing any trace of their existence.

This is how you get a drone swarm anywhere in the world without needing terrestrial control assets in place.

Nancy Mace is a lot smarter than you and whatever idiot journalist wrote that quote. [/quote]

Wow.  You should write fiction.  For one thing, an ICBM from Russia or China would be detected.  For another, getting a payload of a swarm of drones to survive the extreme conditions of ICBM launch and re-entry would be a challenge in and of itself, and even the deployment mechanism for releasing a swarm of drones at the exact altitude and position needed at hypersonic velocities would need its own research program separate from ground targets or airbursts.  Then, coordinating the swarm for any useful purpose would require advanced algorithms and near-realtime communications and all of the logistics for that (satellites etc).  Is the military researching advances in what we can do with ICBMs?  Sure.  Is the military researching advances in what we can do with drone swarms?  Definitely.  But to suggest that China and Russia are deploying drone swarms over the US via ICBM without the launches being detected is straight up ludicrous.[/quote]

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